Hi,

I'm demoing your product(s) (Voltaic & Flamingo) to help with management of AVCHD files off a Sony HDR-CX300, primarily it solves the problem that iMovie has where it will only recognize the camera if plugged in (or a disk image of the memory) and not if you just copy the MTS files over. Conversions are working pretty well so far.

One question - can VoltaicHD show a "real time" preview of the MTS file? I know it shows a "2 frames per second" preview with no sound, but I cannot find a way to have it show a real time preview with audio. The reason I ask is because iMovie 08 does this when I connect the camera (or mount a disk image). When it gives me the import window, it shows all my clips, and I can *immediately* play any of them with sound - and far as I can tell there's not conversion/transcoding going on in the background. To be clear, this is the step before I tell it to import the clips that I've selected, and so has not yet done the conversion to AIC.

This is a really nice feature, but I can't figure out how to make your product do this. Is it possible?

Bigger picture what I want to be able to do is to winnow down or "cull" back my junk clips immediately after transferring them from my card. I don't want to have to convert/transcode first (taking lots of time) to do that, and I need more than 2fps with audio to do that. iMovie gives me an interface to do that. Is there another way I can do that with your products?

Let me know if my description of the issue is not clear.

I'm still evaluating your product and it seems really good in many respects, but this one issue would really impede my desired workflow. I'm hoping there's a way to do what I've described above. Please let me know.

Thanks
Chris