Happy birthday! Teh forum would not be the same without your input.

Are there any enhancements beyond 6581? Thanks Bertrand!

In 1 - Look in Vitascene (plugin in Studio 11 and Studio 12 Ultimate versions. Demos are available on the proDAD website. Cam't comment about 2.

Richard, Same thing happened when I bought my HDC-SD1.  Batteries were very scarce and some places selling them, weren't selling truly compatible batteries. A little waiting paid off - about 2 months if I recall. Then there were a number of places offering batteries. I would try looking at Panasonic.com and see if they have any in stock if ...

IanS, This is a known bug in 12.0. It is only true for some (perhaps only the HDC-SD1). It is fixed in the current 12.1 beta version (avaialble for download).

In my experience, it is usually Windows Vista search. Go into Services>Windows Search and click disable in the properties. You can confirm this by going to Task Manager>Perfiormance>Advanced and look at what is using the disc to read/write. You will likely see a bunch of threads for SearchIndexer.

Yes, The .m2ts are just AVCHD format. Use the Import function (it is not a capture).

Paul Ekert:I'm not getting your workflow. Which scenes are you using from the Fun Vacation? I can make a transition disappear!  I have slightly modified the recipe. 1. Load Our Fun Vacation 2. Click cursor in middle of ANY scene  3. Add a dissolve after that clip by dragging transition to timeline between any 2 ...

I can make a transition disappear! 1. Load Our Fun Vacation 2. Add dissolve transition after clip of face painting (~35 s) 3. Ctrl C copy first clip 4. Ctl V paste (without moving cursor) 5. My new dissolve transition gets deleted. Same thing with HFX and other transitions as well.

Patch install took awhile computing disc space (like previous beta) Once it got going, was reasonably fast Did not ask for disc () during install Seems like Studio starts up MUCH faster (I think this started with previous beta) HFX libraries seems to rebuild without any issue once I add new ones.