The Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX7 ($499) is the long-awaited replacement to the very popular DMC-LX5. The LX5 (and its predecessors) was well known for its low light ability, and Panasonic has improved on that in two ways. First, there's the LX7's lens: with a maximum aperture range of F1.4 - F2.3, it lets in way more light than what you'd find on a compact camera. The fast aperture range also allows for better background blurring than what you'll find on nearly every fixed-lens camera on the market. In addition, the LX7's sensor and image processor have both been improved, allowing for less noise at high sensitivities. The DMC-LX7 records high-resolution full-HD 1,920 x 1,080 60p (NTSC) videos in AVCHD Progressive (MPEG-4 / H.264) format. If you want to edit your videos on a computer or upload them to a website, the DMC-LX7 can record full HD 1,920 x 1,080 30p (NTSC) videos in MP4 format.
In addition to AVCHD recording, the tiny DMC-LX7 Camera is also able to shoot MP4 footage in 1080p. theoretically speaking, most NLESs are able to handle AVCHD and MP4 natively (or under help of plug-ins), but in reality, due to computer environment or some unknown reasons, people often have troubles to work with them.
If you have import while importing and editing Panasonic DMC-LX7 AVCHD in NLE programs like FCP (X), iMovie, FCE and Avid. we would recommend that you transcode DMC-LX7 footage to an intermediate format, which is a necessity for your editing apps. To do format conversion, Here AVCHD Video Converter is highly recommended. You can download a free trial to see if it works as you expected.
Free download AVCHD converter for working with DMC-LX7 AVCHD files on Mac
Step 1. Install and launch the AVCHD Video Converter. click the "Add Video" or "Add from folder" button to import AVCHD files to the video converter from your computer or camcorder.
Step 2. Select output format for NLEs
1. To be able to convert DMC-LX7 AVCHD for Final Cut Pro X/6/7, Click on "Format" bar and select 'Apple ProRes 422 (*.mov)' as output format from "Final Cut Pro" column. The ingested DMC-LX7 files could be significantly larger than the original files, which has a much higher compression ratio than Apple ProRes. If you prefer smaller file size, choose “Apple ProRes 422 (LT) (*.mov)” instead. The “Apple ProRes 422 (Proxy) (*.mov)” format offers file size at SD levels and is recommended for 480i/p and 576i/p shootings.
2. To be able to transcode DMC-LX7 AVCHD footage for iMovie and FCP, Click on "Format" bar and choose 'Apple InterMediate Codec (AIC) (*.mov)' as output format from "iMovie and Final Cut Express" column.
3. To be able to rewrap DMC-LX7 AVCHD files for Avid, Click on "Format" bar and choose 'Avid DNxHD (*.mov)' as output format from "Avid" column.
Step 3. If you like, You also can click “Settings” to set video frame rate, video size and Video Bitrate as you want.
Step 4. Before starting the conversion, you can choose to edit the video as you like. When all settings are done, simply click on the "Convert" button and the conversion will start automatically. Soon after the conversion completed, you can hit 'Open' button to get the generated files for post production in NLEs.
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