• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Format avhcd?

  Posted by Francis Riley on February 2, 2009 at 5:53 pm

  Anyone know an easy way to convert Canon HD footage, which uses the AVHCD codec so that it can be edited on FC5 or later?

  Is there a plugin or will I need to purchase software to do so?

  Elijah Lynn replied 17 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Elijah Lynn

  February 3, 2009 at 2:29 am

  [Francis Riley] “Anyone know an easy way to convert Canon HD footage, which uses the AVHCD codec so that it can be edited on FC5 or later?

  Is there a plugin or will I need to purchase software to do so?”

  I own a Canon HF10 and the only way I know of right now is to convert to ProRes. The ProRes turns out nicely and is easily editable but the file size is 5 times larger.

  The next FCS is supposed to be able to edit AVCHD natively. Until then we will have to wait. I have researched this stuff quite a bit. There is a program called Clipwrapper that takes *.m2t and *.m2ts files and rewraps them into *.mov files but it does not work for the AVCHD stuff only mpeg2 stuff.

  I am a bit bummed about this but just hope they do it right when they do get around to it. FCP doesn’t even use most of the 8 cores anyways. Hopefully when they add support, FCP will be optimized for use with multicores and clusters.

  My educated guess is that we will not see the AVCHD capable FCP until AFTER Snow Leopard is released. Once Snow Leopard is released we can start keeping our eyes out for the latest and greatest FCP.

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