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capture from consumer camera
a client dropped off his consumer camera and wants me to capture the footage they took, burn to disk and then create a commercial from it.
the camera is Panasonic HDC-HS9 @1920p – its a tapeless camera and it has no firewire output — rather a component output that wants to plug into USB.
they captured to a PC using a trial version of Coral editing software and a USB 1 connection.
I can’t seem to capture anything with FCP or IMovie (system specs below)
it has some weird format AVCHDTN
Has anyone else came across this — know any workarounds?
best, M/
G5 Mac OS X (10.4.9) 2x 2.6G DCPs, 3.5GB Ram, 2x160GHDs + 2x320G External HDs, DualCRT’s, Shuttle Pro
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3 Replies
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Did you try Log and Transfer? I recently did a job that was shot using a AVCHD camera, though I was only given the SD card, but I just used the Log and Transfer tool and set the preferences to transcode the footage to Pro Res and I was in business.
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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Richard
someone on the Apple forum also mentioned this but I could not find “Log & Transfer” — only Log & Capture or Batch Capture.
I have FCP 5. is the transfer option only on the latest version maybe?
anyhow, I forgot I have simple dvd recorder – so what Im doing is, using the av output to the dvd recorder. at least then it will be on dvd
I hate to date myself, but before the digital age, there were only 2 or 3 formats 8m (+ hi8 and super8) 16m and 35m. this standard kept for like 50 years in the movie business – long enough for editors to master their craft.
Now they change formats to create functional obsolescants every few months!
nothing wrong with dv tape!
best, Phil
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ok apparently I have to re-open this case…
I was able to make a dvd from the footage of the Panasonic camera noted above.
then I tried to use “MPEG Streamclip (1.9)” to try to convert the dvd to a useable format for FCP.
Tried several different MPEG settings but the video turned out jumpy, grainy, and 1/4 size on sone settings as well.
has anyone encountered these problems with MPEG Streamclip 1.9?
also, I have a home camera (a tape camera) Sony DCR-HC52. this camera has a line in option but I just found out that the cable to do this with is optional (of course)
so I will try to buy this cable (they call it “I Link”) They claim the camcorder will record from another device. I was hoping I would be able to play from the DVD recorder out to the mini dv tape. this would solve everything but Im not sure that the ILink cable, ends in AV — I think the other end might be ILink format as well, in which case, we would be needing two Ilinkable devices.
which brings us back to …. does anyone know anything about MPEG Streamclip?
best, Phil
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