I also agree that Native AVCHD or at least importing directly in Media Composer (via transcoding to DNxHD) needs to come along. Panasonic has a prosumer AVCHD cam out now, and I imagine more will come. It would be a nice addition. I remember that it took years before AVID supported JVC Pro HDV (particularly in 24P) and the Canon 24f frame rates. Please

That was the problem. Thanks!!!

I have the Avid DNxHD codec selected, at 145 1080i (1440x1080) at 59.94fps. The project is set up with the same specs. A 45 second clip took several minutes to import, which suggests it was transcoded. What could be going wrong.

I am currently using AVC-HD material, and when I transcode to DNxHD, I want to make sure AVID does not transcode it again upon import. I am using MPEG Streamclip to get the job done. What are the proper settings that I should use, outside of Color being set to 709 and making sure the correct frame rate and size are set?

Jimmy_James: Just to wake this thread up, because this week I've got to buy a 24" iMac as well. Is there a huge performance difference with the 256MB NVidia card? Is it just adding more real time processing ability? I was thinking of buying the bigger card to help with some After Effects work. Also, how is it working off media stored on the local drive

Solopost: I bump here too. bump. Come on Avid. I am getting FCS 2 today! Still nothing from you guys...

junnycake: So theoreticly I could load the footage into final cut and bring the quicktimes into avid this ofcourse kills any online for the project. I guess and eye match can work but it's a hell of a lot of work to keep this in avid, They are making it easy to jump over, come on avid! This is getting frustrating, I love avid but damn. That is the general

Just do a google search for each App. The timecode will not stay though. Once you download the Apps, let me know and I will give you a step-by-step procedure in MPEG Streamclip. Also, let me know which codec you want to use. You will use the "Import" tool in avid to bring in the clips. That will copy them to the OMFI folder and remove the Quicktime

In either Frame Rate, you can capture with a program called DVHSCap (Free) and take that resulting .m2t file into another free program called MPEG Streamclip which will convert the file into whatever codec you want. In your case you would want either DNxHD for HD work or one of the SD Avid Codecs for SD work. Avid has no respect for that camera by the

alexw: >> BetweenTheWheels   Ehm, may I ask how you know about the updates? Do they usually upgrade them around these dates? Cause if they do I guess it´s worth the wait. And is there anywhere one can find more info about upcoming updates? http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/ They track all the news and updates that Apple does. The iMac is overdue