Tips and tricks on the tm900.
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Originally Posted by STR3T /forum/post/21909047
...... if I created a AVCHD Video or an .wmv and wanted to put that back onto the SD Card and hook that up to the TV to re-play...is this doable? Will the camera recognize a full video file?
Seeing a number of folders within the SD Card and/or Camera that are potential: DCIM, MISC and Private with a few folders under Private: \\AVCHD\\BDMV or \\IISVPL
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Originally Posted by STR3T /forum/post/21909122
....What are the steps to put it back on the camera bsprague...do you recall specifics?
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Originally Posted by bsprague /forum/post/0
For example, Panasonic believes you should be able to quickly make HD product that plays nicely in a Panasonic BD Player. Their BD players have SD card slots in the front! You can either put in the SD card directly from the camera or make one with HD Writer. They also make sure you can quickly make HDDVDs from ordinary DVDs for their players.
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Originally Posted by Joatm0n1 /forum/post/21950539
I read all the reviews where some received one with loud fan noise, sent it back and received one without loud fan noise. Some even had to send it back three times before getting a quite one.
The one I received is loud. I called tech support and the rep told me they are aware of this problem and that I need to send it to panasonic repair so they can replace the fan. I sent it to repair, but they are telling me all they did was adjust the fan. WTF kind of crap is this??? Has anyone here had the same experience with panasonic repair. I am really regretting I did not just return it.
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Originally Posted by termite /forum/post/21961777
Hi guys,
I recently bought a TM900 and need some suggestions on editing my video.
I plan to record a concert (my family and friends singing) and want to
record everything in 1080/60p. Then what I want to do is to use my
material to author a DVD and also a Blu-Ray with menues etc and give
to them. I want to make sure I preseve the best quality as much as I can
on the final disks while making sure that they can play the disks at home
in their own regular DVD & blu-ray players.
So the question is what video editing program is the best for this
purpose and how I should render there?
I see 3 popular programs but not sure on any of them..
Cyberlink Power Director 10
Sony Vegas Pro 11
Adobe Premiere Pro 5.5
Appreciate your input ..
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Originally Posted by bsprague /forum/post/21962847
There are two that I use. HD Writer that comes with the camera is absolutely the best at preserving original 1080p quality. It lacks depth in creative features. When I need more transitions, audio control, video control, color correction, additional stabilization, etc I use Adobe Premier Elements 10. It has an amazing feature set. But, it does not render to 1080p for the final product. Instead, it renders to optimized presets for the intended target ranging from iPhones to Blu-Ray discs, or optimized uploads.
Last week I had nearly the same project as yours. My granddaughter had been picked as the only soloist at a grade school Chorus and singing event. 6 Broadway tunes and 4 others.
My camera was a SDT-750, a close cousin to the TM900. I put it in 1080p60 and full iA automatic. I stabilized it with a monopod and sat a 35 feet back.
I broke each song into a separate clip and, the next day, trimmed them with HDWriter. I copied each .m2ts song to my media player for perfect playback on my HD TV and to data DVDs for my son to play in exquisite detail on his laptop.
Next goal was to get granddaughter's solo on the internet. Preserving best possible original quality no longer counts because YouTube and Vimeo will do what they do. Best to "optimize" for the upload. I used Adobe Premier Elements 10 because it has a rendering preset for that.
Next goal was to get a disc playable on Blu-Ray players. Premier Elements is good for that too. It has a built in system to put up to 30 minutes of HD on a plain old DVD disk. The are called an "AVCHD disc". Worked perfectly. All ten songs fit into 30 minutes of space.
Next was some plain old DVDs for the school and my kid, who is to cheap to buy his family a BD player. Again, Premier Elements had the right presets to do that. Of course, the picture quality is not equal to the original, because it is SD.
There is a free download here: Adobe Premier Elements 10 . But since it is only $80, just buy it. Great inexpensive training can be found at Lynda.com Premier Elements .
Good luck and have fun!
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Originally Posted by termite /forum/post/21964251
Thanks Steve & bsprague for the feedback.
bsprague: My concert recording is going to be 2-3hrs long and because
of that I may not likely be able to put everything into a single blu-ray disk
for distribution.
I'll keep my 1080/60p recording with me until we have a better way to
distribute that material as is. In the meantime would premiere allow
me to simply drop frames and output a 1080/30p version? If so will that play
in regular blu-ray players without having to do any special tricks?
Also what tool can create Menus for blu-ray do you know?
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Originally Posted by termite /forum/post/21965345
Thanks I'll check out PE. I hope the preset will not completely re-encode
the video. My hope is to obtain a 1080/30p from the original 1080/60p
by somehow making the tools simply drop frames.
Also I recently built a computer capable of handling these edits with ease
so that probably won't be much of an issue. I put in an i7 coupled with
Nvidia GTX570 because most newer tools are designed to use CUDA from
Nvida cards to handles these type of work with ease. I'm running Win7 64b
so these combinations should have enough horse power.
Thanks again for the suggestions!
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Originally Posted by bsprague /forum/post/21965863
I don't know if it makes the conversion by dropping frames.
Your computer has more power than mine.
Bill
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Originally Posted by termite /forum/post/21965918
Google has helped me to find the following tip from another UK forum.
http://www.avforums.com/forums/camco...ners-club.html
See post #5 from PhilipL on how to do something similar in Sony Vegas.
Does anyone know how to do the same thing in Premiere?
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Originally Posted by termite /forum/post/21964251
I'll keep my 1080/60p recording with me until we have a better way to distribute that material as is.
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Originally Posted by termite /forum/post/21967139
....I think the first thing for me to do is to start learning some of these tools....
Which software do you use? and which file format/resolution for editing and output files?Quote:
Originally Posted by keeb27 /t/1321756/the-official-panasonic-hdc-tm900-owners-thread/1200#post_22135398
I'm still loving my TM900.
I sometimes have issues where the colours don't seem to be as rich, but I'm not sure if that's from my editing suite or the camera settings.
But it's not a major issue.
I've output to Blu Ray a few times and I'm just blown away at how amazing the footage looks and how good it sounds.
Also output to AppleTV 3 files and again, blown away by the quality.
Cheers
Keeb
I tried Panasonic for an upgrade to HD Writer via email to their tech support. The turned me down and said each camera needs the software it came with.Quote:
Originally Posted by alokeprasad /t/1321756/the-official-panasonic-hdc-tm900-owners-thread/1200#post_22135432
Anyone found updated software (from Panasonic or other heavyweights like Adobe, Nero) that handle (input and output) 1080p60 files natively?