Importing AVCHD Footage w/o copying to Events

[Jeremy Garchow]

You would have to transcode/rewrap before you open FCPX.

You can use ClipWrap for this.

FCPX cannot read the AVCHD files natively, everything must be in .mov format.

[Jeff Kirkland]

FCPX has to rewrap the AVCHD footage in order to play it so it has to make a copy somewhere and that somewhere is always going to be the Events folder.

Otherwise you can use something like ClipWrap to create the rewrapped files outside of FCPX.

Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer | Southern Creative Media | Melbourne Australia
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[John Davidson]

What I do is make an event called ‘Import’ and then import like normal. After that, we copy the media we’ve transcoded from the ‘optimized’ media folder and drag it through finder to wherever we keep our referenced media at. It ain’t perfect, but it works.

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.

[Ron Dawson]

That makes sense. Thanks!

Ron Dawson
Executive Producer/President
Dare Dreamer Media

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[Richard Jacana]

Clipwrap seem the best suggestion but don’t forget that it does not get all the meta data from the avchd clip – I believe stuff like camera ID and other stuff is lost at least with my Panny camera.