Importing from a Panasonic HDC TM700

Is there any news on when apple may put out an upgrade to accept the new format?

Alan, thanks for the Automator app. I don't know if anybody else has experienced this, but the script seems to hang occasionally on longer clips (over 2 GB?). I have successfully gotten it to wrap an entire 4GB clip with repeated attempts of quitting the Rewrap2M4V.app and rerunning it. Has anybody else seen a similar problem and is there a fix for this? I haven't yet tried the command from the command line to see if it also hangs there.

Thanks again Alan, you've helped to make my new TM700 a useful tool in 1080 60P.

-Keith

I haven't tried long clips, but I doubt Allans script has anything to do with file size.

Two points, his script must be in the Applications folder to work and you can't drop a folder on it. But, that would be an ez fix. Allan is this something you'll do, or should I try?

I'm surprised I'm will treat it as 60p. Normally I change the plist value. I wonder what will happen if you do moving fx. With 60p. It might only process every other frame.

Note, you do not want to use jes to deinterlaced! It is progressive video!

Remember you'll need to export every other frame (60i) to go to other devices. And, I find it only plays at about 25fps on my mbp. I'm going to take a sample and try on a new mbp. I'll bet it takes an I7 iMac to play a clip at 60fps.

I've noticed it hanging when dragging multiple clips. Both instances are probably due to the text output from ffmpeg exceeding a certain limit. I think I've fixed it; please grab the workflow again and try it.

As for the location of the Automator workflow, it should be able to be run from anywhere as long as ClipGrab is in the Applications folder.

I have started working on a self-contained Cocoa app. I hope to have it done within a week.

I'm trying to playback these converted files from the automator script on an xbox 360 and not having success. Streaming from Rivet on a mac mini. I can get a thumbnail on the xbox but it doesn't play. Anyone have any ideas?

I'm having the exact same problem -- the clips have no audio using your workflow. The AC3 stream does show up in QT, but no sound.

The video looks spectacular, though.

I'm getting the same spectacular video but no sound using the workflow. In my case I recorded in 2ch stereo but I'm not sure this has anything to do with it. The AC stream shows up in the QT info pane. I'm going to try a few experiments when I have more time to play with it.

Hi .... it has been several days since you last posted (ddt460) so how are things working out for you with iMovie and the new Panasonic HDC TM700? I am thinking about getting one of these camcorders also .... but I really want to use iMovie as well .....

if you have a moment to update here, it would be great ...

+Thank you ...+

I also tried Alan's automator workflow on a Panasonic GF1 AVCHD file and got no audio, plus some other problems mentioned above. However, I tried David S. suggestion (above) and tried ClipWrap2. I downloaded the trial version and it seemed to work perfectly. It unwraps the mts file and rewraps into a QT format without transcoding (it also has options for transcoding). It is VERY fast and there is no generational loss. It can be found here:

http://www.clipwrap.com/

Try the trial version and see if it works for you.

Dave

Thanks for the reply and a moment of your time .... really appreciate it!

your information has been very helpful

Hmm. I'm puzzled as to why you guys are not getting audio. It works perfectly for me with all the TM700 footage I've shot. Have you tried importing it into iMovie to see if the audio comes back?

Alan,

Importing into iMovie, there is no audio in the event viewer, nor is there audio in QT or iTunes. I am on a late '09 MBP Core 2 Duo with 10.6.3. What can you tell us about your setup that might help narrow this down? Either your Mac HW/SW or any custom settings on your TM700 could be relevant.
From what I can derive looking at the output of ffmpeg, the audio stream is recognized and copied and should be in there so I'm stumped at the moment.

Here is another question ..... have you noticed any problems with play-back within iMovie if you were shooting video and also using IMAGE STABILIZATION in the TM700 ? How about if you did happen to make a DVD with iMovie ... and Image Stabilization was utilized in the camcorder .... did you see any artifacts from the DVD copy of the footage?

seems to me something is mentioned about this somewhere ...

thanks ... !