Getting fustrated with video

[Raptor Mike]

I have a Panasonic HDD camcorder. When I import them with the software that came with it, Image Mixer 3, it comes in as a .mpg But if I use Premier Elements 9 it come in as a .MOD yet under the specs it says they are both video/mpeg. So are they the same?

Now I want make my movies so I can play them on my tablet hooked up to my tele via a HDMI cable. I want to be able to play my videos at the highest quality but I'm not sure what I can get away with. The tablet itself records in MP4.

So what's my options? Converting all my home movies using Premier Elements seems long winded and I dont really want two copys of all my movies stored on my HD.

I have been put off of sorting this for a long time now because it is just so mind boggling and I would really appreciate any help.

Thanks, Mike

One more thing. Why doesnt it all just work, like JPEG???

 

[Raptor Mike]

It's ok... I download an app

 

[st599]

In video, you have to choose a video codec, audio codec and a wrapper file format.

MP4, MPG, MOV, AVI etc. are all file formats, but can contain any combination of audio and video codecs.

To get the highest quality you should encode as few times as possible. MX Player will play just about any combination I've thrown at it.

 

[realspeed]

I to have a Panasonic HC-X900M camcorder and Panasonic does seem to have their own codec. One way around it using Adobe Premier Elements11 ( not tried it on other elements versions) is to put the video onto the computer then drag the file onto , in my case Adobe Premier 11, and that seems to work.
Tried direct from camcorder, not every method admittedly, but premier 11 does not seem to want to accept it.

On my camcorder I have the capability to put videos onto an SD card and still into the camera 32GB memory keeping both seperate or working in tandem.

I can put the SD card into a card reader as well and avoid the Panasonic editing suite and transfer movie files direct to the computer that way and work from there to Elements premier 11.

Don't know if this is much help but it is my way of getting videos to adobe



So card into card reader and (open files to view) in drop down- comes up with a choice of DCIM or private- choose private and you get AVHCD box- next is AVCHDTN/BDMW/PANA_EXT- click on BDMW and you get clipinfo/playlist/stream/index.bdm/movieobj.bmd

Go onto stream and all your movie files are there to drag onto premier elements or move to where ever you want with no quality loss either

I do initially put my movies onto disc via camcorder editing suite but that is not what you asked about

On my Panasonic editing suite is HDWriterAE4.1

So why not put the videos straight onto a DVD disc and use that?

 

[st599]

AVCHD is a consumer profile of H.264. (Panasonic's Pro profile is tagged AVC-Ultra)

Any H.264 decoder capable of HD should work - only problem is convincing the decoder that the file is H.264. Sounds like the drag and drop route works for you.

 

[Raptor Mike]

I to have a Panasonic HC-X900M camcorder and Panasonic does seem to have their own codec. One way around it using Adobe Premier Elements11 ( not tried it on other elements versions) is to put the video onto the computer then drag the file onto , in my case Adobe Premier 11, and that seems to work.
Tried direct from camcorder, not every method admittedly, but premier 11 does not seem to want to accept it.

On my camcorder I have the capability to put videos onto an SD card and still into the camera 32GB memory keeping both seperate or working in tandem.

I can put the SD card into a card reader as well and avoid the Panasonic editing suite and transfer movie files direct to the computer that way and work from there to Elements premier 11.

Don't know if this is much help but it is my way of getting videos to adobe



So card into card reader and (open files to view) in drop down- comes up with a choice of DCIM or private- choose private and you get AVHCD box- next is AVCHDTN/BDMW/PANA_EXT- click on BDMW and you get clipinfo/playlist/stream/index.bdm/movieobj.bmd

Go onto stream and all your movie files are there to drag onto premier elements or move to where ever you want with no quality loss either

I do initially put my movies onto disc via camcorder editing suite but that is not what you asked about

On my Panasonic editing suite is HDWriterAE4.1

So why not put the videos straight onto a DVD disc and use that?

I did find I can upload from the HD on the camcorder to prem 9 avoiding using image mixer, which is nice. It has an SD card slot but I never use it, I think its just for photos.