Exporting footage for playback on AF100

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GrandLunar

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I've got my short film edited and ready to go but I want to play it off of my AF100.
My laptop doesn't have HDMI out, and burning a DVD is another story. I then hook up my AF100 up to my TV via HDMI

So does anyone know if I can export edited footage out of CS4 and then drag the file into an SD card and have it play back from the AF100?
If so what should the file format be? Or am I just reinventing the wheel? (Or ruining the wheel)
 
Any thoughts or suggestions on how to play it off the TV? I know this seems like a redundant question. But My dvd player wont play the dvd's I burn, and the laptop runs too slow to playback the movie via HDMI.
I do most of my work on a desktop computer, several rooms away.
 
You'd have to burn your DVD as an "AVCHD DVD" (which you can do from FCP7, for example) and then play it in a blu-ray player... such as a Playstation. These discs won't play in a normal DVD player btw.

You can move files from your computer to SDHC cards and put them back on an AVC camera to play (I've done it with my AG-3DA1) but it's a bit primitive. I archive the whole SDHC card to disc and you can drop all of that back onto the SDHC card later, put it back in the camera and play from there.

You can then either edit on the camera if you want to do simple things like just remove some shots or try using Panasonic's AVCCAMViewer (free download from their website) to do some basic clip editing first. It's not really set up for stereo 3D cameras like the 3DA1 but should be fine for the AF100/101. Very basic but can burn to blu-ray as well as store on SD cards.

HTH

Neil
 
I asked this question after I got my AF last year. No one responded with any positive ideas, so I am going to say it's unlikely. It's unfortunate, but what can you do.
 
grimrebes said:
I asked this question after I got my AF last year. No one responded with any positive ideas, so I am going to say it's unlikely. It's unfortunate, but what can you do.
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You can do plenty.

Like...use one of the many devices that are designed for playback purposes and for which the NLE has provided all the options one requires to create appropriate media.

Kind of odd to want to use a camera for that.
 
I know, I was trying to make a macguyver out a situation. I've got no DVD playback, and no laptop, etc etc. Just an HDMI cable, an AF100, an SD card and a paperclip.
All of the above examples are great, and I was just trying to see if there was anyway to do this. Oh well
I appreciate everyone's contributions
 
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