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I hope someone can help me with this as I have come to a standstill and cannot find a solution.
Having recently bought the iMac 21.5 inch with the iMovie editing software, one of the main reasons for buying was to edit family HD video footage from my Sony HDR-SR12E video camera. All works well until I watch the result on my TV which disappointingly shows that the quality of the HD material is down by about 30% (probably SD video). I tried Final Cut Express but after speaking with Apple, I have found that the two programs use the same codec to convert the native Sony format losing the high HD quality. Herein lies the problem, the Apple codec 'downgrades' the .m2ts native file. Sony say that Mac's are not supported and Apple say that there is no other option (except to shell out £1000 on Final Cut Studio which has a higher transfer rate built into its upgraded codec).
Any ideas how I can keep the high grade HD format, i.e. is there a file transfer formatting program from a third party supplier which I can then use 'in between'???
Any offers would be very much appreciated.
John.
Having recently bought the iMac 21.5 inch with the iMovie editing software, one of the main reasons for buying was to edit family HD video footage from my Sony HDR-SR12E video camera. All works well until I watch the result on my TV which disappointingly shows that the quality of the HD material is down by about 30% (probably SD video). I tried Final Cut Express but after speaking with Apple, I have found that the two programs use the same codec to convert the native Sony format losing the high HD quality. Herein lies the problem, the Apple codec 'downgrades' the .m2ts native file. Sony say that Mac's are not supported and Apple say that there is no other option (except to shell out £1000 on Final Cut Studio which has a higher transfer rate built into its upgraded codec).
Any ideas how I can keep the high grade HD format, i.e. is there a file transfer formatting program from a third party supplier which I can then use 'in between'???
Any offers would be very much appreciated.
John.