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AVCHD file from Canon HFS200 to FCP 7 via Log and Trasfer
the trouble I am having is that the file becomes too big when I try to import it from the 32GB SDHC memory card it was recorded on, to FCP and its scratch disk which is a 1TB hard drive.
I know FCP can only import AVCHD files in its own strange ways and they so get much bigger than the original, and in this case the file is 1 hour and 25 minutes long in very very high quality. When I try to import it via log and transfer even on an empty hard rive solely dedicated to this (1TB) the file just gets too big and won’t be imported.
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That “strange way” that FCP imports the footage is to convert the AVCHD footage to ProRes. AVCHD is HIGHLY compressed and difficult to work with (even on NLE’s like Premiere that work with it natively) even if FCP could work with it natively. The best option would be to go into the Log and Transfer preferences, and choose ProRes LT as the import option. Even then, the files will be larger than the originals. They will have to be in order to be editable. Not all shooting formats are editable…they are highly compressed and take a lot of processing power to deal with. Which is why FCP…and Avid…convert to workable formats.
Want to edit AVCHD natively? Get Premiere CS5. And a high end machine.
Shane
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I really just want to import the file in final cut and possibly have it fit in a dedicated hard drive… getting o large it cannot fit on a 1TB seems a bit too much even from a compressed format… right?
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How many hours of footage do you have? 18 hours of ProRes LT at 1080i60 (30fps) will fit in 1 TB.
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i’ve tried as apple pro res 422, and even if it’s one file, 1hour and 25 mins long, it keeps on halting about midway through it telling me I have to stop importing it cause there is not enough space, and again, the terabyte is empty, I am just importing it.
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Go to the FINAL CUT PRO menu, choose SYSTEM SETTINGS, and make sure that that 1TB drive is set as the CAPTURE SCRATCH drive.
Shane
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it is already the capture scratch 🙁
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And in the L&T preferences…what is the codec set to transcode to? ProRes HQ? Did you switch it to LT?
It’s that little sprocket drop down menu…click on that, choose PREFERENCES….then look for the AVCHD…choose the codec to transcode to. LT!
Shane
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Is your hard drive by any chance formatted as FAT32?
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[Alisha Ahmed] “i’ve tried as apple pro res 422, and even if it’s one file, 1hour and 25 mins long, it keeps on halting about midway through it telling me I have to stop importing it cause there is not enough space, and again, the terabyte is empty, I am just importing it.”
Something else is going on, I have a Canon HF10 and have imported clips in ProRes 422 and by no means should it take up 1TB for an hour. I can’t tell you what it is but I can tell you that the solution most likely lies in that you are selecting the wrong disk, the disk has stuff on it (empty trash?), or something to do with the disk.
You want to capture to ProRes 422 and that file should easily fit 10 times over onto a 1TB drive.
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