Sanyo Xacti HD1000 vs. QuickTime (green video)

My SANYO XACTI HD1000 works fine with 1080p. Just downgrade Leopard to 10.5.0 and swap the H264 components (instructions are earlier on this page thanks to someone else). And put it in iMovie HD. It works. HaHA!

Get iMovie HD 6, not the stupid iMovie '08! If you already have '08, there is a free download of HD 6 somewhere on this site. I've seen it. For the link, go to www.geethree.com and click Info Regarding iMovie '08.

it comes with the SANYO on a disk somewhere.

I can't believe how awkward this process is. SHOCKING.

I have a setup that gives a pretty good workflow to
handle the HD1000 files:
As per other folks' earlier posts in this list:
I have regressed Quicktime h264 component to 7.1.6;
I'm running quicktime 7.4.5 overall;
installed the most recent revision of AVC1 0.7.6:
http://www003.upp.so-net.ne.jp/mycometg3/ ,
and with this setup on a MacBook Pro 2.4G Core 2 duo
running 10.5.2, I can play back the movies
shot on the camera, export them from Quicktime Pro,
and open/export them from MPEGStreamclip:

http://www.squared5.com/

As per the CAMERA's FIRMWARE: Something very
interesting happened in the past week, read closely:

I updated the firmware on the camera a few days ago
to 1.1.0 and this BROKE the entire setup,
which took about 5 hours yesterday to figure out.
It produced the 'first white frame syndrome'
on the movies mentioned earlier in this thread and
made it impossible to export from either
MPEGStreamclip or Quicktime Pro - the 'all black no
image' problem. I regressed the camera to
firmware version 1.0 , which is amazingly still available
here:

http://www.sanyo.de/products/digitalimaging/software_iframehd1000.asp?lg=E

and the footage the camera shoots is now
readable- and exportable- using my old setup
as detailed above- h26component 7.1.6,
Quicktime 7.4.5, avc1 0.7.6...

it seems that the firmware update changed the
header of the movie, or possibly the GOP format
of the files the camera is recording?

Just as a caveat, I am NOT using this setup to work
extensively with FC Express -
since I have FCP running on my G5 desktop-
though I do have FCE running on the laptop,
I have not gotten around to seriously testing it to
verify that it is able to handle all my
video formats and projects shot with other cameras.
To use the footage I am shooting on
the Xacti, I am converting it to acceptable quality
intermediate formats -flavors vary
according to need- using MPEGStreamclip.

Ok, I need help. I backed up the quicktimeh264.component file on my hard drive but I cannot seem to find the file on the xacti disc.

.I put in the xacti disc, launched the QT dmg file, and open package. I get one folder called "contents". That folder has 5 files, a QT.dst file and a "resources" folder.
"resources has a bunch of files and some .proj folders in various languages. The only pkg file there is a quicktime headers7.pkg folder. I cannot seem to find a /system folder or a quicktimeh264.component file on the xacti disc. Any suggestions?

Hotoru
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To better explain the method:
Clic the QT installer on the Xacti install disc (this should be Quicktime 7.1.6 and choose "Show Package Content" in the contextual menu.
Go to the System/Quicktime folder within that package and see the Quicktime H264 component "QuickTimeH264.component". Press command+I to see the component verison: it should be 7.1.6

@edkeller
I did most of what you recommendet except of regressing Quicktime H264 component to 7.1.6 on my MacPro. However, even after reinstalling firmware 1.0 on the Xacti, I am still facing severe problems: after rendering a new full HD clip recorded and imported into FCP, about every 3rd and 4th image is displayd greenish or otherwise distorted. I hesitate to downgrade to 7.1.6, since this created many trouble when I tried out a couple of days ago. :confused:

Of what I have gathered, we will have to wait on Apple to fix this issue.

Does anyone know if this 1080i issue is only with Sanyo video cameras,
or does everyone else (Sony/Canon/JVC/Panosonic) have this issue
with playback of 1080i videos?

The following link explains the matter: http://seansense.net/?p=35

I have rendered or better transcoded a so called "full HD" clip into Apple Intermediate 1.440 x 1.080 and now it can be edited in FCP without flaws while any square pixel format didn't work at all. As a major drawback compared to HDV, rendering took about 15x realtime on a MacPro (2008) 8 core 2.8 with laughable 7 -8 cores idle during rendering. 45 minutes for a 3 minutes clip - that's really a very poor performance!

iMovie 08 works perfectly -- no bugs or crashes -- and has done so since the 7.1 updates were installed last year.

Those having problems are almost always are using 10.5. 10.4.11 works perfectly. Never upgrade to a a next version of any OS for at least year.

If you are using 10.5 be sure you install the 8-series of updates to iM 08.

You must be an iM 06 user. You learned and are now mentally stuck on a horrible NLE.

I now use 08 more than I do FCP, Avid, or Premiere. Much faster.

i picked up a HD 1000 as well, i planned to shoot in 720p 60 fps mode but i am encountering a problem there.

after importing a 60s video it will be cut in half, missing the last 30 seconds. that happens to every movie recorded with 60 fps. if i change it to 30 fps everything works fine. can anyone explaint the behavior ?

thanks

I watched this thread closely and it was in fact the reason that I bought my MacBook Pro. I already had the HD1000, and was waiting to find a solution to edit with it. I brought my Mac home, replaced the QT file, and it worked. I was thrilled. I refuse to record at 720. It may be a minor difference, but 10 years from now I want to know I captured my son's memories in the highest quality I could with the camera.

Last weekend two things happened, and now I get the green screen again. My wife allowed the Mac to update, which brought QT to 7.5 from 7.4.6. I didn't know this was done. The next day I let Iphoto import my videos for the first time. Previously I brought them in from the memory card through Squared5. All of the sudden it doesn't work anymore. Gren screen galore.

When I found out that QT was updated, I replaced the component again, to no avail. I went as far as to Archive and Install my whole OS, which was the only way to step back to a previous version of QT. Still didn't work. Squared5 still cannot see a video, old or new. (I took them back out of Iphoto after the time required to generate thumbnails surpassed 1150 minutes.) Tonight I will try the avc1decoder, which surprisingly, I did not have to do before, but I just can't figure out what changed. I should be right back to how my system was when I started.

Sorry to hear from your problems.
We purchased Sanyo's Xacti 1000HD as an cheap alternative for underwater videography. Actually the UW case plus the Xacti is less expensive compared to an UW case for our HDV equipment.
However, in the meantime I have taken quite a lot of clips (not all UW) and sucessfully transferred it after editing with Final Cut Studio into various formats including iphone and BD-R. Here it goes:

look after apropriate codecs here: http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/finalcutstudio/

Within FCP we transcoded all clips into "apple intermediate codec". From there virtually all target formats are possible to transcode after editing.

Just use iMovie 06. It works better. Since you already have 08, you can get 06 for free at http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/imovieHD6.html legally.

No difference, but you can make the camera work on it by swapping the H.264 components with QT 7.1.3 or something old like that. To play it non-choppy, you have to import it into iMovie HD. Maybe because there is a built in compressor that compresses the PREVIEW, or you need QT Player Pro to play Full HD.