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Working with AVCHD
Hi there,
I’ve just switched from FCP to Premiere (loving every bit of it so far), I’ve just shot a film on a Sony FS100 which uses the AVCHD codec. I’ve copied the SD cards ‘private’ directory to my hard drive.
Premiere can recognise the files in the ‘private’ directory, but I was wondering if I should edit straight from this directory, or if I should use Adobe Prelude to capture them and turn them into movies – and if so should I transcode them (not quite sure what that means).
Thanks very much!
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3 Replies
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Put a copy of the media on your raid or AV drive(s).
From within APP open “Media Browser” drag clips into project.
Edit.No need to transcode.
Chris Tompkins
Video Atlanta LLC -
I’m working on a big project with tons of AVCHD and didn’t know that from the beginning. It’s too late to re-import at this point. But if I were to do it again I would name the root folders of all the media like “Ruth Cam 1”, “Ruth Cam 2” before importing using the media browser. The folder name is essentially the file name in this work flow.
Robert Brown
Editor/VFX/Colorist – FCP, Smoke, Quantel Pablo, After Effects, 3DS MAX, Premiere Prohttps://vimeo.com/user3987510/videos
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thanks for the advice, Robert. When you say ‘root’ folder do you mean the “private” file that contains the .MTS files? Or do you mean something ‘deeper’ in the hierarchy?
thanks a lot
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