Importing clips from Panasonic HDC -SD5

[Janet Nabney]

Hello:
I have tried it with IE and get as far as trying a download but then it comes up with ‘download failed…. Error 401, access to site unauthorized’ although I did enter the user name and password that was sent to me along with the link?
Very odd????
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[David Dobson]

You can also use NERO (burning ROM) version 8 – it converts AVCHD to HDV which PP can edit natively. https://www.nero.com/eng/nero8-introduction.html

[Janet Nabney]

Thanks for that. I did receive a CD with the camera that included an editing option which allowed me to convert the avchd files into mpeg3 files.
These will play in Windows Media Player etc, but when I import them into Premiere Pro 2, I lose the sound.
Any suggestions for converting mpeg2 files into another format that will import into Premiere Pro with the sound intact?
Thanks very much for all your suggestions.

[David Dobson]

Mpeg-3? Probably not that, as I believe that skipped that number for video (Mpeg2, layer 3 is audio we call MP3). Anyway. No, I don’t know what your software is doing. I have noticed that PPro doesn’t read the audio track of mpegs sometimes. Don’t know why..probably has to do with how the audio is encoded. You can fiddle with the settings of your software to see if a different audio format work (like PCM as apposed to mp3 or uncompressed) – but I’m just guessing.

In NERO, (using Nero Vision, create Movie) you can import and play AVCHD video and then you can export it to MPEG-2 format and chose 1080i60, blah blah blah. And the resulting .mpeg file can be imported into PPro and after PPro indexes it and conforms the audio, it works great. The first 15 frames are screwed up though – which kind of makes sense, but is still a bit of a pain.