[Bradley Green]

The EX1 files remain at their native 35mbps rate thus taking up a lot less space. The HMC files must be transcoded to Prores. These Proress files are more along the lines of 100+mbps. Until Final Cut can natively edit AVCHD its going to require larger files. I have FCP7 and have been testing out the Prores LT option. It seems to decrease the size by 25%. We are only running at 1280×720 so the extra compression isn’t noticeable.

The issue here is you can’t transcode one heavily compressed format (AVCHD) to another heavily compressed format without serious quality loss. Thus you have to work in Prores until you finish to keep the macro-blocking and compression artifacts to a minimum.

[Bradley Green]

Its a permanent solution- so I’m going to try to get a demo from a dealer.
Thanks for the advice.

If anyone else has any personal experience with these I’d love to here it.

Thanks-

Bradley

[Bradley Green]

It is an encoded hd mpeg2 transport stream ready to be inserted into a 6 mhz slot on the cable system. It would be coming out of a ZEEVEE Pro 250 going to the fiber converter, then across campus, then to another fiber converter, and into a RF combiner at the cable head end.