Importing from a Panasonic HDC TM700

mosesaero wrote:
Get final cut express 4 for $200 and all problems solved..just log and transfer and then open up finder and drop them into imovie,or for better results edit on final cut and enjoy more features.

This is not true. Please read the first page of this thread. iMovie and FCE *will not* import the 60p footage with log and capture.

Jaime Villacorte wrote:
One thing that I'm bummed about is that resulting converted file loses all the original EXIF data, including, most importantly, the Date/Time Original field.

you might want to overcome the loss of date/time with a simple addition to your script: touch -t ...

check out "man touch" to find out more.

enjoy

That would be really cool. Can you give it a try, Jaime?

steinmanal wrote:
That would be really cool. Can you give it a try, Jaime?

It was already there. See the ksh scripts I posted here:
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?p=18609350#post18609350

I have this camera and CANNOT import into FCE4. I am so frustrated! I have no idea why it's not working. I'm not recording in 60p. FCE also keeps crashing. Help, someone! I am so new to this!

I recently started using a Sony HXR-NX5U. Very nice camera.... anyways. I mistakingly only transfered the steam folders when I was done doing a shoot in Haiti. Now for most f my time there, I only have .MTS files to work with. I have tried PavTube and a bunch of other cheap programs that really do not work. I came across 'ClipWrap'. It seems to work very well with the 'rewrap' option, but I am getting smearing and stuttering with some clips. I also tried your auto workflow and it opens but closes immediately.

Can you help me out. Thanks

BaoHu wrote:
I came across 'ClipWrap'. It seems to work very well with the 'rewrap' option, but I am getting smearing and stuttering with some clips.

Is the stuttering limited to playback with QuickTime Player? Have you used an alternate player like VLC or Movist which may playback the video more efficiently?

If you have access to windows you may try this to rebuild the file structure: http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=11531525#11531525

I didn't get clipwrap to work but this solution has helped me a lot. Especially since I run Windows under VMWare on my mac this is a convenient solution.

However, if imported video is stuttering, may it be that the resolution is too much for your hardware? In which case you will have similar problems as long as you use the same codec. For me, after I de-interlaced (removing half the lines) the movies are running smoothly.

I have problem with ffmpeg conversion (instead video there was only green screen in converted file).

Conversion was pretty fast (on both OSX & RHEL). In OsX I use darwin port for ffmpeg installation.
So I installed RedHat Enterprice Linux into Parallels and there ffmpeg & this solution worked for me perfectly.

Just a thought that those hearing audio may have QT plug-in like Perian that plays AC-3 audio. Or, maybe they also have FCP. FCP's Log and Transfer will accept AC-3 files while iM will not.

Steve Mullen wrote:
Just a thought that those hearing audio may have QT plug-in like Perian that plays AC-3 audio. Or, maybe they also have FCP. FCP's Log and Transfer will accept AC-3 files while iM will not.

That was pretty much the conclusion over in the AVS forums.

Alan I have tried downloading rewrap from the link on this post, but every time I open it, it closes down again straight away. I too have got the panasonic sd700 but cant seem to get anything recorded in 1080/50p into final cut express 4 or imovie 09. Any Ideas?

First of all I would like to thank Alan for his useful workflow. I am using it regularly and there is nothing to complain about. As life is sometimes not easy I am facing an interesting issue. I do convert the 1080p50 footage into a 720p25 using mpeg streamclip and the Apple Intermediate Codec. Interesting wise the converted video is a bit brighter than the original one - using Quicktime X for verification. This happens as well using iMovie 09. The purpose of doing it is easy to explain. I am using Final Cut Express for editing and the described worklow fits into one of the standard sequence settings of FCE and makes rendering not necessary. I have done a lot of research using the www and it seems to be that this issue is related to the changed gamma value of 10.6 or the immplementation of the Apple Intermediate Code. Could one please confirm and is there a workaround?

Help would be much appreciated
Oliver

I am also close to buy the Pana HDC-TM700 because of the 50/60p, but not without a resolution to post process the recordings Mac-like with my Mac. I am very excited what I have read here so far to resolve the incompatibility issue. For me as a typical Mac user I have no sense for “command line inputs” (This is why I moved from MS-DOS 3.3 and Windows 286 to OS 7). I am happy to read about Automator Apps and already available programs. However I did not fully get the point what currently works with particular Alan’s efforts (and how it works) as well as commercially “clipwrap?”. I don’t mind to add some $50 for a suitable conversion software to a $1.000 camcorder. For all here mentioned solutions/approaches what are the impacts on OSes 10.4/5/6 and/or iMovie 6/7/8/9, . . . Physically: what Mac performance is required to play and edit such movies : 2Ghz Core2duo or Quad? (I own a 2GHz core2duo 24” white iMac with 10.4.11 and iMove6)

I would be happy if someone of the experts here can put together a kind of easy readable summary or a “how to” manual with the several option.

Big thanks in advance!