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Importing AVC-Intra footage originally transcoded by FCP into Premiere
I’m working in a production house where we’ve used Final Cut Pro for many years, but are now considering switching over to Adobe Premiere CS5 on Windows. A problem I’m facing is that the footage we shot with a specific camera is not opening or playing on Windows at all, despite the Apple ProRes codec I installed on the Windows machine. The footage won’t play within any video player (including VLC), and Premiere just gives me an error message when I try importing it.
The camera in question is the Panasonic AG-HPX300 which records in AVC-Intra 50 and 100. We originally used Final Cut Pro to transcode the footage into MOV files and that’s all we have to work with now.
In Premiere on Windows, I have no trouble importing and playing back footage we transcoded in FCP that was shot with a Canon 7D or with the Panasonic HVX200. The problem is just with footage shot with the Panasonic HPX300.
I’ve tried installing codecs for AVC-Intra on Windows, but nothing has worked so far. Maybe I haven’t found the right one yet?
Any help would be appreciated.
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Did you TRANSCODE the footage to ProRes when you imported into FCP via Log and Transfer? Or did you RE-WRAP the footage as AVCIntra? If you re-wrapped, it might not work.
Shane
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In FCP when I open up Log and Transfer and then go to Import Preferences, I have the following settings chosen:
Source Format: P2 AVC-Intra
Target Format: NativeI also have
Source Format: AVCHD
Target Format: Apple ProRes 422There are a few other Source Format/Target Format lines but they’re not AVC related so I didn’t type them out here.
Does this mean that AVCHD footage would have been turned into ProRes but AVC-Intra footage would have been wrapped as an MOV but still technically AVC-Intra?
And in case this helps diagnose (or solve) the problem, I’ve uploaded a very small (6MB) video clip shot with the AG-HPX300 camera and transcoded(?) by FCP as an example, available for download here: https://tinyurl.com/82pncht
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Hi Danny,
Our product Calibrated{Q} AVC-Intra Decode for Windows can help you out – you can download it here:
https://www.calibratedsoftware.com/QAVCIntraDownload.asp
In DEMO MODE, it’ll show product logo watermarks over the video but otherwise it’s fully functional.
Also we have a modified XML file that’s an Adobe CS5.0.3/5.5.0 Perfomance booster for our codecs and you can get that an the above link too (it works with our software in DEMO MODE too).
I download the MOV file from your link and it works fine here.
If you have any questions, you can email us at info [at] calibratedsoftware [dot] com
Cheers,
GregCalibrated Software
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[Danny Bourque] “Does this mean that AVCHD footage would have been turned into ProRes but AVC-Intra footage would have been wrapped as an MOV but still technically AVC-Intra?”
Yes. AVCHD and AVCintra are completely different formats. AVCHD cannot come in native, it must be converted to ProRes. But with FCP 7, AVCIntra can come in native…as you see. Why is a question I ask, as there are no AVCIntra sequence settings, you must use ProRes. Faster Import, for sure, but render time in the end is longer.
But, it looks like your AVCIntra footage came in native, wasn’t converted to ProRes.
As you can see with the attached screen grab.
(GORGEOUS shot by the way. Totally jealous that you were on the field in a Saints game…)
Shane
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Hi, I have a problem that I am not sure can be solved or not. I have several folders of AVC footage from an HMC40 in which I only copied the stream folder onto my harddrive, not the entire file structure. Final Cut and Avid will not import them, but I can play them with VLC media player. Is there any way I can get these into an editing system? MPEG Streamclip does not recognize them either. It is very valuable footage to me. Thank you for your time.
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[Ryan Hartmann] ” Is there any way I can get these into an editing system?”
Adobe CS 5.5 sees them just fine. I did a test…copied over ONLY the Stream folder, and imported those files into PPro CS 5.5. Worked like a charm.
Avid and FCP need the full structure…period.
Shane
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Ok, great thank you very much. I will have to look into getting Premiere then.
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