720p30 H.264/AVC is converted to 720p30 AIC

iLife makes a nasty change from 09!
In the past one could choose a camera that shot 720p30 H.264/AVC and know no time would be wasted converting to 720p30 AIC. True, editing wasn't as smooth, but lots of time was saved.
Now iMovie treats 720p30 H.264/AVC as though it were AVCHD and forces an optimize!
Clearly, for many of us this is NOT OPTIMAL behavior!
PS: I've always wondered why iM didn't use a good deinterlacer. So I put some DV clips through Comressor's super good deinterlacer. About 5 minutes took all night. So, I guess that's why they use a poor one.
It looks like Apple is determined to work internally only with progressive AIC.

Sorry Tom, the Pana 700 may say AVCHD on the body but it does not USE AVCHD when it records 1080p60.
You need to read more closely. I said "you may read ..." which means you may read marketing materials that say X. I never said AVCHD on the body has anything to do with BD. So why are you connecting these two?
It is not software or hardware alone that determine what is possible. It is the Sony-Panasonic definition of what IS AVCHD, what IS BD, and what may moved to what.
Signing an AVCHD and/or BD license requires certain things and excludes certain things. Obviously, it allows you put the AVCHD badge on product as long as it CAN do all that is possible with. And, obviously, it allows a camcorder to record other formats such as DV and H.264 as Panasonic does.
Neither AVCHD nor BD allow 1080p50/60. Likely they could. Perhaps they will. But, they don't now. The BD spec does not allow 1080p25 or 1080p30 although the AVCHD spec does. But you can copy 1080p25 or 1080p30 AVCHD to a disc that will play in a BD player IF the builder has a license for AVCHD.

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