Importing from Canon HF10

The good news is I can connect my HF10 to iMovie without a problem, but if I try to save in the Full 1080 format it warns me that this will degrade the footage. Any reason for that? Should I ignore the warning and carry on regardless or drop to import option to the large (960x540 ) setting?
Thanks

Try doing a forum search. There can be a lot of different causes for the exclamation mark, wrong settings, mixed media on the chip, audio not set to plain stereo, having Perian installed.
The second question needs more information. Please provide the exact item properties of the clips that are being imported via XML and the item properties of the sequence in which you're editing.

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FORMAT HD
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I go to log and transfer select the clips I need and click add to que.
So perfect there are my clips in my bin, I bring them to my timeline and a green line appears above my video, uugggggh. I know this is a rendering issue but why.
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I'm afriad the fact that your Olympus dSLR is supported is no relevance.
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You may have nearly filled up your hard disc.
1 hour of DV is about 13GB. Trying to capture a 2nd hour would take you up to about 26GB of space used up on your hard disc.
It's better to capture to an internal disc, or to a FireWire-connected external disc, as USB - even USB 2.0 - can't necessarily keep up with the constantly sustained data throughput speeds which DV needs.
A Mac needs about 10% of your total hard disc space to be empty, to allow for its internal 'housekeeping', log files, virtual memory files, etc. So if you have an 80GB internal disc, with, say, 13GB of operating system & programs, plus, say, 20GB of pictures, plus, say, 13GB of documents, and you add 13GB (1 hour's worth) of video, that's 59GB, and you'll need about 8GB of free space, that's 67GB accounted for, leaving about 13GB empty for your 2nd hour.
But that spare 13GB of spare space may be scattered around the disc, and not all in one sequential region, which may be why you're getting stuttering.
Not only that, but there may be 'dropouts' on the tape (brief signal disappearance) which may not show on the camcorder (..because many camcorders substitute a previous frame of video for any damaged frame..) but may only show up when you try importing. This may happen if, for instance, you recorded at a slower than normal speed, e.g; LP speed instead of Standard Play speed.
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I'm probably just an idiot, but I can't figure out to import the video footage from my Canon HF10. My comp has no problem recognizing the internal hdd and the extra sd card I have for it, but I normally don't work in iMovie, so I'm a little technically ******** when it comes to it's operation. Help?

To all who care,
I have a MacBook unibody and am running Snow Leopard. I have experienced all the same frustrations listed above and on other related posts with respect to the Canon HF10 and Leopard/Snow Leopard. I will tell you that it made absolutely NO SENSE to me why Canon, a very Mac friendly company, would make these procedures SO difficult. Why would I purchase a compact high definition camera that fits in the palm of my hand if space saving and simplification was not a premium in the decision matrix of my investment? You're telling me I need to travel with a power cord, USB cable and an installation CD/DVD at every juncture of my video editing with cords scattered from heck to breakfast? Well, I don't, and Canon didn't intend on my doing that, either.
Procedure to be able to simply place your videos into a finger sized SDHC card reader after placing them on your SDHC/Class IV or higher/card directly from your camera:
1. Ensure your card in installed in your camera (duh)?
2. Turn Camera On.
3. Spin selector wheel to Video Playback.
4. Notice Four Options: Movies: Original (Built-In Mem), Movies: Original (Card), Movies: Playlist (Built-In Mem), Movies: Playlist (Card).
5. The work you've done all goes into the "Movies: Original" Locations. If you, like me, have popped out your card here and beat your head against your computer screen wondering why you can't get to what you know to be on the card, you've stopped here... Here, yes, you do need to follow the book procedure and play the musical cords and curse the poor ergonomic nature of this design.
6. **Clutch Move** Highlight the work you'd like to edit on iMovie in the "Movies: Original (Card)" section and press the FUNC. button.
7. **Clutch Move2** Select "ADD TO PLAYLIST", at which point you will be asked, All scenes on this date or simply this one scene. Do whatever you like, the camera means business. Confirm your request.
8. Check your procedure following skills by now moving to the "Movie: Playlist (Card)" category.
9. Whattaya know!!! Now something is there that wasn't before, that same video clip I've been trying to put on my computer now strangely exists in two locations on my camera... Well, just push the "I believe button" and trust me. When you extract your SDHC card and interface it with your computer, you will be very happy when you see iMovie respond to your request in familiar Mac style and fashion.
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I am using PP CS4 to edit footage from my Canon HF10 HD camera. I am shooting in 1080p. When I render the file, there is a thin green line at the bottom of the image. My import settings match up with the properties of the source (1920 x 1080, 29.97 frame rate, pixel a/r 1.0). I am rendering the file to 482 x 272.
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I use cs3 and apparently there are differences between cs3 and 4...re: aspect ratios etc....so maybe someone with cs4 can help you more...
but basically my experience has been that you can export using desktop settings ( custom ) that deal with those type discrepancies...
you didnt say what you are exporting to ( what size )...I dont think...so I dont know if this will help but here's an example
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Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
For more information on this, take a look at:
Some video clips may not import into iMovie when using the Camera Import window
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4485
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