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1st: I am trying to export video to Final Cut Express, the XML files that I save to my desktop aren't being accepted by Final Cut. I try to import files to Final express but there is an error when I try that.
Second: When I save movies, I have saved them in XML (which is not accepted) & Quicktime, Quicktime seems to b accepted but I want the videos in the same chopped form that I got them from the vid cam. How do I get that?
Third, how do I get SMV4 files to work with either program? (iMovie or Final Cut)
Does Final Cut not take video straight from camera?
Any assistance would be appreciated.
Your Canon records in AVCHD format.
If you have an Intel-based iMac, then your Mac should be able to read - and transcode - the Canon HG10's AVCHD-format video files straight from the camera and turn them into editable 'Apple Intermediate Codec' files, which both Final Cut Express and Final Cut pro can read ..they also read .mov, and FCP reads many other video formats too.
The conversion from AVCHD to AIC is necessary because your Canon records in a compressed format which isn't editable until the compressed frames are recreated in AIC.
"..the XML files that I save to my desktop aren't being accepted.." ..well that's because XML isn't a video codec ..you may have an XML list of edits (..like an 'EDL' ..Edit Decision List..) but XML isn't video; it's text, as I understand it. Maybe Final Cut could read your EDL if you tell Final Cut where to find the actual video files which iMovie has imported.
"..I want the videos in the same chopped form that I got them from the vid cam.." ..well they won't be in the exact same format, as those are compressed and uneditable: they'll be in AIC format - or can be exported as .mov QuickTime files - in the Events folder in your Movies folder on your Mac.
"..Does Final Cut not take video straight from camera?.." ..It certainly does ..but it uncompresses the AVCHD into that editable AIC format.
(..The camera, essentially, records in 'shorthand' without vowels ..lke ths txt whch I'm typng alng ths lne. When it's being imported, iMovie reconstitutes the vowels so that the words are complete and can then be edited..)
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