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Need workflow for offloading AVCHD material.
I’m new to PP CS6, (from FCP7). I have a Canon HF G10 camcorder. In FCP7, I was able to get previews of the clips via Log and Transfer before downloading the clips, which would then transfer them from the camera to my scratch disk. I don’t see any such workflow in PP CS6, as the clips can be viewed, but do not get transferred to the desired drive.
So the only recommendation I’m seeing says to drag the entire camcorder internal drive and offload it. Two big problems with this method that I’d love your thoughts on.
1. There’s no quick way to eliminate bad clips short of dragging them to the drive then deleting them off.
2. My bigger problem is one of organization. Now that I’ve successfully offloaded some clips onto the hard drive, I’d rather not wipe the camcorder’s internal drive. So when I create more clips, the first batch gets duplicated.
Is there something I’m missing here?
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Brute,
Here’s my workflow for AVCHD. Copy the entire contents of the card onto your media drive. You can create folders for different cards but the entire card needs to be copied into the folder. Inside Premiere use the Media Browser. Navigate to the clips and the media browser will connect the spanned clips and will show you thumbnails of all your clips. Select the clips you want and import.
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Thanks. That’s pretty much what I’ve done, and it’s worked. But the problem is leaving the original clips on the card, then shooting more video. Is there any way to avoid re-transferring the original clips the second time around?
It would logarithmically eat up my hard drive space unless I delete the original files. It seems crazy.
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You could also use Adobe Prelude. It’s sort of a Log & Transfer on steroids. You can mark sections, clips, import, transcode all from within Prelude. It’s taken me some time to adjust to it, but it works nicely and plays really well with Premiere (all your notes, markers, metadata transfers over to PPro).
Ryan Holmes
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Brute,
Once I copy the contents of the card to my media drive I then make a backup of the card onto another drive. Then I erase the card and start fresh.
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I have just started using Prelude.
It is useful but seems limited with AVCHD clips.
I can INGEST AVCHD files but I cannot log them (make markers).
Maybe this is a limitation of the AVCHD format.
I have no problem logging H.264 files.The useful thing about using Prelude to INGEST AVCHD files is I can then
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It sounds like Adobe Prelude may be my answer provided the learning curve isn’t too steep. Is there a quick tutorial somewhere on ingesting AVCHD?
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