Hi guys,

I have just bought a Panasonic TM300. I've installed Final Cut Pro, and have tried importing clips into the Power Mac G5 (dual 1.8ghz). Anyway, it comes up with a message saying that AVCHD isn't supported on Power PC based Macs :-( Does anyone know a way around this, or do I have to buy an Intel based Mac Pro?

Thanks in advance of any help offered.

Best regards,

Mike.

AVCHD is only supported on Intel CPU MSCs. There is no workaround that. Here is an excerpt from the manual:" AVCHD support is available only on Intel-based Mac computers." Sorry.....

You can use this program to convert your material to AIC

VoltaicHD | AVCHD, high definition, video converter, QT, Movie Maker, WMV HD | ShedWorx (http://www.shedworx.com/voltaichd)

It´s free to try

Clipwrap will soon come out with Clipwrap2 and they will convert AVCHD to a format you can use.

You can also use Tost 9/10 to convert the material.

So you see there are solutions.

The only thing you can´t do with you computer is using imovie or FCE/FCP to do the conversion, but as you see there is no need for that, when you can use other programs for the conversion


Cheers

Hans

Thanks for the replies guys... Toast 10 seems to convert it ok, but it seems to have to write the clips to a DVD, which can then be imported back into FCP. Quality seems good though. All I have to do now, is figure out how to use FCP ;-)

Best regards,

Mike.