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Howto: Importing Archived ACVHD from Vixia into FCPX – MTS and M2t
I’ve found a way to import my archived Canon Vixia HF-S10 footage and my archived Adobe Onlocation footage into FCPX without time consuming transcoding.
I’m using Media Converter with the AVCHD Re-wrap plugin to re-rwap my OnLocation M2T files, and Panasonic’s AVCCAM Rstorer to rebuild the AVCHD file structure that FCPX needs to import a ‘camera archive.’
https://media-converter.sourceforge.net
https://eww.pass.panasonic.co.jp/pro-av/support/dload/avccam_restorer/dl_e.htm
Here’s a quick Youtube tutorial I created:
https://youtu.be/C2SfAu3J1TgSome contents or functionalities here are not available due to your cookie preferences!This happens because the functionality/content marked as “Google Youtube” uses cookies that you choosed to keep disabled. In order to view this content or use this functionality, please enable cookies: click here to open your cookie preferences.
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[Chris Good] “I’ve found a way to import my archived Canon Vixia HF-S10 footage and my archived Adobe Onlocation footage into FCPX without time consuming transcoding.”
Of course if you archive the entire AVCHD you can import that into FCPX, no transcoding needed at all. Personally, that’s what I think people should be doing to begin with. Why make things difficult by tossing out metadata that FCPX uses?
The one think I long for is a means to split AVCHD folder so that 32GB cards can be broken across 23GB Blu-ray data disks for optical disk archival.
The other tools you mention are certainly interesting an valuable. Not having to rewrap even when one needs to rescue “orphaned” media files is very good.
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[Craig Seeman] “Of course if you archive the entire AVCHD you can import that into FCPX, no transcoding needed at all.”
Yeah, it sounds simple, but working in Premiere for several years, I never had a reason to import the whole AVCHD archive. (I’m not discounting that there may be a good reason to have copied the whole AVCHD, it was just never an issue before). I only copied the relevant MTS files to the folder for that project then imported them straight into Premiere. The fact that FCPX can only read the MTS files if they are in an AVCHD folder is kind of annoying.
For your BluRay split, you could pull the MTS files out of their current AVCHD folder and divide them into 23GB chunks then use the Panasonic utility to rebuild it.
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[Chris Good] “The fact that FCPX can only read the MTS files if they are in an AVCHD folder is kind of annoying.”
Agreed. I’ve already had a couple of jobs where clients just handed me .mts files.
[Chris Good] “For your BluRay split, you could pull the MTS files out of their current AVCHD folder and divide them into 23GB chunks then use the Panasonic utility to rebuild it.”
I’d like to see something like Sony ClipBrowser does though. It can break up a XDCAM EX BPAV folder and keep the metadata intact. I wonder why nobody had done that for AVCHD yet. The codec may be different but I’d think the issues and technology would be the same.
I’ll have a look at the Panasonic utility.
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