AVCHD Log & Transfer shut out in 27" iMac ?

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AVCHD Log & Transfer shut out in 27" iMac ?

Hi guys,

Is the following problem common ?

1) When I did a log & transfer in 27" iMac importing direct from a SDHC card, it takes about 2 mins to detect the card but if I put the same SDHC card into my macbook pro sdhc slot, it only takes about 15 seconds to detect. Why is the 27" iMac slower than the macbook pro ?

2) Another problem with the AVCHD Log & Transfer in the 27" iMac is that very often when I try to drag the playhead forward (ie to the right) to review the clip (i wanted to forward to find the correct out point), the beach ball came out & it rotates indefinately & I have to force quit. Sometimes, in the process, FCE4 closes itself ....

Any ideas ?

Thanks

15.4" Macbook Pro - 2.53 GHz, 500GB HDD, Mac OS X (10.5.8), 27" iMac - 4GB RAM, 1TB HDD, 1GB ATI Radeon HD, i5 QuadCore

Posted on Aug 29, 2010 6:26 PM

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Answer 1

Tom Wolsky

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Aug 29, 2010 6:43 PM in response to RyanManUtd

1) You mean you have the camera connected to the iMac? You're using the camera software to present and load the media. The MBP is using the Mac OS software to rad the card.

2) Same problem. Most people backup the card to a hard drive or some other archive media and ingest from there.

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RyanManUtd Author

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Aug 29, 2010 7:04 PM in response to Tom Wolsky

Tom Wolsky wrote:
1) You mean you have the camera connected to the iMac? You're using the camera software to present and load the media. The MBP is using the Mac OS software to rad the card.

No, I did not connect the camera to iMac. I put the SDHC card directly into the sdhc slot of iMac.

When L&T in macbook pro, I also did the same, which is to put the sdhc card directly into the sdhc slot of the macbook pro.

2) Same problem. Most people backup the card to a hard drive or some other archive media and ingest from there.

U mean copy the whole 16GB from the sdhc card into the iMac internal HDD ?

Thanks

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Tom Wolsky

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Aug 29, 2010 7:26 PM in response to RyanManUtd

"I put the SDHC card directly into the sdhc slot of iMac."

That shouldn't be so slow, unless there is a problem with the slot or the card.

"U mean copy the whole 16GB from the sdhc card into the iMac internal HDD ?"

No, usually a secondary drive. You should have some backup or archive of your media.

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RyanManUtd Author

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Aug 29, 2010 11:23 PM in response to Tom Wolsky

Tom Wolsky wrote:
"I put the SDHC card directly into the sdhc slot of iMac."

That shouldn't be so slow, unless there is a problem with the slot or the card.

I copied to my internal HDD & do a L&T vial the SDHC slot, it also took the same time. I tried on my old 24" iMac, it is also that slow. It is only on my macbook pro that it is fast ...

Is there a problem with my new 27" iMac ?

"U mean copy the whole 16GB from the sdhc card into the iMac internal HDD ?"

No, usually a secondary drive. You should have some backup or archive of your media.

Ok, I am copying to my FW800 ext HDD now ....

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Answer 5

Oct 7, 2010 7:34 AM in response to RyanManUtd

As far as I understand by trial and error: On a iMac Icore7 (8 GB RAM) it takes 2 minutes before AVCHD media on a SDHC card shows up in the L&T. The same happens when using a MacPro (2x 2.66Ghz dual core) both running OS 10.6.4 and FCP 6.0.6
The strangest thing is: when using OS 10.5.8 with the same FCP on the MacPro it only takes about 5 seconds to show the same media, same SDHC card...... beats me but I got a strange feeling about this.
And no way I put my money in a couple of Imac iCore7's to install an older OS.

Apple, any comment ???

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Tom Wolsky

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Oct 7, 2010 7:58 AM in response to a.vandermonde

Nobody from Apple on this forum. It's user to user only.

If you have a question about Final Cut Pro you should ask it on that forum.

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DanO76

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Oct 22, 2010 1:21 PM in response to Tom Wolsky

I am having the same issue with my iMac. By accident i figured out that this is happening when I have my ethernet or wifi turned on. If i unplug the ethernet cord and disable the wifi on the iMac, then the log and transfer will detect instantly. I tried this several times to insure it wasn't just a coincidence. Don't know if anyone is aware of this issue? I don't want to continue this workaround.

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