• Adobe Premiere Pro

  sony hd camera camera files crazy format

  Posted by Jef Katerberg on November 22, 2007 at 4:18 am

  Hello:

  i have a sony HD AVCHD camera.

  is there any digital (not analog) way to get the footage off of the camera – but in a format that Premiere Pro will recognize.

  currently it must be retrieved in a .M2TS format.

  there is no firewire on this system.

  craziest thing i’ve ever seen.

  thanks in advance for any advice

  Marc Sandlhauser replied 18 years, 4 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Blast1

  November 22, 2007 at 6:14 am

  Isn’t there instructions on how to move the files into your computer in the instruction manual? don’t they give you a USB cable? you could use USB to move the files on the camera into the computer and use something like Nero Vision from ultra 7 to convert the video
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  Marc Sandlhauser

  March 25, 2008 at 3:58 pm

  You didn’t mention whether you’re on a PC or Mac; but for Mac, I use an app called Voltaic (it’s available for PC as well)

  https://shedworx.com/?q=volmac-home.

  For $30 it does a very nice job at converting AVCHD files (for me anyway). I convert them to the iMovie format and they drop right into Premiere Pro. I haven’t noticed a drop in quality either. I usually like to convert to 720p, not 1080i.

  -Marc

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