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  • Luminist 3 months ago
    When I import AVCHD clips from my HF100 using iMovie '08, the resulting AIC clips are extremely washed out compared to in-camera playback.

    Is the camera boosting saturation on its own during playback, or is something happening during import into iMovie (either a setting I can change, or just a limitation of application/codec)? I realize I can boost saturation in iMovie, but it doesn't look quite as good.

    Thanks!
  • Eugenia Loli-Queru 3 months ago
    Yes, AIC does that to ALL video that gets imported to iMovie, not just AVCHD. If FCE also uses AIC and not ProRes, it does the same thing too. Get a real editor, FCP or Adobe CS3, or get a PC with Vegas.
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  • Videos by Kerry 3 months ago
    For the life of me I cant understand why Apple still uses AIC for everything, even their higher end FCE software. I can understand why they do it with AVCHD, but basic native HDV isnt that hard to do these days & it sure takes up a hell of a lot less space. They could at least give you a choice as long as your hardware can handle it.

    Even FCP does something funky with the raw m2t files from HDV & gives them an mov wrapper. Its enough to make me wanna go with Premiere Pro CS3. Doesn't it do native HDV editing on Mac??
  • Eugenia Loli-Queru 3 months ago
    It's a matter of the internal engine of their editors. They only work well with the well understood formats that they optimized for, and for FCE/iMovie this means only AIC (FCP supports ProRes).

    So yeah, I am not happy with that quality that comes out of iMovie/FCP either. Everything looks mushy and dull.
  • Bo Lorentzen 3 months ago
    Eugenia, Thank you for that insight.

    I have been playing with the idea of going Mac (or rather back to Mac), mostly because thw two vista testers we have at work simply is not stable.... My ponderings have been around the issues of editing my original AVCHD files on the mac.. guess, FCP is the easy option based on your insight.

    Thank you much.
  • Eugenia Loli-Queru 3 months ago
    Or, just get Vegas Platinum 9. Cheaper, and better in terms of direct AVCHD editing.
  • Bo Lorentzen 3 months ago
    Vegas 9....? Yes I would prefer that solution. you have a link.? ;-)
  • Eugenia Loli-Queru 3 months ago
    It should come out soon, only vegas platinum 8 is out right now, but an article online said that version 9 will be out very soon. Easily to have its homepage found with google.
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