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Capturing from AVCHD camera into FCP 5.1.4
Hi there – I posted this on the FCP basic forum but did not get much response so i will try here…..
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
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3 Replies
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You need FCP 6 if you want to transfer directly from an AVCHD camera into FCP. Otherwise, you’ll need to transcode using compressor or MPEG Streamclip or similar.
Arnie
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I’ll compete for totally stupid… I have a Canon HF100 (uses avchd flash card) and spent eons trying to parse how to get footage into FCP 6. It’s true that only an Intel mac or equivalent, and FCPv6 – and god help you, imovie8 – can ingest avchd. There’s no firewire on the HF100, using the little usb flashcard reader takes forever.
Resorted to a $35 program – Voltaic, which does a nice job decompressing the .MTS files without FPC’s compulsory blind 1920 to 1440 HD conversion. Voltaic makes them into QT .mov files (at selectable size), and does it relatively fast.
Now the totally stupid: those .mov files imported into FCP6 display white in the viewer unless they’re playing. I’m a total noob in FC, don’t know if it’s even viable working with such Imported files, as all tutorials talk about is Log & Capture or Log & Transfer, neither of which these .mov files work with. -
someone recommend me MOD video converter. I used it to convert MOD to flv and avi. works excellent. It can also convert MOD to MOV/MP4.then you can import into FCP or FCE for editing, if you want a try. Following is a step by step guide:
https://forums.about.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?nav=messages&webtag=ab-camcorders&tid=207
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