Re: Can you import 1080 60P material in Elements 11, as an example from a Panasonic HDC-TM900 camcorder?

Question

It is not about a slow computer (míne is new and fast) or an apple computer (I use windows 8) but it's about video quality and editing usability. Down under are the specifications of my camera, you can see the panasonic has different options and the MOV 50p had better quality (because of the higher bitrate), it is easier to use then the highly compressed AVCHD with video editing and I can use it also on a MAC (if I would like to). That is because I use MOV (and professionals like it too). So I need a MOV 50P setting and nog the AVCHD setting (I already installed the AVCHD setting as described above). It is true the panasocic is new and it is not very common in the consumer market to use MOV (most camcorders use AVCHD indead) and most DSLR don't have the 50p resolution yet it is still rare these days.
I hope there is anybody with a solution (I wish someone good give me a MOV 50p setting for PE11 and I'm happy!)
these are the video specifications of the Panasonic GH3
MOV (H.264) resolution, frame and bit rates
• 1920x1080 (60p/50p): 50Mbps
• 1920x1080 (30p/25p): 50Mbps (IPB), 72Mbps (All-I)
• 1920x1080 (24p): 50Mbps (IPB), 72Mbps (All-I)
• 1280x720 (60p/50p): 50Mbps (IPB), 72Mbps (All-I)
• 640x480 (24p): 10Mbps
MP4 (H.264) resolution, frame and bit rates
• 1920x1080 (24p): 50Mbps
• 1920x1080 (30p/25p): 20Mbps
• 1280x720 (30p/25p): 10Mbps
• 640x480 (30p/25p): 4Mbps
AVCHD resolution, frame and bit rates
• 1920x1080 (60p/50p): 28Mbps
• 1920x1080 (60i/50i): 24/17/13Mbps
• 1920x1080 (24p): 24/17Mbps
• 1280x720 (60p/50p): 17/13Mbps
Audio
44.1kHz Mono (Internal Mic), Linear PCM
File Formats
MOV, MP4, AVCHD
I will continue at a new discussions (because originally it's about panasonic 60p and that is indeed AVCHD like most camcorders and that solutions works):
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1169776

Answer 1

One of the beauties of Non Linear Editors is that at final output rendering, it goes to the source.  It is not rendered twice.
The single most confusing subject I've run into trying to learn editing is how this works.  Here is what I think happens.
First, you have to have a project setting that accepts your source files so that you can work in real time preview with smoothness.  The computer is doing "real time project rendering" for preview.  So, if Ann's suggestion works during the editing process, you're fine.  In other words, you may not NEED an exact match between your source footage and your project preset.  Let PrE pick the best it can when you slide the first clip to the timeline.
Second, when it is time to make your final product(s), you set the "output render" or "transcode" setting in the Share+Publish area.  You might need something optimized for YouTube, an iPhone or Hollywood.  The editing software then looks at what you have been doing in real time, goes to all the markers and transitions you have set and makes an entirely new file, the "video", by reading from your 50Mbps source files. 
Somewhere here there is a long post from an Adobe tech who tried to explain it to me.  He emphasized that there was some relationship between the project setting and the output files, but the most important part was the output settings.
In the Share+Publish section there are a lot of presets.  For some you can change the frame rate and bit rate.  You should find something pretty close.
Your GH3 is so new, I've read little about it.  A 50 Mbps rate is twice what we've had at the consumer level for the last few years.  Have fun with that camera!
Bill