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Previewing Those Dreaded MTS files
OK maybe AVCHD is the way forward etc but the MTS files I get from my Canon HF11 are so time consuming to preview.
What I need if anyone can recommend:
An EFFICIENT/FAST/QUICK/PRONTO way to preview my clips. I don’t care about preview quality that is not the reason for it.
Example:
I may shoot 50 quick (5 to 180 second) scenes some of which there might be 2 or 3 takes from different angles.
Before I even consider dragging into my sony vegas I would love to quickly thumbnail and watch a crappy preview of the clip, then maybe cut the portion I need. Then it can go to sony vegas.Can anyone offer their KNOWLEDGEABLE biased opinions on software that might offer this? Remember the critical needs! Preview speed, and possible cutting and/or conversion to something Vegas digests quicker. I am sure that doing this process first I could shave 30% off my editing hours.
I’m on Windows XP, I’m an IT pro so I know what can be done and what cannot be done to improve OS/HW there :-). I am not a MAC user. All I need is a quick shot preview, and know “yep thats the shot I want” Not all this crap with waiting, decompressing etc. SURELY there has to be an ideal down and dirty app that is basically a file manager for EM TEE SSSS (MTS) files ??? :-).
Obviosuly I need lossless transfer.
Consider the anaolgy:
A pile of high Q photos on a table spread out, I very quickly browse over them, see the one I want grab it and cut out the bit I need then drop it in my good box. I don’t need to look at it with a magnifying glass. I don’t need an accurate guilotine.Bueller anyone? I’ll buy you a beer 🙂
Cheers for all that you do in this cool forum!!
Alan
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You don’t mention too much about your computer specs which is quite important with Vegas since it is pretty much all cpu and memory driven.
A fast machine for example will preview avchd (in Vegas) at full frame rate running vista 64. A slower machine running xp(32 bit) will be hopeless with avchd.
I’m running vista 64, 8 gig ram, with a Q6600 quad core and I can preview AVCHD from the SR11 at full frame rate without issue (that is of course until I hit a transition). Granted the HF11 runs at a higher bit rate but the point is that the only REAL assist when dealing with avchd is horsepower… the more the better.
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Thanks Rob.
I’m a little low on par for the vegas app. I use a laptop AMD Athlon 64 x 2 and plan to get a dedicated machine next month. (Quad core like you or an I7 .. whatever). This machine is also used for music recording/prodcution with Cakewalk Sonar but not at the same time.My best solution thus far was this:
I installed the K-Lite codec pack, and a file called “quickthumb.dll” as I have 2 cameras one HF20 (not HF 11 as I intially stated) and a Lumix TZ5 that output MOV files. At least now I can preview in explorer the thumbs and clips so I can be selective in my project folder to keep lean on the files and locations. To me this has been the most efficient way to get the clips, quick check and drag into my project then I can delete the crap and clear the cameras.I’ll get my new horses next month !!
Cheers
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Sorry I installed the VISTA Codec pack not K-Lite this works with XP also
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I’ve had my I7 920 running 64bit Win7 for a while now and it’s still no joy editing mts files from my SR11. It looks nice, but the MXF’s from the EX1’s at work are a lot easier to deal with for me. I tried that plugin that lets the GPU handle the mts files, but it was all kinds of buggy. I really wish Sony would build that into Vegas in a way that works.
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