COnfusion on AVCHD an HD and import in FCPro

[rude boy]

Hi there to evrybody!

Like my title explain i have purchased a panasonic model HDC - SD1PP
that use tecnology AVCHD.....Its written on the case that is a high quality hd camera, that record the video in 1800x 1200 , now i have tried to
connect it to my mac and open IMOVIE for importing the recorded video. I also tried to export my project in the best quality setting that Quictime
video provide. H264 best quality.
BUT THE QUALITY OF THE VIDEO really sucks if compare to te video that i see on the lcd of the camera....how can i do for the best exporting of this
hd format? i have to use final cut HD?

waiting resposne from expert!
bye

ALso the instruction say that you can see high quality only on the television with a HDMI CAble ...but can i edit my videos in HD quality on mac?
How can i import my videos on FINAL CUT PRO ? i asked this question becouse you can only transfer data with usb cable....WTF???

[OlaHaldor]

You'll need Final Cut Studio 3 for full compability with AVCHD. Then you connect the camera and you should see the memory stick appear in Finder. Use Log and transfer, select the memory card. Then you'll have all the clips available for ingest.

[rude boy]

wait a moment...i dont understand.,....
i have final cut pro and the compatibitly is onlu with final cut 3?????
it doesnt make sense!!

anyway you think by this way the image will be grater? in hd?
becouse passing by imovie 08 its like if i was recording by my minidv old camera....i doesnt see any difference in the video.

thanks for suggesting!

[OlaHaldor]

AVHD and AVCIntra is a new standard..

What version of Final Cut Pro are you using anyway?



I have no idea what you're talking about regarding iMovie. I've never used it.

[FACELESS]

avchd is pretty new tech so your gunna need newer software to use it. m2ts is the best compression for avchd but yeh of course to get the best quality you need a blu-ray/ps3 player a hdmi cable and a hd tv. otherwise your defo guna lose quality

[rude boy]

heeeeeel nooooo....
so im fXXX up....

at least if i pass the video directly in final cut its gonna compress it a lot??

or at least i could recuperate the cd of the installation part (for pc only) and i could try to get some result form processing it from pc!!

thanks for advise!

[OlaHaldor]

No recompression is needed as far as I know, but then again, I've never worked with AVC HD nor AVC Intra, yet.

But you WILL NEED Final Cut Studio 3 (or possibly iLife 09) in order to be able to use it.