Bernard Newnham
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AVCHD is very similar to H264, so you could probably supply on that without problems.
I’m fascinated – why would anyone want to go to AVCHD? It’s an aquisition format, and a particularly irritating one. Please can you let us know his reason?
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Well, wash my mouth out with soap and water then condemn me to the seven leagues of hell but – build a Hackintosh. Then you can have whatever you want at a reasonable price (ducks back into nuclear air-raid shelter).
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I just tried out the Toonit plugin. It took 3 minutes to render a 1 second clip on my reasonably fast machine. Looks pretty good, but as it costs $399 I probably won’t be buying it. The Photoshop idea seems the sensible way to go.
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Getting it working can be a bit of a pain, but once sorted it’s a joy. You go through the show as live and cut where you wish. Then you can go through again and add, move or remove the cuts you made the first time till you’re happy. You can then use the multiclip sequence with other bits and pieces like supers and graphics till it’s complete.
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I only ever seem to make one contribution to this forum. People seem to keep asking the same question all the time and I keep doing my bit – the answer is Clipwrap, though I too wonder why FCP can’t cope with a file type that is now one of the major standards.
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Been there, done that, and had exactly the same problem. The answer is Clipwrap. Works a treat
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Clipwrap is the simple answer. Yes, you have to buy it, but then you’ll have it for all the other times you’ll need it.
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£100 is pushing your luck a bit, think £600-800. I have a Canon Legria which produces amazing pictures for the price and size of the camera. The current version is the HF S200.
Don’t forget that you need good sound too, and the Canon has an external mic socket. It records on SDHC cards – probably the future medium for everything below the feature film level. The format is AVCHD – a bit of a pain – but I get it in to FCP using Clipwrap.
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Every time I try Log and Transfer with AVCHD Final Cut crashes – just disappears. I use Clipwrap, which does the job of reformatting very well.
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One of my cameras records AVCHD files as MTS. I use Clipwrap to convert the files to Apple Intermediate Codec, though I could use ProRes or several others. It works quickly and does a good job.
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