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Automator workflow to open GH2 stream folder

rsquires — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 09:41:41 +0000

I am trying to automate the process of getting to the Stream folder in Mac OSX. It would be great to be able to drag the SD card folder onto an application that opened the stream folder so you can access the raw mts files. In automator you can use a process called Watch me Do and this basically records your mouse movements and menu options. I have basically run through the usual way, highlighting Private -show package contents, etc. It seems to record all the entries but when I run it, it barfs and falls over at the first Show package contents. I think this would be really useful for the Mac OSX folks.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, in getting some sort of automation set up

Mountain Lion updated to 10.8.3. Windows 8 Boot Camp support. Cuda Updated

driftwood — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 12:33:50 +0000

Having just looked at the Gold Master release of OSX Mountain Lion there appears to be a little problem opening our mts files straight from the card for viewing. It seems the Private folder is registered to open with Quicktime X, and, although you get to see your thumbnails of your card's clips, when you double-click to open each of the mts streams you are met with a 'Document Could Not Be Opened... unknown error' on the "BDMV" folder.

You then have to Right-Click 'Show Package Contents' to Get inside each subfolder, down to the Stream folder before you can open your .mts files for playback. This also happens whether registered mts files are with movist or not.

Let's hope they sort out native support of the AVC/mts/mpeg-4/h264 standard before the release version!

Update: With 10.8.3 The same problem persists with opening SD cards' MTS files. You'll have to go through the usual Open Package Contents or rename the Private Folder to get inside the folder tree.

Processing TimeBuster on Mac OSX

2ge — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 01:05:59 +0000

Hi guys,

new happy owner of GH2 here. First of all, thanks for all of this, I bought the camera, and one of the main reason was I can hack it (I was thinking to buy Olympus OMD5). Anyway, I like to do some Time Lapses, so I found TimeBuster setting, currently using "24h Timebuster FlowMotion 2.02".

I tried to process the output, I load timelapse into Final Cut Pro, but it looks like file is broken - I understand why it looks like that.

Also, I am aware of the program GH13 Timelapser, which should do the job on Windows. There might be also possibility to process the output using Avisynth and some scripting.

But what about some OSX program ? Or I have to install VMWare/Parallers to process it ?

Thanks.

OSX video Optimization

QuinEtiam — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 17:27:59 +0000

I have an early 2009 13' Macbook. 2.25Ghz C2D 4GB RAM 250 GB 5400rpm Hard Drive

As you can imagine it would be slow trying work with HD video files, especially huge AIC and ProRes files.

I got a 16GB Patriot Supersonic Boost XT USB 3.0 Flash Drive and dump all the AIC and ProRes files on there instead on the Hard drive.

I hit a bottle neck of around 100Mbps while playing in QT and of course any kind of editing just bogged down.

But after some tweaks I can smoothly play a 1080 60p AIC/ProRes file at 200Mbps, the file is 1.16GB and 50 seconds in length.

mtscopy.app

stoney — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 00:02:44 +0000

Steps to make it easy to copy MTS files to your selected folder for OSX users. Edit: This is old script. Use the one on my latest file.

Insert SDHC card. Rename "NO NAME" to "SDHC". The card should contain some MTS files.

Get the attachment.
Double clicking on it will launch AppleScript Editor.
Search YOUR_PATH.
Replace it with your base path. e.g. /Users/Billy/Movies
Press the Run button on the top of the editor and see if it's working.
If it works, save it as an application. File -> Save As -> File Format: Application.
Mobe the application file to your Applications.

BTW... I don't know crap about AppleScript. I just googled and found a sample and tweaked some params.

Mac: PTool, How to store settings files

rsquires — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 19:34:28 +0000

I am using Wine in OSX to create a version of PTools that runs on the mac. I have used this ever since I started with the GH1 and now the GH2. Of course it works fine, but the caveat is I have to always manually input settings rather than if this was running natively on Windows where the settings automatically populate PTool when in the same folder. Does anyone know how I do this with Wine or is it just the limits of using PTool on a mac.

OS X Lion, Note to self

TommiH — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 12:01:07 +0000

Don't try to install Lion on an old Mac Mini with only 1GB RAM connected to your TV. Definitely don't erase you start-up disk before trying. :D Oh well, Snow Leopard re-install might be just as fun! :D No big-screen vimeo viewing for awhile.. :D