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Will Final Cut Pro X fully support Panasonic TM700's 60fps/1080p shooting mode for import?

I own a Panasonic HDC-TM700 and I love it very much. It does show up in Log and Transfer and will properly transfer all of my video captured on it- except for anything recorded on the highest setting the camera has to offer. I personally choose quality over quantity, and for me, disk space is no object, and so I ALWAYS shoot on this highest setting. The only way I have found to import the high-quality footage into Final Cut at this point is to open the camera's file directory through Finder, then drag the .MTS files into Popcorn and have them converted into 60fps, 1080p .MOV files. After they are converted, I drag the converted files into my Final Cut project and at this point I can began editing. HOWEVER, this is extremely undesirable, and I desperately hope they change this in the future. Does anyone know if Final Cut Pro X will include full support for my camera? I saw that it fully supported up to 4K, so I can only assume they could handle my highest setting on my camera. Thanks to anyone who responds!! 🙂

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.4)

Posted on May 3, 2011 9:31 PM

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May 30, 2012 3:42 PM in response to jdbellis

well, the problem is, Final cut X does NOT like 60p video. I know there are people having success with using GoPro footage, but I'd say for now 60p or higher framerates just aren't going to be any good to work with.

I've only tried using the footage once, and it was so choppy, and if you tried to color balance, adjust levels, or color correct, it'd give me a green screen. I'm using 8gb of ram, and was using a 500gb video drive (firewire 800), so it might be a RAM thing. or slow bitrate from AVCHD...but those are just guesses.

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May 30, 2012 3:56 PM in response to one2dive_1999

I have sucessfully edited the 1080p60 footage from my tm700 with FCPx, you must use proxy media as even the bitrate for the Optimized midia is going to overwelm a dual core i7 machine (my mac mini). So Footage > Clipwrap or Toast > Create Proxy! Or just use Premiere Pro like I do for my 60p footage? No re wrapping or convering but it get a bit stuttery if you have a dual core i7, you'll also need a quald core.

So 60p is a great idea but it's a biatch to edit. You may even want to get compressor and just convert it to ProRes422 1080p24. This Optimized media will play fine in FCPx with a dual core machine.

It's all to do with bitrates:

720p24 ProRes422 is 58Mb/

10800P60 ProRes422 is 293Mb/s - reaching max speed of USB2.