[Thomas Frantz]

So after doing some digging and experimentation, my assistant figured it out. It turns out that there is a subtle reference to this in the tech manual and if you drill into it you learn that this is indeed a metadata issue. Without intact and properly formatted metadata, the recorder/camera won’t recognize the files copied onto the card.

Fortunately Panasonic provides a utility called “AVCCAM Restorer” and instructions on a CD with the HMR10. After he rendered our edited Vegas file using the right file format and ran the utility, he could get a file edited in Vegas to play from the HRM10 and the AC-160.

Thanks a lot for all the assistance. It was the group think that helped us zero in on the solution.

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[Thomas Frantz]

I think Russ is on to something with his comment that just putting the video into the right folder isn’t enough. I wonder if there’s a way to trick the index/database??

Regardless, here’s what MediaInfo pulled from one of the SD cards that has only video recorded from the AC 160. I could swear we’ve tried settings similar to these, but could try again.

General
ID/String : 1 (0x1)
CompleteName : G:PRIVATEAVCHDBDMVSTREAM�0000.MTS
CompleteName_Last : G:PRIVATEAVCHDBDMVSTREAM�0064.MTS
Format : BDAV
Format/Info : Blu-ray Video
FileSize/String : 11.5 GiB
Duration/String : 1mn 5s
OverallBitRate_Mode/String : VBR
OverallBitRate/String : 1499 Mbps
OverallBitRate_Maximum/String : 24.0 Mbps

Video
ID/String : 4113 (0x1011)
MenuID/String : 1 (0x1)
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format_Profile : High@L4.0
Format_Settings_CABAC/String : Yes
Format_Settings_RefFrames/String : 4 frame2
Format_Settings_GOP : M=4, N=28
CodecID : 27
Duration/String : 1mn 5s
BitRate_Mode/String : VBR
BitRate/String : 1440 Mbps
BitRate_Maximum/String : 20.9 Mbps
Width/String : 1280 pixel3
Height/String : 720 pixel3
DisplayAspectRatio/String : 16:9
FrameRate/String : 59.940 fps3
ColorSpace : YUV
ChromaSubsampling : 4:2:0
BitDepth/String : 8 bit3
ScanType/String : Progressive
Bits-(Pixel*Frame) : 26.061
StreamSize/String : 11.0 GiB (95%)

Audio
ID/String : 4352 (0x1100)
MenuID/String : 1 (0x1)
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Format_Settings_ModeExtension : CM (complete main)
Format_Settings_Endianness : Big
CodecID : 129
Duration/String : 1mn 5s
BitRate_Mode/String : CBR
BitRate/String : 384 Kbps
Channel(s)/String : 2 channel2
ChannelPositions : Front: L R
SamplingRate/String : 48.0 KHz
BitDepth/String : 16 bit3
Compression_Mode/String : Lossy
Video_Delay/String : -50ms
StreamSize/String : 3.00 MiB (0%)

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[Thomas Frantz]

Right. Thanks. I probably should have been a little more descriptive….

The size of the garage door is growing too. So scaling/cropping the logo addresses part of it, but because the garage door changes size as you approach it, I can’t use a full frame wipe as a transition.

Is there a way to scale the transition so that it’s the same size as the opening garage door as it gets bigger as the camera approaches it?

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