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AVCHD Workflow advice CS6 for exporting with no compression?
I’m copying the entire contents of my SD card to an external hard drive. I would like to ingest the footage from the folders and export into a format that will provide the highest quality possible, with no compression if possible, and I could then simply upload that high quality version to Youtube, burn it to a DVD, keep it backed up as a master file, etc. this way I do not end up with my original AVCHD folder full of footage from the SD card and a bunch of different encoded versions of the same video on my drive. Sort of what a self-contained QT file from FCP 6-7 was.
Is there a way to simply export footage from CS6 with no compression like this so I can delete my AVCHD folders and keep just exported video files?
Thanks in advance.
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Well…no compression would yield files that would run about 125 Mega-BYTES a second. Your AVCHD is probably around 24 MegaBITS a second…
So…you’d end up with a file ~42X larger that would look the same…you’d make some storage dealer very happy.
Is there a problem with keeping the camera files in archive?
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
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Hi
This is quite an old thread but my query is very similar. If anyone reads this and can help me at all I’d greatly appreciate it.
I work in a university art school department and support our students when making short films.
We’ve just migrated from FCP7 / FCPX to Premiere Pro and we use Mac computers. We’re used to the option of exporting a quicktime movie using the current sequence settings from an FCP project, which would usually be the Pro Res codec, or sometimes H.264 in FCPX.
This would be a master export file for archive or backup purposes. Or possibly just a short clip or sequence that we may want to re-import into a sequence. The idea being the exported file has not been compressed any further than it is already – it’s being exported at full quality. In FCP this was always the default export option.
I am unsure how to achieve this with Premiere Pro (CC) when working with AVCHD. As far as I know, PPro works natively with AVCHD files. In which case, what should be chosen as the export codec to retain the same quality? In the Media Export window, when selecting ‘match sequence settings’ PPro always selects the Mpeg I-frame codec, no matter what sequence settings I’m working in (I’m completely unfamiliar with Mpeg I-frame and don’t know its uses).
Certainly one could keep the original AVCHD material. But then you would also need the PPro project to play the sequence. That is not then a proper standalone master file of an edit. I am also wary of relying on AVCHD source material, as if the original file structure is lost (and our students lose things a lot!) then the footage may no longer be read by an NLE.
I realise my confusion probably stems from a general technical ignorance on my part and I’m sure the CC experts can put me right!
Many Thanks
Ben
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