[Dorit Grunberger]

Hi Boris

Would love to chat as well. I tried to create in/out points within Soundbite and thought I could import this new clip back to FCP 7, but I am getting xml files on my desktop that I don’t know what to do with.

Thanks in advance,
Dorit

[Dorit Grunberger]

I think all you have to do is convert the .mts to ProRes in FCP (or other) and then put it on a 23.98 or 29.97 timeline

Thanks in advance,
Dorit

[Dorit Grunberger]

Hi Meredith

You should “Log and Transfer” the files into FCP7 and save the 1st transcode to .mov if possible. Do you have all the metadata or just single .mts files?

[Dorit Grunberger]

Thanks for all your help Shane. Have a lovely weekend.
Dorit

Thanks in advance,
Dorit

[Dorit Grunberger]

Oooops! My bad. I now know to open the tiny drop-down menu in the Log & Transfer AVCHD preferences window and select LT there.

Sorry

Thanks in advance,
Dorit

[Dorit Grunberger]

Hi Shane

The plot thickens. Despite my best attempts at changing the ingest codec in FCP 7, it stays stuck on ProRes. I tried changing the audio/Video settings to either LT or HQ, and it completely ignores me :-(.
I also tried to change the preferences in the Log and Transfer window, hit OK and it just defaults back to ProRes. Does this sound like a corruption in FCP that would require a re-install? I sure hope not. As it stands, I’m getting transcoded files that are about 6x heftier than their AVCHD parents and I’d love to slim them down. Any ideas? Am I missing something?

Thanks in advance,
Dorit

[Dorit Grunberger]

Why?

Thanks in advance,
Dorit

[Dorit Grunberger]

Thanks for your patience. I’m fast gaining a better understanding of all of this stuff.

So, looked up on Apple’s site the data rates for all their ProRes codecs. ProRes LT is 82 Mbps and ProRes Proxy is 36 Mbps.
Maximum data rate on the Panasonic AF100 is 24Mbps in PH mode (average 21Mbps).
If I understood your recommendation I could use the Proxy (I don’t know anything about it) to decrease file sizes and still get the same quality as LT?

Thanks in advance,
Dorit

[Dorit Grunberger]

Thanks Shane

I have Adobe Premiere and am seriously thinking of switching, or adding it to my FCP 7 workflow.
Do you think ProRes LT will be good enough to export out my final project or are you suggesting I edit with it and take my fine cut out in ProRes or ProRes HQ? In other words, will ProRes LT have all the info from the AF100 I could get from a regular ProRes transcode?
Yeah, I understand about the FCP-H.264 incompatability, I was just hopeful the ClipWrap found a way to make it palatable for FCP….
I still don’t understand why the AVCHD to ProRes transcode gets so inflated with no discernible increase in quality over the smaller XDCAM files. I guess, like you said, two different formats.

Thanks in advance,
Dorit

[Dorit Grunberger]

Regarding this issue, how much bigger than the .mts files are the ClipWrap files and is it possible to edit ClipWrap .mov files in FCP 7 without transcoding to ProRes? I ask this because the transcoding inflates the files almost 10 fold!! Is there any way around it?
A friend who owns a PMW-EX3 gets great ingested XDCAM footage at a fraction of the size…

Thanks in advance,
Dorit