1080p in PE 8.0

Hello All,
Does anyone know if PE 8.0 supports 1080p AVCHD files? In theproject settings theres only 1080i @ 30fps.
I'm using a Sanyon Xacti HD2000 with 1080p @30fps. I called sales support and they had no answer. I called tech support and after 45 minute wait the guy didn't even know what 1080p was!!!
I can import my files using the 1080i settings just fine but was wondering if these would affect quality in some way.
Please help. Thanks

As you can see, if you do Google search on editing Xacti video, most people are finding it necessary to convert the video to a more standard format.
http://forums.steves-digicams.com/sanyo/144881-sanyo-xacti-hd-1000-video-conversion-tutori al.html
But, again, that may or may not be necessary. As we always say, your mileage may vary. So, if you've done beginning-to-end test drive of your footage and it's producing the quality of video you're looking for (with no annoying jiggles or reduced pixelation), don't worry about it. You're golden.

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display: :0 screen: 0
API version: 1
Information string: NVIDIA VDPAU Driver Shared Library 337.25 Tue May 27 12:24:30 PDT 2014
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name width height types
420 4096 4096 NV12 YV12
422 4096 4096 UYVY YUYV
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MPEG1 0 8192 2048 2048
MPEG2_SIMPLE 3 8192 2048 2048
MPEG2_MAIN 3 8192 2048 2048
H264_MAIN 41 8192 2048 2048
H264_HIGH 41 8192 2048 2048
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VC1_MAIN 2 8190 2048 2048
VC1_ADVANCED 4 8190 2048 2048
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MPEG4_PART2_ASP 5 8192 2048 2048
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DIVX5_MOBILE 0 8192 2048 2048
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DIVX5_HD_1080P 0 8192 2048 2048
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B8G8R8A8 8192 8192 y Y8U8V8A8 V8U8Y8A8
R10G10B10A2 8192 8192 y Y8U8V8A8 V8U8Y8A8
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R8G8B8A8 8192 8192
R10G10B10A2 8192 8192
B10G10R10A2 8192 8192
A8 8192 8192
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SHARPNESS y
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HIGH QUALITY SCALING - L1 y
HIGH QUALITY SCALING - L2 -
HIGH QUALITY SCALING - L3 -
HIGH QUALITY SCALING - L4 -
HIGH QUALITY SCALING - L5 -
HIGH QUALITY SCALING - L6 -
HIGH QUALITY SCALING - L7 -
HIGH QUALITY SCALING - L8 -
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VIDEO_SURFACE_HEIGHT y 1 4096
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You may need a display adaptor but can otherwise use a non-Apple monitor.
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-Aaron

hey there cooperaa & welcome to Discussions.
i didn't see anything in the fullspecs that said your TV does 1080p, just that it does 1920x1080. also, since 1080p was a fairly new "standard" for video(Blu-ray/HD-DVD) when your Mac was built, a 1920x1080 progressive output was possibly not included. i have an early 2006 17" iMac connected to my 42" HDTV over DVI>HDMI & i can get 1920x1080i, which is the highest rez my TV will accept & i use this iMac as my DVD player(along w/ an optical cable for audio) & have not noticed anything "ugly" w/ the picture as i have de-interlace selected on the DVD player(a standard DVD is 720x480). since Apple doesn't include a Blu-ray player/recorder in any of their machines what will you watch that will be in 1080p? generally if your TV does the higher rez, it will scale the rez to fit your settings--ie. a 1920x1080i broadcast on a 1280x720p TV will scale down to the TV's native rez as well a 1280x720p broadcast will be scaled up to 1920x1080i if that's the native rez.
good luck.

MacBook Pro DVI-HDMI 1080p doesn't work correctly

Hello,
I've just bought new Samsung LCD TV LE40B550. This TV is Full HD and support 1080p. I've connected it via DVI (macbook pro) -> HDMI (TV) cable. It works ok, when I set 1080i. But when I set up 1080p, it shows few dots (pixels) on TV not correctly. The picture is not that good as 1080i. Shouldn't it be reversely? The 1080p should be 1080i, shouldn't be?

You probably want to post this in the MacBook Pro forum:
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=190
There is a sub forum just for displays, video out, and video accessories.

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