Sony FS100 MTS Proxy encode error.

[Robb Harriss]

wait, you’re trying to render them as FS100 MTS files?

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[Dan Nethery]

No, they are the mts stream files and I’m trying to create proxies from them so I can work offline on logging content.

Thanks for the quick reply!

[Robb Harriss]

Is that a quicktime supported file? I don’t have any of those files here. I’ve only seen the camera at the dealer.

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[Dan Nethery]

No not directly. You have to transcode it. I use rewrote but it’s very chuggy in QuickTime. The catdv site says that I need to use xuggle to load mts files, and it works… I’m on slow 3G on the road so I can’t get a clip to upload to an amazon or Dropbox.

I hope to find a hotspot and I could upload a clip

[Robb Harriss]

Ok.
Well I have no experience with the FS100 MTS files. But as a editor I want all my files in the same format. Some might consider that a pain up front, but it saves tremendous hassle as one progresses in the project. So first I transcode into my universal format. In my case it’s ProRes. Of course all my own footage comes in as ProRes, but anything from anyone else gets converted first. From there everything is easy. Sounds like you’re doing a double conversion and it’s causing you headaches. I know there’s a lot of software out there that will pull files off of a card, convert it and store and rename it in multiple directories and even convert it to a proxy format and window burn it for you as part of the offloading process. Maybe that’s the route to take.

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[Dan Nethery]

I’m trying to keep my storage space down. I go from 28mbps to 1.5gbpm… I would rather keep all of our content in an original file format for future use, and I don’t want to have duplicated content. Originals and transcode for online…. Avid supports the native mts files as AMA, I would think that if it’s not now, that catdv will do the same at some point.
The other issue I have with transcoding is keeping all of the original metadata, like gps location for search reasons.

Thanks for the input on the workflow though!

[Robb Harriss]

There are advantages to not using your original files for logging, etc. put them in a safe place..I make small photo jpeg proxies for logging and offline editing. The process for going back to originals is quite simple. I carry the proxies back and forth on an external drive. And ats not for one project but dozens. The originals can live where you want . As far as doubling, well yes, but you’re leaving the originals in a safe place. I’m not sure what metadata CatDv picks up from MTS files.. I found some stampedes, but none are from an FS100

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[Bryson Jones]

I’d have to agree, this is not likely going to work in “plain ol’ Quicktime.”

My word to people who choose to shoot AVDHD is that you pay later for the cheaper camera up front.

If I were tasked with setting up this workflow, I’d either go full res as Robb says, and then delete the full res. (A long way around.)

Or, I’d use something like Episode to make the proxy files through a script fired by the Worker Node. If you have a standalone copy of CatDV, that obviously isn’t an option.

I wish Apple and Sony could work something out on this.

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[Robb Harriss]

I’ve been looking at options out there. There are some inexpensive converters that would make proxies. The question would be timecode. MetaData would come from the originals. Then just force CatDV to read the proxies if both are online at the same time.

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[Robb Harriss]

I just pulled in one of my test files. Of course it won’t play because I don’t have xuggle installed on this machine. But it pulled in an awful lot of metadata. I have no idea if gps data can get in there. So if I had one of the converters I’d just make a proxy copy of the original in whatever readable format (I tend to use photo jpeg 720-wide to make them small and light on the laptop. Do your files all start with 00:00 timecode? And do you like having tons of small clips or do you join the files together into larger ones?

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