JVC GY-HM100U mov format

I know this is the FCP department, but has anyone tried the JVC GY-HM100U with Final Cut Express?
JVC states that it will work Final Cut Pro, but is blank about FCE.
Hoping for an answers here.
Thanks

I have been using the JVC HM100U with FCE without a problem, but I have been shooting in the 720 24P format. Even the HQ works, but I need to render the footage in the time line before I can see it well on the canvas. The HM100U HQ mov files have no problems being played in Quicktime or the FCE previewer. So far I am very happy with this camcorder. The ease of getting your clips into FCE overcomes the camcorder short falls. I also will probably upgrade to FCP after I recover from the HM100U investment. You can see what I have produced with this camcorder on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tn2tpcA5tmQ&feature=PlayList&p=1EA5A74FEED2E6A6&i ndex=24
Good luck!

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That's because MP4 and MOV are the CONTAINERS, not the codec, and the containers are not the same. It's an XDCAM EX 35Mbps camera, first and foremost--this is a specific codec used to compress the captured images. Then, they are stuffed into either an MP4 box or an MOV box; you use the MOV box when you're working on a Mac with FCP, and you use the MP4 box when you want to preserve your sanity (and mine, apparently). What is inside those boxes is EXACTLY the same.
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JVC GY-HM100u clip corrupted on card. How to recover?

Hello all. Long time reader, first time poster. I think I have some corrupt footage, and I need help recovering it. Anyone have experience with this...?
I've been shooting on a JVC HM-100 for a month or two now; about 20 hours of footage in the can. All shot 1080x1920, 30p in .MOV format (not .MP4). Until now, on a Mac Pro with FCP installed, all of the .MOV files could easily be viewed in Quicktime Player, and could be dragged into FCP and were editable right away without rendering, etc. My workflow has been to 1) shoot on the SD card, 2) dump the entire contents of the SD card to a hard drive, DCIM and PRIVATE folders/file structure and all. Once the dump is complete, 3) I review the footage using QT player, and edit in FCP. I also use Compressor to create lo-fi .mp4 clips of all of my shots for sharing with others, laptop logging, etc.
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Here's what's strange: The entire clip plays back on the camera. It is a "part two" clip, meaning that the clip is the second half of another earlier clip that had reached it's maximum file size (a weakness of the whole solid-state SDHC recording media technology that I really hate, but that's another post). But I also had another two-part clip on the same card, and both of those transferred just fine. It's just this one that isn't readable by the computer, even though it still plays in the camera.
I used the copy feature in the camera to copy the contents of card A to card b, and then imported card b hoping that would help - same result.
Here's one other fact that may be relevant: at the conclusion of shooting this particular clip, I turned off the camera, changed batteries, and fired up again. I may or may not have "closed" the file before I turned off the camera. (the HM100 will let you stop/start recording multiple times and compile all of those shots into one clip/scene. The scene isn't "closed" until you push *and hold* the record button to stop recording.) I just did a test shot where I recorded, stopped, intentionally didn't close the file, and powered down and removed the battery. That clip still imported and played fine; apparently the JVC "closes" any open file before powering down.
So there's my saga. I guess I have two questions. 1) how can I recover this footage? and 2) What's your best theory on why this happened?
I hate to think that this camera might just drop entire sections of my footage at random. That's a HUGE deal. Imagine an event photographer whose HM100u decides to drop the wedding vows...
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David, thanks for your reply. I came back here to post an update, and I think you're right. I did some more sleuthing, and I think I'm a victim of the 4GB file size limitation that I'm just now learning about. Seems that the HM100u didn't correctly split a long continuous shots into multiple files.
For the benefit of others who stumble here with the same issue, here are the details.
Recall that the clip in question is part two of a very long shot. Put simply, it's kinda like one long shot that the camera broke up into parts and stored as multiple clips for more manageable file sizes. When I review today's footage in the camera, i only have three "scenes" to choose from. The first two scenes, being very long continuous shots, are broken up into subparts. So I have a total of five .mov files that can be described as 1a, 1b, 2a, 2b, and 3. It's file 1b that is misbehaving - the second half of my first long shot.
I reviewed .mov file 1a on my computer in Quicktime. The file size was 3.71 GB, it's 13 minutes and 54 seconds long, and ends on a camera zoom. I reviewed scene 1 again in the camera, and it plays the whole thing just fine - scene 1 lasts an additional 7 or 8 minutes beyond that camera zoom. That 7 or 8 minutes is the second half of scene one, so it's the second .mov file that the camera created after the first half of shot/scene 1 reached it's maximum file size. That's the .mov file that I describe in my original post as "corrupt". It's the one that won't play.
So it looks like I have a situation where the camera split a shot into two clips, and failed to package up the second half in such a way that QT/FCP/Compressor/etc. knows what to do with it. It's still there, I can watch it in the camera, I just can't use it anywhere else.
Anyone have any additional suggestions?
Thanks,
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Now that the JCV GY-HM100U is available, has any one used it with FCE? Are the Quicktime .mov files drag and drop in FCE? I would like to upgrade my camera, and have been going back and forth between the Canon XH-A1 and JVC HM100U and really like the SDHC recording aspect. Would I need to up-grade to FCP if I wanted to use the HM100U native file recording (.mov) or would FCE handle the ISO base import using MPEG-2 Long format ?
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You really need to define what you are recording with that JVC camcorder and trying to edit in Premiere Elements 4. Are you recording AVCHD (represented as MPEG4 AVC/H.264) and frame size 1920 x 1080 30 frames per second OR 1440 x 1080 30 frames per second OR what might be AVCHD Lite (MPEG4 AVC/H.264) but with the lesser resolution of 1280 x 720, 30 frames per second?
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http://www.headbands.com/gspot/v26x/quick_start.html
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Second question is are you using the laptop for the web broadcast or recording?
Third question - what hardware are you going to use to get from the camera and into your computer, and what software to get it from the computer to the web?
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