New FCP Update 6.05 adds HMC-150 support

[Hovander]

Yesterday Apple released a comprehensive update for FCP Studio 2 which includes 6.05 for Final Cut.
Read this link for details.

http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/11/21/apple.updates.fcp.605

I'm hoping this update will fix the current issues being reported regarding the log and transfer process from the HMC-150 to Final Cut. Those issues being
inaccurate metadata reflecting the bit rate of the transfered clips. Transferred clips exhibiting corruption/pixelation. Transferred clips that exceed 4gb in size and must be linked to the next clip are generating approximately 10 seconds of corruption/pixelation at the link point. Transferred clips play back at 2x speed.

These issues have held many a potential buyer of the HMC-150 back. Please post your experiences after updating and testing FCP 6.05. It would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

[ullanta]

As I said in another thread... I haven't tried 6.0.5 with PH mode yet... but other modes all worked fine for me with 6.0.4; but I did have nasty artifacts in some clips with 6.0.5 in HA mode. Not at spanning boundaries...

-B

[Hovander]

For those of you looking for PH footage to test your updated version of FCP with, go to the following link...
http://dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?t=144730&page=80
On the second post from the bottom you will find Shrigg's initial footage he posted for download. Go ahead and download it and try it in FCP 6.05. I did exactly that and was pleased to see that the macro-blocking I experienced in FCP 6.04 is not there now. Works like a charm. I did note that the bit rates logged in FCP are still not accurate though. Should read 21mbps but the numbers are all over the place, ranging from 7mbps to 17mbps, but not a single clip registers 21mbps as it should. The main point here is that the 6.05 version of FCP seems to have cleared up the macro-blocking issue.
I was unable to confirm that the macro-blocking on spanned clips has been eliminated as I do not have clips of that length to test.
Please share your experiences. I'm all ears.

[JonathanS]

Brief testing with FCP 6.0.5 and my shiny new HMC151 last night: 1080p25 and 720p50 came in smoothly to ProRes via Log & Transfer, but 720p25 glitched. Looks like the macroblocking problem we had under 6.0.4. I need to test more before I can point the finger of blame (it could be a bad card, I suppose).

Anyone else seeing problems with 720p25 footage? Can anyone confirm that 720p30 is solid?

[tankbullock]

Brief testing with FCP 6.0.5 and my shiny new HMC151 last night: 1080p25 and 720p50 came in smoothly to ProRes via Log & Transfer, but 720p25 glitched. Looks like the macroblocking problem we had under 6.0.4. I need to test more before I can point the finger of blame (it could be a bad card, I suppose).

Anyone else seeing problems with 720p25 footage? Can anyone confirm that 720p30 is solid?
Yep. I'm having the same problem with 720p25 and 6.0.5. update too. Bit of a pain in the behind but I'm very happy with the 1080p setting for the meanwhile. :Drogar-Smoke(DBG):

[JonathanS]

Thanks TankBullock - saves me wasting time running a battery of tests to confirm my suspicions. 1080p25 does look pretty darn lovely, so I guess I'll run with that until the next FCP update at least.

[David Saraceno]

See my thread on bring the AVCHD to p2 free Windows utility from Panasonic to the Mac.

[Cabin17]

Really appreciate your alert re FCP6.0.5. I'm having trouble transcoding 1080/24P and 1080/30P to ProRes via Log & Transfer. Clips from my HMC150 show up fine in Browser area and play fine in Preview. Transcode settings are defaults (ProRes422, Matrix Stereo). But the transcoded files end up 2/3 the length of the original. Video is sped up and Audio plays at the proper speed but is truncated when the (newly shortened) video ends.

I don't see any other settings to adjust. What am I overlooking that's making the transcoded video speed up? Thanks for your thoughts.

- Ken

[manglerBMX]

i've shot a couple hours worth of 1080/30p with no hiccups, weird....

[Cabin17]

mangler - did you transcode to ProRes? No hiccups there?