Should I record video in Iframe format or other format such as 1080/60i or 1080/60p--want to import to imovie or abobe premiere?

I am traveling and recording video using a panasonicHCX920 full HD camera. I will probably import video into Imovie 11 on my Imac--but if I switch to final cut or Adobe premiere what recording format should I use? I know Iframe works--but does it work for HD movies played back on a HD TV? Which format is best?
1080/60I (1080/60p) or Iframe?
Thanks

Hi
iMovie can not yet - use p50 or p60 - as standard at all !
So I would use i50 or i60
the progressive material (p60) can be converted outside iMovie to interlaced (i60) - but I don't know how.
FinalCut Pro X - Can import and use progressive material - i've read.
Yours Bengt W

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I have a family video DVD that was originally on tape, but is now on disc. I want to import it onto my MacBook to edit and store. However the files are IFO, BUP and VOB and the Mac is saying 'unable to import' as it doesn't recognise the file. Help !!

I have a family video DVD that was originally on tape, but is now on disc. I want to import it onto my MacBook to edit and store. However the files are IFO, BUP and VOB and the Mac is saying 'unable to import' as it doesn't recognise the file. Help please !!!!!

Those are the constituent parts of a standard mpeg2 DVD. Storing them is easy: just copy the folder to your hard drive and they will play in DVD player or VLC.
But that format is not intended for editing. To do so:
You need to convert the VOB files in the TS-Folder of the DVD back to DV which iMovie is designed to handle. For that you need mpegStreamclip:
http://www.squared5.com/svideo/mpeg-streamclip-mac.html
which is free, but you must also have the Apple mpeg2 plugin :
http://store.apple.com/us/product/D2187Z/A/quicktime-mpeg-2-playback-component-f or-mac-os-x
(unless you are running Lion in which case see below))
which is a mere $20.
Another possibility is to use DVDxDV:
http://www.dvdxdv.com/NewFolderLookSite/Products/DVDxDV.overview.htm
which costs $25.
For the benefit of others who may read this thread:
Obviously the foregoing only applies to DVDs you have made yourself, or other home-made DVDs that have been given to you. It will NOT work on copy-protected commercial DVDs, which in any case would be illegal.
And from the TOU of these forums:
Keep within the Law
No material may be submitted that is intended to promote or commit an illegal act.
Do not submit software or descriptions of processes that break or otherwise ‘work around’ digital rights management software or hardware. This includes conversations about ‘ripping’ DVDs or working around FairPlay software used on the iTunes Store.
If you are running Lion:
From the MPEG Streamclip homepage
The installer of the MPEG-2 Playback Component may refuse to install the component in Lion. Apple states the component is unnecessary in Lion onwards, however MPEG Streamclip still needs it. See this:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3381
To install the component in Lion, please download MPEG Streamclip 1.9.3b7 beta above; inside the disk image you will find the Utility MPEG2 Component Lion: use it to install the MPEG-2 Playback Component in Lion. The original installer's disk image (QuickTimeMPEG2.dmg) is required.
The current versions of MPEG Streamclip cannot take advantage of the built-in MPEG-2 functionality of Lion. For MPEG-2 files you still need to install the QuickTime MPEG-2 Playback Component, which is not preinstalled in Lion. You don't have to install QuickTime 7.

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In adobe premiere i can share a video to MPEG or some other format perfectly (and you tube) but when i burn the same project to DVD i get frame flicker especially on fast moving image

