Sanyo Xacti HD1000 vs. QuickTime (green video)

Export it as MPEG 4. The H.264 codec stays in there no matter what. Even exporting it as .mov, it still has the codec. try Mp4 to be on the safe side, but I'm almost sure the camera plays most of the popular QT formats.

Look at my previous post. For a more detailed description of how to fix the cam the RIGHT way, I think someone posted it further up.

I agree. Completely. Look at one of my earlier posts about getting iMovie HD for free if you already have 08.

Putting it in iMovie HD will fix its jumpiness.

iDVD

Actually, it was not my idea. Someone posted it above. I'm just spreading the word.

I think QT Player can't play Full HD unless you get Pro. Also, I notice that Full HD has 60 field's per second (no idea what a field per second is on a video camera) Maybe that's the problem? Use iMovie HD and it works fine.

Somewhere in there there is a .zip.gnu (some kind of compressed file) in there. That contains the components. Also, I'm not sure here, a part of the process may have something to do with an invisible file...

So far for me, what works is QT 7.2.1 (although newer versions also work. I need an old version for Slick) with the replaced component, no QT Pro, and iMovie HD '06. There are other ways, but if you are hopelessly lost, you can do it this way. I don't recommend upgrading to the newest QT though, since someone had a problem with that...

P.S. I have Leopard 10.5, not 10.5.1. I used to have 10.5.1, but I downgraded so Slick would work.

I think adgdata has thoroughly solved the problem. Good job, adgdata!

I have the Green Video and I've tried the above solutions:

- Installed the AVC1 Decoder
- Replaced the H.264 codec
- Installed the Pro Kit Update 4.5, and MPEG streamclip 1.9.1

During this process the videos went from Pure Green, to White, to "Can't open files on this computer", then back to Green, and now Green with periodic half-green interlaced/half-viewable but unusable frames.

Can anyone tell me what I should do? I have a lot of video from a friends wedding that she really wants and this is the camera that has it all. I can't lose the video.

Why insist on using iMovie 08 (at least with Tiger) when iMovie HD 5.0.2 works smoothly and seems to offer better editing than iMovie 08?

I have completed my first editing from a Xacti HD1000 and I still have to burn the video in a DVD. I understand that I can either:

- Export from iMovie 5.0.2 to iDVD and save the video as a disk image which I will then use Disk Utility to burn, or:

- Export to iDVD and use it to burn the DVD.

One of these two options (I forgot which) produces a DVD playable for TV viewing but that will not display on a Mac screen. The second option does the reverse. It may have to do with interlacing, needed on a TV but not on a computer.

Can someone kindly straighten me on the above?


I don't suppose that there is a third option allowing the same DVD to be used on both TVs and Macs?

I tried MPEG streamclip and it didn't work. The only thing that has worked nicely is iMovie HD. I don't know about the decoder and the pro kit update. I just swapped the h.264 and used iMovie HD.


Also, make sure you swapped the h.264 from the SANYO disk! I think earlier versions work, but why risk wasting time?

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My computer can't read ANY video DVD's! It reads data DVDs, but when I put a video DVD in, it spits it back out.

asdfagad, I read somewhere that "iDVD converts & lowers the resolution to 640x480 format but the DVD can be played on a TV set. (the Web definition is lower still at 320x240 pixels )
Using the Finder to burn the DVD allows better definitions, but restricts the DVD to computer display"