Import or capture MPEG 4 H 264 from a sanyo camera

what settings? to capture MPEG-4 AVC/H-264 sanyo camera
dv pal, dv ntsc or transod in anything, apples rore using i'm lost
thank's for yout help

h264 is not a native format that fcp can edit with, so you will have to encode the footage to dv or dvcpro or prores, usinf either compressor of mpegstreamclip then import that .mov file into fcp

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Ok, well here is it blown up to 2X to make it more obvious:
and here it is blown up to 2X and with the contrast increased to make it even more apparent:
I perhaps didn't pick the best frame as an example, but it is very obvious in motion. If necessary I suppose I could post a small movie clip to show.
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Import or capture MPEG 4 H 264 from a sanyo camera

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