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Converting AVCHD to H.264 in compressor. Is this possible?
I have many hours of video that I shot on a small Canon HF10 AVCHD camcorder. In order for me to watch it on the octo I have to use VLC media player. It works “ok”. To watch it on XP I also use VLC. I now have to start distributing this footage to other people for viewing but VLC doesn’t work the same on everyone’s computers. It would be much easier to batch convert to H.264 and then distribute via Dropbox.
I have tried a few different times to do this in compressor and am not having any luck. Has anyone successfully done this? What would you do?
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I should add that I know AVCHD is technically H.264 but not the kind that plays in Quicktime.
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You could use Log & Transfer in Final Cut Pro to convert to ProRes and then you that in Compressor to encode to H.264 .mov.
The problem is Compressor doesn’t like the AVC Transport Streams from the Canon HF camera whereas FCP can transcode. Too bad they didn’t include that ability in Compressor.
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Thanks for the reply Craig. Yeah, I know that is an option I just thought I could do this within compressor.
Pretty lame that I have to go through that long extra step.
Hurry up already Apple!
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Toast seems to like AVCHD and also offers reasonably codec agnostic transcoding … maybe that will work for you?
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