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converting avchd files for use in premiere
hi everyone, I had another topic addressing some of this, but it went stale or something so I’m making another one to see if anyone can help.
I want to convert my AVCHD footage to either prores, cineform or DNxHD, for easier editing in premiere. I was told that I could use either prelude or adobe media encoder to do this, but in prelude none of those export options are available, and in adobe media encoder, I can’t even get it to import my .mts files, either through the camera or hard drive. can someone walk me through how to do it? thanks!
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Might look at ClipWrap2 then. Prelude looks like a simple logging and editing app…and when I TRANSCODE, it opens adobe Media Encoder.
I guess I misunderstood what PRELUDE was.
Shane
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We convert all our AVCHD files to ProRes using Prelude. You need to download the ProRes codecs from Adobe so they will show up. Plus, for it to work you do need to have a registered ProRes application like FinalCut installed on the same machine to be able to use the ProRes.
Bars & Tone
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Compressor…it’s cheaper. Unless you already have Final Cut.
Shane
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Thanks for the tips, I seriously searched for like four hours yesterday for a sollution. So there’s no free option huh? I spent a ton of money on this stuff already, I guess I could spend a little more to get it to work, but I was hoping that gopro cineform thing downloaded the codecs, or even one of those avid codecs would work.
you dont happen to know if imovie has the prores codecs do you? I have that! haha.
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[David Lord] “you dont happen to know if imovie has the prores codecs do you?”
iMovie doesn’t have those…it does Apple Intermediate codec. It isn’t a Pro app, and ProRes is only part of the Apple Pro Apps.
I’m hearing Prelude should work for this, and that’s free with Adobe.
Shane
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Right, so back full circle… I can’t get prelude to work. There are no transcode options for any of those formats. In fact there are only audio options for transcoding, see here.
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How are you bringing these clips in?
This behavior makes me winder if you’re loading the AVCHD file properly as if you dig down to the specific mts file, lots of metadata is getting bypassed.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
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I copied the contents of my card onto my hard drive. then in prelude I went to ingest, and composed the path to the avchd folder and opened up the first. mts file just to test it out. do you know if I should be opening it differently?
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It sounds like you’re doing it right…
You couldn’t change the trancode target from AAC audio?
I can get all my transcode options to come up on my Windows system…not sure if it’s somehow different on Mac?
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
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https://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/thankyou.jsp?ftpID=5411&fileID=5030
Download these. Then go to Avid and get their DNxHD ones too.
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