Problem with avchd files and lots of affects

[Kevin Camp]

yep, avchd can consume a bit of power to decode.

quicktime lossless animation and photo-jpeg decode pretty quickly and can maintain quality. apple’s prores or avid’s dnxhd wouldn’t be to bad either.

Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

[Farooq Darwish]

oh thank you very much and how can i get the software to convert?

[Kevin Camp]

adobe’s media encoder should do it, but you could use ae too.

Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

[Farooq Darwish]

Yes iam using it with After Effects

[Farooq Darwish]

is it in after effect some where how to get it?

[Ben G unguren]

IF you want to use AE, justs import the AVCHD file, drag it over the “new composition” icon at the bottom of the project window. This makes a project with the exact size, frame rate, and duration of your footage.

Then render that new composition, and choose Lossless as the output module (be sure to include audio if you have any), or choose any other codec — the ones Kevin suggested would work fine. When maintaining 100% image fidelity isn’t necessary, I’ll often use Photo-Jpeg and set the quality to 98% — this is almost (almost!) lossless, and saves a bunch of space on the hard drives.

Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
http://www.mostlydocumentary.com

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[Farooq Darwish]

ok correct if i am wrong. first put the footage render to lossless and then get he video and edit it in after effect, right?

[Ben G unguren]

Yes. You want to pre-render everything, without making any adjustments.

For my projects I have an ASSETS folder where I put all source files. In that folder, I will call one folder “ORIGINAL_FOOTAGE” and a second one “TRANSCODE_FOOTAGE” which has all the pre-renders. Usually I save an AE project in the ORIGINAL_FOOTAGE folder, which was used exclusively for pre-rendering all the footage (if I used AE for that process, at any rate. I tend to use AME or Compressor, but AE works as well).

Then I open a new AE project and drag in all the TRANSCODE_FOOTAGE items (which I just rendered) and I’m on my way!

Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
http://www.mostlydocumentary.com

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[Farooq Darwish]

yu guys are the best i got my answer

thanks

[Farooq Darwish]

hi
quick question
when convet the avchd, i just go to after effects and convert it it mov.format is that mean “quicktime animaiton” if yes what other codec should i choose and Not then can you send me a link that i can download quicktime converter.

thank you