Todd Newman
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I couldn’t get MTS files to open with quicktime. You can? Am I missing something? Being able to output a different file completely in AVCHD from what is originally captured is big deal and not something that is offered in quicktime or any other of the production tools that I have found.
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It’s not immune. I just think that Panasonic would not do a raid 1, but sell us the P2 instead. I am with you on the whole idea of a raid, it’d be safer for sure.
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That’s a real drag! Sorry they were not able to grab any of it for you.
I think that the raid 1 comment should be looked at strongly at Panasonic, but I’ll bet they’d just push P2 instead. I’ve been told that formatting in camera instead of erasing at the computer is a better way to re-use these SD cards. I’ve been trying to work this way, all ok so far, but my day will come too.
Hang in there!
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Noah, It’s more a time factor for me not a space issue.
I finally came up with my own solution this weekend. You want more options for outputting directly from AVCHD .MTS files? This works, and there are tons of options! ” Wondershare Video Converter Pro for Mac”. It runs very well on the 8 core and will handle/convert 8 files at a time in the cue, so a process that was taking hours is reduced to minutes. Best money I ever spent on simple software. Now why has Apple or Panasonic, or someone not seen the need for this? Maybe the next release?
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Thanks. I have been doing that, but I still have to ingest my AVCHD files to their original, and they are huge. I am hoping to find a way to transcode from the AVCHD directly to an alternate format/size from the original captured file size. Hour and a half conferences recorded in 1080 are eating up too much of my resources in HD space, and all I need to produce at this point is a window for the client. To play back from the camera is another alternative, but that’s a really long process too. Maybe this HMC 150 is just the wrong way to approach long recordings?
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For what it’s worth, I have been using 8 of these cheap class 6 cards for a year with no problems https://www.meritline.com/pqi-16gb-sdhc-secure-digital-high-capacity-card-class-6-model-6aeg-016gpr01b—p-43927.aspx
I don’t expect them to be problem free forever, but cycling through all 8 as projects come and go gives each card less time in use and extends their life as compared to using one card over and over. I generally re-format the cards in the camera and not just erase the data from the cards and reuse.
I hope you get something working for you soon, it’s such a terrific little camera.
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Just this week my HMC 150 began producing “reset” TC digits. A very long week of all day conference recording and this was a hit an miss problem. Honestly this did not cause issue for this project, but I can see this being trouble in the future.
+1 on the issue.