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How to edit AVCHD .MP4 from Sanyo Xacti HD1000
by Sam Alexander
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May 14, 2008 at 7:20:20 am
Hi,
I'm pretty sure this is a common question, but I have yet to find a definitive answer on how to edit footage from a Sanyo Xacti HD1000 in FCP 6.03...
I recently picked up one of these cool little cameras because of it's form factor and for pickups for docos etc where footage doesn't have to match the normal HD flow I use. Ideally I'd like to be able to edit the 1080i 30fps and the 720p 60fps in FCP easily, but apparently there is or was some sort of codec issue with this particular flavor of h264.
I heard there was a Quicktime incompatibility issue but I am using the latest Quicktime 7.4.x or something (whatever the latest updates are) and I am hesitant to use an older version of QT to not screw up my other FCP projects.
Quicktime player could not playback these .MP4 files from the camera -but I did install avc1decoder 0.76 and now QT can play them back ok I think - but I still can't see them in FCP.
Does anyone have a good workflow for these kind of files? If I have to convert to a different format that's ok, because I expect to deinterlace the 1080i stuff anyways and also possibly run a chromatic noise filter on them anyways since the Sanyo quality isn't that great unless you have daylight or a very well lit set (though that's ok for me for what I'm using this cam for).
Any suggestions on getting the footage to work in FCP or an intermediate format would be appreciated. I also may need to use these in FCP HDV 1080i 50 projects so I might need to convert to 25fps as well. What's the best way to do that? AE, Compressor?
thanks again for any pointers, :)
Sam
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