Hi,

I have read a lot on a lot of different sites that people is having problems with the AVCHD format and the Mac editing suites.

I have shot som footage at 1080/24p and imported it into iMovie at high. I seems to be looking great, but I have read in another thread that it is being converted into either 30p og 60i. Is that a problem?

Does iMovie maintain the quality when I edit it or does it downscale it?

I would like to save the original footage somewhere until the editing suites gets better. But how do I "backup" the footage from the camera. I would like to put it on an external disk. And it would be nice if I later could use the footage directly from the disk instead of having to copy it back to the camera .

Any difference if I was using FCE?

Best regards
Henrik.

Your camera mounts up just like any other drive. Just drag the .MTS files wherever you want to back them up. With Roxio Toast 8/9 you can watch/transcode them as well.

Ok, thanks. I also figured out to create a image from the flash drive in the camera

When FCE 4.0 came out with supposed full AVCHD support I ran out and bought a Mac Pro. (well okay, it wasn't the only reason, but it sounds good)

I've had nothing but trouble with trying to get the video from my HF10 to look as good as the output from NeroVision. The editing works fine but I can't figure out what export settings give a clean looking 1920*1080 30 FPS. Either its a funny aspect ratio or is choppy.

I've since gone back to NeroVision as it gives the nicest looking output I've been able to find for AVCHD.

If anyone has better luck, please let us know.

pete

Could you explain how you create an image of the flash drive? When you make it, is it 16gb (the whole drive) or something like 4gb (the amount of space taken up)? I also have an apple; I have just used iMovie and imported the AVCHD file in the "high" format. I would like to back up the full quality files though. Thanks man