Kodak Zi8 into FCP

Anyone used a Kodak Zi8 and transferred into FCP?
Need any converters?
Or is log and transfer easy. Recording at 1080p
Jayblum

Meg,
What I discovered is that, for my purposes, the Zi8 goes into iMovie with not a hitch.
So for now I'll use it that way.
And yes it is a great little camera. Looses quality when zoom all the way in but overall does the job.
Thanks for the help.

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1080 p at 30 fps
720 p at 60 fps
720 p at 30 fps
and WVGA
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All of them suffered a bit of choppiness, pixelation, stuttering, etc. when I tried to view them in the above methods.
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I see a similar post with the kodak videocamera (Zi6, another pocket videocamera): http://forums.adobe.com/message/1990668#1990668
From what I read, it appears that one may need to convert the movies to another format (AVI for example).

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