• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Capturing from AVCHD camera into FCP 5.1.4

  Posted by Julius Miller on June 9, 2009 at 1:14 am

  Hi there

  Excuse me if this is just totally stupid BUT….

  I am going to upgrade to a new HD camera (from PD100 DVCAM) and was considering one that uses AVCHD. My problem is that from all i have read you need a super fast new Mac Pro to edit this stuff or you can convert it to another format using another program (that takes ages) that makes it easier to edit in FCP 5.1.4…..

  My question is… Can you capture to another format DIRECTLY from the cameras firewire output (not sure which camera yet but i guess if you could do it from one you could do it from others??????) Or say if i capture via the cameras component outputs (to say a KONA 2 card) what drop in quality will there be???

  This will not be for any sort of broadcast just for my own use…

  Thanks for any help…

  Julius

  Matt Sepeta replied 16 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Matt Sepeta

  June 9, 2009 at 4:11 pm

  My two cents with AVCHD and fw 5.1.4….

  I rented a HMC150 that captures AVCHD onto SDHC cards, and it was not at all efficient using FCP 5.1.4. I determined VoltaicHD was my best bed for transcoding, and it took (estimate) 6x RT to change the .mts files to .mov files with Apple Intermediate codec.

  Constant rendering, and lots of time wasted. I was running a imac with 4gb and 2.8 ghz duo core and it did work pretty smoothly though.

  After all of my initial research and my experience, I would not consider buying an avchd cam unless I upgraded FCP.

  Good Day

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