Is "single field processing" fixed?

Copying the footage yourself or doing an "iMovie Archive" does the same thing it results in a folder with the contents of the SD card on it. I would think it would be easiest make an archive then just import from the archive and let iMovie do it's thing. No?

My Panasonic does not have a internal convert is that something as an option on the TM700?

Hi Dan,

No, that won't work in this case because the 1080p60 is in some kind of Panasonic proprietary format which iMovie doesn't read.

Yes, the internal conversion is something that the TM700 has but evidently others don't. Maybe it's because of the proprietary format...Panasonic are giving you another conversion option to get the footage out of the camera, albeit in interlaced format.

Be interesting to download the demo version of Elements and see if it reads it.

http://www.adobe.com/products/premiereel/features/?view=topnew

This may not be a good test. The demo version of Premiere Pro seems to be limited in the formats and codecs it supports. I suspect the same might be true of Elements.

Dan: If only I had good enough internet for such things. 1.7 GB for the Mac version!

Yes since moving out to the country it would take me HOURS to download that myself. 😟 Only thing I miss about the "big city" FAT internet pipe.

lol you guys got to be the most active in the iMovie section 😉

You might want to try backing up your entire SDHC card by using Disk Utilty, select the camera drive (or however you read the cards) and click on the "new image" button. This will create an exact copy of the card, in the correct file format etc. A plus for this method is whenever you mount the image, any program will treat this as the real thing, so for instance iPhoto and iMovie or whatever will treat it as a camera. Also, you will retain all Panasonic proprietary files such as settings etc.

Ah thanks so much Mattias. That was going to be another question but I hesitate to just keep asking stuff all the time.

I guess I'll try the workflow mentioned above and see how it goes.

Great, hope it works out!

Another plus which I forgot to mention is that you can actually rewrite your image onto the SDHC card (not via the camera though, but via a card reader). This is great if you want to show footage in the highest quality someplace where you don't have access to a HD capable player.

The "professional way" of backing up your cards is using the "ShotPut Pro" application, but that really only adds the capability of writing to multiple destinations simultaneously. The method above already does the proper error consistency checking anyway.

"No, that won't work in this case because the 1080p60 is in some kind of Panasonic proprietary format which iMovie doesn't read."

As far as I know, 1080p60 is simply H.264/AVC at 28Mbps.

There's no problem importing these files into iM.

Of course you need to switch iM to 60fps and you need a VERY powerful computer.

You'll need to copy the folder with these files to keep then for later use.

altering the plist still resulted in 30 FPS footage for me

Steve Mullen said: "...you need a VERY powerful computer..."

Yeah, and therein lies part of the problem! A quad core Mac Pro at 2.66 probably doesn't qualify. 🙂 And that's not changing any time soon.

So it would be nice to have a version of the footage that I can edit right away, and archive a version that I will be able to edit with a future version of iMovie and a faster computer.

NOTE to anyone with the Panasonic TM700 and thinking of doing the in camera conversion: "copy to SD card in AVCHD" doesn't really mean copy--it really means copy (and convert) then DELETE. So you need to pull off your 1080p60 stuff BEFORE you do the conversion.

Dan: so you finally managed to edit the plist setting?

The computer should be able to process it, but you will need some fast drives.

NOTE to anyone with the Panasonic TM700 and thinking of doing the in camera conversion: "copy to SD card in AVCHD" doesn't really mean copy--it really means copy (and convert) then DELETE. So you need to pull off your 1080p60 stuff BEFORE you do the conversion.

That's not true. I own this camera and use the conversion feature all the time. My 1080p/60 footage remains in the internal memory just fine following the in-camera conversion.

OK thanks brettf. In that case I'll need to figure out what I did wrong. I just read on another forum where someone said the same as you. I'll check it out and post back.