GH2 Clips won't play on my Macbook at DVinfo.net

Joe Lowery · September 20th, 2012, 10:41 PM

Greetings,

I have just recently acquired a GH2 to supplement my EX3. I have begun using the camera for family events with the 14-140mm lens. Initially, I shot some small video and photo clips at smaller resolutions onto an older 1Gig card that played back fine in the camera and transferred and was immediately available for play back on my 3 year old Macbook Pro running 10.5.8. All of the photos and video clips also transferred and played back fine inside of iphoto.

I then just tried to download and look at some pictures and video that I shot on a paid job in the 24p and HDR video settings. These were shot on a high speed 20mb/sec San Disk16Gig card. Everything (video and photos) plays back fine in the camera, however, I can only get the photo clips to display but none of the video clips on this same Mac.

I'm sure that there is an easy fix (hopefully) or it's something simple that I'm overlooking.

William Hohauser · September 21st, 2012, 05:35 AM

Are you using an editing program? IMovie should see the files but if that doesn't work you could try and use a demo version of ClipWrap to convert the files to QuickTime directly off the SDcard.

Bob Richardson · September 21st, 2012, 09:08 AM

GH2 clips won't play natively in the QuickTime player, but you can convert them (losslessly) to .MOV using ClipWrap, mentioned above.

You can also view the .MTS files directly from the camera's card using VLC, a free open-source media player.

VideoLAN - Official page for VLC media player, the Open Source video framework!

Note that there are some issues with display artifacts in VLC as you skip around in the file but don't panic, they'll be fine after you convert them.

Thomas Smet · September 21st, 2012, 03:43 PM

Mountain Lion will now play the clips directly although it is a bit of an odd way of doing it.

Alan Halfhill · September 25th, 2012, 02:01 PM

There is a plug-in from Panasonic to play .MTS in Quicktime Player - AVC Importer plug-in for Quicktime.

https://eww.pass.panasonic.co.jp/pro...pt/agree_e.htm

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September 20th, 2012, 10:41 PM	#1
Joe Lowery New Boot Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Washington, DC Posts: 16	GH2 Clips won't play on my Macbook Greetings, I have just recently acquired a GH2 to supplement my EX3. I have begun using the camera for family events with the 14-140mm lens. Initially, I shot some small video and photo clips at smaller resolutions onto an older 1Gig card that played back fine in the camera and transferred and was immediately available for play back on my 3 year old Macbook Pro running 10.5.8. All of the photos and video clips also transferred and played back fine inside of iphoto. I then just tried to download and look at some pictures and video that I shot on a paid job in the 24p and HDR video settings. These were shot on a high speed 20mb/sec San Disk16Gig card. Everything (video and photos) plays back fine in the camera, however, I can only get the photo clips to display but none of the video clips on this same Mac. I'm sure that there is an easy fix (hopefully) or it's something simple that I'm overlooking.

September 21st, 2012, 05:35 AM	#2
William Hohauser Inner Circle Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: New York City Posts: 2,650	Re: GH2 Clips won't play on my Macbook Are you using an editing program? IMovie should see the files but if that doesn't work you could try and use a demo version of ClipWrap to convert the files to QuickTime directly off the SDcard. __________________ William Hohauser - New York City Producer/Edit/Camera/Animation

September 21st, 2012, 09:08 AM	#3
Bob Richardson Regular Crew Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Portland, OR Posts: 178	Re: GH2 Clips won't play on my Macbook GH2 clips won't play natively in the QuickTime player, but you can convert them (losslessly) to .MOV using ClipWrap, mentioned above. You can also view the .MTS files directly from the camera's card using VLC, a free open-source media player. VideoLAN - Official page for VLC media player, the Open Source video framework! Note that there are some issues with display artifacts in VLC as you skip around in the file but don't panic, they'll be fine after you convert them.

September 21st, 2012, 03:43 PM	#4
Thomas Smet Trustee Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Milwaukee, WI Posts: 1,719	Re: GH2 Clips won't play on my Macbook Mountain Lion will now play the clips directly although it is a bit of an odd way of doing it.

September 25th, 2012, 02:01 PM	#5
Alan Halfhill Regular Crew Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Sequim, WA Posts: 127	Re: GH2 Clips won't play on my Macbook There is a plug-in from Panasonic to play .MTS in Quicktime Player - AVC Importer plug-in for Quicktime. https://eww.pass.panasonic.co.jp/pro...pt/agree_e.htm The Panasonic GH2 » FrugalFilmmakers.com __________________ Alan FrugalFilmmakers.com