18.05.2009

tony.reno

Thanks to the help of Daniel Clarke, we managed to discover a dirty little Panasonic/Apple P2 ingesting codec secret. 

Recently, (today) we shot on Panasonic HXP3000G with P2 cards using the AVC-Intra codec "AVC-C100 1080i/29.97" (our first mistake: we should have gone with DVProHD).  Then upon trying to ingest the material in FCP6 we were getting "AVC-Intra codec not found" error issues and the clips could not be brought in (we need to output MOV).  

Gallantly, Daniel let his fingers do the walking through Google pages and came in with this: http://forums.creativecow.net/thread/193/869891 .  Eureka!, problem solved.  We have also uploaded this little devil on our own website (unprotected) in case Panasonic ever decide to discontinue it.  AVCIntraDecoder_v1.2.1.pkg.zip

Beware these are the minimum settings needed:

FCP: FinalCutPro6.0.3 
OS：Mac OS X 10.4.11, 10.5.2.
QuickTime 7.4.5

Confirmed system environment
MacPro 2x 3GHz Quad Core Xeon, 8GB-RAM
MacPro 2x 2.66GHz Dual-Core Xeon, 2GB-RAM
MacBookPro 2.33GHz Core2Duo, 2GB-RAM 

Daniel Clarke | P2 Ingest | Panasonic | HX3000 | DVProHD | AVC-Intra codec | P2 | AVCIntraDecoder_v1.2.1.pkg.zip