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jboner1058

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Hey, I have a mac lab with dual core 2ghz powerpc G5s, 1gbram, and ati radeon x850 graphics cards. They also have final cut express 4.0 on them. I am looking to buy a bunch of avchd panasonic cameras (1 hmc-150, 5 hdc-tm300k) I have one i7 mac with final cut pro which I know will do the hmc-150 at full quality, but what about the old mac pros? maybe if the cameras capture at lower quality?
 
Here at the school service center I work at (producing videos for a huge school district) we have one machine that is running the slower (sub 3 ghz) processors... it will be very frustrating and time consuming to work on a 2 ghz dual core machine. You also should really up your ram... by at least 4 fold. There is no capture process with the avchd codec cameras- you will have to log/transfer your footage using AIC or pro res settings to "transcode" your footage into something final cut can edit. Other users have said that they get good results using a third party software to transcode, but we work all final cut here. If you really want to "capture" the footage- you could play the footage out of the component cables out tape (miniDV/DVCpro) and then capture like you're used to doing... but that will add time you probably don't have to the process.
Hope your district isn't suffering through all kinds of budget cuts like we are....
 
PowerPC G5s are not Intel MacPros and won't support log and transfer to AVCHD to pro res.

There isn't a way around it except perhaps transcoding the raw MTS files to an editable format using either:

Toast 9/10
VideoPierHD
Voltaic HD

or transcoding the Neoscene Mac.
 
Oh yeah... and that... non-intel macs- big hurdle for editing avchd footage. Thanks for catching that!
 
what about converting it in toast 9 to a lower bitrate format? Not neccesarily worried about getting the full hd out of it, even converting to a progressive 480p would be great
 
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