I have now amended the field settings of the affected clips and burned a new DVD with each option - one version with reversed field applied to all affected clips and another with de-interleaved box checked (but no reverse field). Both look fine on preview or MPEG output but both still 'stutter' on the DVD (possibly worse in the case of de-interleaved option)
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CAMERA FILE
General
ID                                       : 1 (0x1)
Complete name                            : C:\Users\Richard\Videos\Movies\Richards 50th Birthday\00014.MTS
Format                                   : BDAV
Format/Info                              : Blu-ray Video
File size                                : 44.8 MiB
Duration                                 : 14s 335ms
Overall bit rate mode                    : Variable
Overall bit rate                         : 26.2 Mbps
Maximum Overall bit rate                 : 28.0 Mbps
AVI FILE PROPERTIES
General
Complete name                            : E:\c1969-1-01.avi
Format                                   : AVI
Format/Info                              : Audio Video Interleave
Format profile                           : OpenDML
File size                                : 2.68 GiB
Duration                                 : 21mn 26s
Overall bit rate                         : 17.9 Mbps
Video
ID                                       : 0
Format                                   : JPEG
Codec ID                                 : MJPG
Duration                                 : 21mn 26s
Bit rate                                 : 16.3 Mbps
Width                                    : 1 280 pixels
Height                                   : 720 pixels
Display aspect ratio                     : 16:9
Frame rate                               : 16.000 fps
Color space                              : YUV
Chroma subsampling                       : 4:2:2
Bit depth                                : 8 bits
Scan type                                : Interlaced
Scan order                               : Top Field First
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)                       : 1.105
Stream size                              : 2.44 GiB (91%)
Audio
ID                                       : 1
Format                                   : PCM
Format settings, Endianness              : Little
Format settings, Sign                    : Signed
Codec ID                                 : 1
Duration                                 : 21mn 26s
Bit rate mode                            : Constant
Bit rate                                 : 1 536 Kbps
Channel(s)                               : 2 channels
Sampling rate                            : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth                                : 16 bits
Stream size                              : 236 MiB (9%)
Alignment                                : Aligned on interleaves
Interleave, duration                     : 63 ms (1.00 video frame)
Interleave, preload duration             : 62 ms
Video
ID                                       : 4113 (0x1011)
Menu ID                                  : 1 (0x1)
Format                                   : AVC
Format/Info                              : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile                           : [email protected]
Format settings, CABAC                   : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames                : 4 frames
Format settings, GOP                     : M=3, N=24
Codec ID                                 : 27
Duration                                 : 14s 360ms
Bit rate mode                            : Variable
Bit rate                                 : 24.9 Mbps
Maximum bit rate                         : 26.0 Mbps
Width                                    : 1 920 pixels
Height                                   : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio                     : 16:9
Frame rate                               : 50.000 fps
Color space                              : YUV
Chroma subsampling                       : 4:2:0
Bit depth                                : 8 bits
Scan type                                : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)                       : 0.240
Stream size                              : 42.7 MiB (95%)
Audio
ID                                       : 4352 (0x1100)
Menu ID                                  : 1 (0x1)
Format                                   : AC-3
Format/Info                              : Audio Coding 3
Mode extension                           : CM (complete main)
Format settings, Endianness              : Big
Codec ID                                 : 129
Duration                                 : 14s 432ms
Bit rate mode                            : Constant
Bit rate                                 : 256 Kbps
Channel(s)                               : 2 channels
Channel positions                        : Front: L R
Sampling rate                            : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth                                : 16 bits
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Delay relative to video                  : -40ms
Stream size                              : 451 KiB (1%)
Text
ID                                       : 4608 (0x1200)
Menu ID                                  : 1 (0x1)
Format                                   : PGS
Codec ID                                 : 144
Duration                                 : 13s 856ms
Delay relative to video                  : -40ms

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Came across a problem in trying to get music purchased from iTunes to be recognized by other media players (Quicktime or Final Cut Express). I found how to get iTunes to export to cd/dvd disks in AIFF format (and other formats).
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b Audio CD
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I think this is very good idea, it's going to conserve disk space and it's going to play fast in iMovie too. I've purchased the HM-T1A (Flip style) from Panasonic for the very reason that it records direct to iFrame. The reason I did this was for the sake absolute flat out speed. I don't want to convert, transcode, or wait one second to import ANYTHING into iMovie. Similarly the issues presented by up and down conversion of 720p or 1080i footage means you're always expanding to the full rez, then down-rezzing to get it into the Apple AIC format to edit in iMovie. With iFrame it comes right in, never gets touched. And it actually captures more rez believe it or not. Hows that possible you ask? Well, the iFrame format compresses each frame a lot less than typical HD formats, and it doesn't cheat by skipping frames the way the HD formatted clips do. You will find the Data Rate for each size/rez tells it all. On my HM-T1A the data rate for iFrame = 25-26Mbits/sec. All the higher rez 1080i and 720p formats have much lower data rates 17-12Mbits. The reason is the H.264 encoding and MPEG-4 skip frames and use math to re-generate them when played back. When you import that footage, your Mac more or less is re-recording those reconstituted re-inflated video frames at the iFrame rez of 960x540. While others will argue with me, I would argue in return if you're compressing a single video frame a factor of 12:1 or 17:1 there's no free lunch, it's not really HD it's heavily compressed HD. The iFrame actually records each and EVERY frame of video at 30frames/sec. Compresses within those frames and that's what you get in iMovie. No re-generated, re-constituted, re-inflated mathematical algorithms giving you back all the pixels it estimated and threw away. For me iFrame is good enough, it's higher fidelity and FAST, FAST, FAST to get started editing as soon as I import it into an Event.

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Hello as stated I wondered if there is an app that I could use to record a journey that I will make, it will take aprox 3 hours I can charge my ipad up as I go so battery life is not a problem and I have quite a bit of room on my I pad. Is it possible?

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