Re Wrap MTS to mov for premiere pro 6.0.3 Windows 8

[Angelo Lorenzo]

After an initial skim, the issue seems to be with audio support.

AC-3 probably isn’t supported by Quicktime without additional codec purchases.

Try converting audio to PCM (WAV, basically) with FFMPEG while re-wrapping. Increase in file size shouldn’t kill you.

AVC is h.264. Project manager won’t trim it without conversion to a different format. Pure rewrapping is kind of moot at this point.

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[Jon Carlson]

Thank you for the quick response, “additional codec purchases” if I can buy an additional codec to solve the issue I would in a second, any idea on which codec to purchase to solve this issue?

Jon Carlson

[Angelo Lorenzo]

What is your end goal? In my previous post I mentioned that rewrapping to MOV wasn’t needed because even if you converted audio (which I suggest you convert to WAV anyways), the fact that the video is h.264 precludes that you can’t trim your project anyways.

I would weigh out if converting your project to a codec that can be trimmed is worth the disk space increase in comparison to a non-trimmed project.

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[Jon Carlson]

That clears it up, Thank you your help.

[Simon Faris]

Hi did you try saving your PP file then open it in AE and export it there, or use Media Encoder to do it from that PP file?
I use MTS all the time and export to .mov files all the time. My rig is similar as your except my vid card is Nvidia Q4000, which handles the job much better then a game card with more ram. However you should not have a problem. UNLESS there is a corrupt file in your sequence……

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[Jon Carlson]

Hi Simon,

Thank you for your response, I’m shooting with three Canon and 50 cameras and from what I understand because they shoot in AVCHD I cannot use the trim project mode in premiere Pro cs6.

I’m producing commercials for a small town for several yearly events to be used on a yearly basis, When each event comes around I’ll be changing very little other than the date, I was hoping to maintain the source footage quality.

The issue I’m having is really one of storage, with the three cameras I’m gathering close to 150 GB per shoot, when the final product is edited down to about two minutes, if the trim function would work I could reduce the project archive size down to 2 GB.

The best I can come up with is once a project is completed is to encode with an MOV rapper using MPEG-4 codec at 50 MB per second.

May I ask what codec you’re using to encode your mts files to MOV?

Thank you
Jon Carlson
Jccmedia.com

[Simon Faris]

Hi Jon,

I see you too use 3 Canons. Not sure if the 50 was supposed to be a 5d? Which if so, I would think the files would then be jpg2000. Also when shooting use 30P unless you want film look of 24p..Then select that. 60 is not going to be used unless you want to play with time remapp. Which AE will use 30 just fine. Or Interpolate the footage in the Comp settings in AE. AE and PP are really a tandem software. I do nothing in PP except for final scene(s) layout. Export using Media Encoder to the format it will be played back on. There is NO one size fits all. You should export for the player….

You have a small challenge with your source footage for storage. Once you add a codec the artifacts are there. So if you take that raw footage and re-wrap it into a .mov file. Or use a 264 codec. It is there forever. Not that big of a deal pending on what you want to do with it down the road. IE: track something on it to add in After Effects. However Mocha is a powerful tool and pretty forgiving if you have a spot to track to that has good texture to it. (IE: AL’s Hardware banner on the old footage)
That being stated. One way to take that footage (as I do) is chop away the junk and save it as an uncompressed AVI via A.E this way, I have as you stated, a mpeg with out any other codecs to it.
The files are big, however storage is cheap. Where you can buy 2-3Tb nowadays for 80.00 US delivered. As you may be aware you can simply plug the drive in as you need it for whatever reason. You do not have to have that drive plugged in 24/7 creating heat in W.S or you can opt for an EXT storage (3.0 usb or Sata3) and plug in as needed for retrieval.
(IE: Al’s Hardware drive)
Label the chopped down usable stuff in that drive and add that to the cost overhead for a client. 3TB is a feature movie with effects. BTW. So for your application you could simply add the 80.00 overhead for those drives. Keeping your uncompressed AVI’s available for future edits.
I hope this LONG explanation was helpful, and on point?
Regards
SF

S.Faris
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