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AVCHD Copying
I have just bought a Panasonic Camcorder HDC-SD100. Using the bundled HD Writer 2.6E for HDC editing software seems to work okay when copying the clips from the unit onto my PC. The problem I have is, if I put the SD card into a card reader and try to open it in Premier Pro CS4. All I can view are stills (jpeg files) and no video files are shown.
Also, If I copy the scenes onto my PC with HD Writer I cannot open them in any other editing software. Where am I going wrong and how can I get the footage into Premier Pro 4?
My PC is new and 4gb of Ram plus Intel Core 2 Quad and loads of storage.
I’m new to this game, so treat me gently please!
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I am not sure of the file structure that your camera encodes onto your SD card, but the AVCHD files that my Panasonic HMC 70 lays down on SD cards has several layers. If I drill down to the actual files that reside in the Stream sub-folder, they can be imported into Adobe CS4’s Project directory. However, some programs cannot find these files unless you give them the entire set of folders that exist on the very first layer of the SD card. An example of this is the Main Concept AVCHD Transcoder (free on the Panasonic and Main Concept sites), that will speedily batch encode AVCHD to Avi 720 x 480 files with choice of anamorphic, letterbox or 4 x 3 edge crop (with a little too much loss of quality, in my opinion).
John D. Frey
25 Year owner/operator of two California-based production studios.Digital West Video Productions of San Luis Obispo and Inland Images of Lake Elsinore
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