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Sony FS100 MTS Proxy encode error.
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Hey Dan,
We use the VG10 (the poor man’s FS100) and had the same trouble. I’m assuming that the FS100 also shoots AVCHD and generates MTS files just like the VG10. CatDV cannot play the files back because Quicktime (the playback engine) can’t play them back. We tried Xuggle and in our environment at least it was awful and did not play back acceptably.
But we did find a work around… we use Woker Node to scan our footage directories for .MTS files. Worker Node then sends a command (command line input) to a program Called ClipWrap (free). ClipWrap re-wraps (not transcodes) the .MTS into ProRes files (very fast). The ProRes files are then placed in the preview path relative to the .MTS file’s original location. So, when you go to a catalog and try to play a particular .MTS file CatDV “sees” the ProRes preview (or proxy) and plays that instead. What is also awesome is that when we drag and drop .MTS clips from CatDV to Premiere it pulls the original .MTS files (which is what we want to use in Premiere) and not the ProRes “previews”.
As an aside, VLC, the free Media player DOES play MTS files and I wish CatDV could just have that as an option for a playback engine (like Xuggle) and life would be a lot easier for us.
Hope this helps.
Jeff Schaap
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ClipWrap. That’s what I was trying to remember yesterday! And it does work with MTS? Hmmm, and it’s cheap too.
And I agree about VLC. It’s my goto for all kinds of weird formats that pass by me.
Non-linear: all the time and nothing but.
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Jeff, that’s an awesome tip. I never knew Clipwrap had a CLI interface.
Love that.
bryson
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I just tried it here. The MOV files came right in as movies, and it made the thumbnails. Going to see if it will make my photo jpeg window burn proxies from that.
Non-linear: all the time and nothing but.
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No joy. The proxies wouldn’t build from CatDV. Have to use the other route. Easy enough.
Non-linear: all the time and nothing but.
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Yeah, we were glad to find out it was command-line addressable too. I had said earlier that ClipWrap was free but I was wrong on that- it is about $50. Far cheaper than other encoding solutions anyhow.
The other thing I did not mention is that we use another watch action to find the ProRes renders from ClipWrap and crush them down to H.264 MP4’s Then it throws out the ProRes previews. This take a ProRes file from 750 MB down to one that is about 40 MB. Saves us a lot of space. The ProRes previews are available pretty quickly and can be logged / reviewed while Worker Node crunches them down to H.264.
Jeff
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Does clips rap maintain the full metadata structor?
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Just read your post again… This is great! We are using pro on a single machine, but just bought workgroup this week and plan to start setting it up next week.
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FYI it now takes like 5 minutes to install and be up and running with workgroup. Do it- it changes everything for the better, especially with everyone has the same data field and labels.
Non-linear: all the time and nothing but.
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Yes, ClipWrap will rewrap (and even transcode) .MTS files from the VG10 (and FS100 I assume) with a GUI or via command line. I had to talk to the makers of the software to get the correct syntax as their documentation wasn’t correct.
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