[Eric Monroe]

i thought photoshop had some sort of tool for importing video into it.

ANYONE?

[Eric Monroe]

Here is a video of how I do my multicam workflow.

let me know if you have any questions, but this will definitely fix ya up to hear all your audio sources.

link:

https://vimeo.com/11312471

[Eric Monroe]

Awesome …..thanks a bunch for the help….will give that a try and let ya know what happens.

[Eric Monroe]

my machine has 8 gigs of ram….is that truly not enuf?

as far as importing…..so what you are saying is to import the whole folder from the camera to the drive that i use to hold footage….and then in ppro…import that same folder?

Checked out your site….nice work man.

https://www.shadowstudiosllc.com there is my site.

[Eric Monroe]

does the folder from the camera have other files that are important to the footage?

[Eric Monroe]

or in ppro’s title tool, go over to the sidebar, click the square drawing tool. and draw a black box over the veiwable area on the titlers screen and then text over top of it.

or cut the video on the timeline out completely for the duration of your title, since you dont wanna see the video during that time.

hope this helps

[Eric Monroe]

the other way is to play your footage live through the camera’s output into a capture card using whatever compression format you like best. The camera will “playback” those “spanned files” as one.

Down side is that you take a step backward by having to wait on live capture again, but if it is AVCHD you have to wait on re-encoding it anyways because none of the NLE’s will handle it very good anyhow….so the time is approx the same….and by live capturing it…you end up with better files than re-encoding the AVCHD….not to mention it solves your desire to have one file out of the many.

If you have access to Final Cut Pro, the “Log and Transfer” function in FCP recognizes tapeless cameras files as “one large file” and will convert them to prores or Apple Intermediate codec” upon ingest. Just one other solution.

CS5 touts some impressive abilities with native AVCHD, DSLR and RED footage, so we shall see.

Hope that helps ya. have a great night

[Eric Monroe]

if you are gonna spend money on newer drives, (i had the same prob as you, old drives that were slow) look at gettin a G-technology G-Raid. $204 at B&H photo.com It is a 1TB Raid-0 enclosure. Run it into an e-sata card and you are set.

I bought one and I love it. Just my humble opinion though.

[Eric Monroe]

yea having someone drop off AVCHD files sucks, cuz you are forced to convert.

but what i was saying about using the camera and a capture device, goin from the camera out through an hdmi cable, completely bypasses the AVCHD codec. you use your camera as a playback device, and it bypasses the compression to AVCHD allowing you to have an origianl full quality signal from the camera goin to your capture device, which can then go to an edit friendly format like pro-res, motion jpeg, or uncmprsd HD (if you have the drives to manage the throughput)

[Eric Monroe]

problem is even some of the low end professional cameras like panasonics hmc-150 is an AVCHD camera. There is however a halfway decent solution for us AVCHD guys….and that is to buy an I/O like the BMD decklink and then bypass the cameras AVCHD compression altogether…by capturing live through HDMI. Then you encode it to whatever you prefer, prores, uncommpressed etc. and edit away. (did that sound like a commercial for BMD? LOL HEHEHE :o)