converting avchd files for use in premiere

[Larry Asbell]

Isn’t the correct way to import tapeless media is to use Premiere’s Media Browser rather that the Import dialog?

[David Lord]

thank for the replies, I was out of town for the weekend, so I hope somebody is still following this thread. I downloaded files at the link you sent, (but I still dont have finalcut so I dont think those are going to work) I also went to avid and downloaded their codec file that includes DNxHD. I’m not sure if there’s another step after that, but I’m still not seeing either of those in the transcode options in prelude. Remember I’m totally ignorant to all of this, so if there was something I was supposed to do after downloading and installing the codecs, let me know 🙂

[Brendan Macrae]

Step by step workflow:

1.Get codecs. I used the cineform codecs that get automaticaly installed with the free cineform studio.

2.Create preset in Adobe Media Encoder. Here you will choose a format, video codec (cineform)and video settings. This preset will then be shown as a trasncode option in Prelude.

3.Transcode in Prelude. Ingest your media and click the “transfer to destination” option and the “transcode” option. Whithin the format of your preset you should find the preset that you created.

Thats it, Adobe Media Encoder should take it from there and you should have new files created in the specified folder.