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Fast workflow for consumer HD video?
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I’m stepping out of the editing room to do random final cut pro work on set. I get tons of random videos from location and casting people that need to be edited, all are shot on tapeless consumer HD cameras. Each camera’s compression format is different and not all work with the Log and Transfer window. So for mpeg compressed files I use a program called mpeg streamclip to convert to an editable format in FCP. After editing, they always want a DVD, usually in SD for simplicity when playing on a TV. I use compressor to export to DVD.
Between importing and exporting, hours of time are wasted over mostly inconsequential footage. I don’t really care about quality, but I do need a fast work flow.
I just wanted to know if anyone had any suggestions.
My machine is a macbookpro 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo. Final Cut 6.
Thanks in advance for any thoughts,
Geoff
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5 Replies
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Hi Geoffry,
I can not suggest you any brand or model, just to point that is possible that you can find some MPEG-2 based tape-less cancorders that you can edit native. The .m2t files don’t need to be transcoded, just re-wrapped. Fast and no quality lost.
Camcorders based in MP4/AVCHD?H264 and so i think that you will always need to transcode.
Cheers,
rafael -
Another thought is if you can play a sequence in real time you can play out to a DVD recorder. The quality won’t be the same as using Compressor & DVDSP but it might speed up your workflow.
John
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John’s answer is what we do for things like this. Panasonic makes nice stand-alone Dvd recorders for quick one-off copies played right off the timeline.
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Yeah normally I would output to a DVD recorder, but I’m minus a lot of equipment on set at the moment. We’ll see if the boss will foot the bill.
Thanks everyone for your help!
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Hi John,
I have an issue with Video Purifier.
Are you using it?
If so, can you drop me an e-mail?
Best,
Rafael
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