[Josh Bamber]

I just don’t understand what the problem is with AVCHD footage.. Premiere cs6 tries to set sequence settings as Arri Cinema and when i change it it doesn’t like it and i get stuttery playback with yellow bar ect… I try importing the files into cs5 and it makes the sequence upper field first dominance (the footage is 100% none as it is progressive). I then use clipwrap to wrap the footage into h264 for final cut pro 7 and it imports the footage as upper field first (and it does the same thing with h264 dlsr footage)…. if i change the sequence settings back to none im sure it doesn’t look right especially as final cut says that the footage is upper field first even before i make a sequence.

It seems the only way to edit this footage properly is to transcode it into pro res using compressor which is when final cut finally recognizes it as a progressive file.

Does anybody know any reasoning for this or if i am doing something wrong. Or is anybody having the same problem not just with avchd but dslr footage and the upper field issue too.

Cheers Josh

[Josh Bamber]

Hey everyone,

Thanks ever so much for the replies they were really really helpful. I will be using these forums a lot now i know of the existance…. I would love to get my hands on one on the portable recorders but i have just spent all of my money on the camera so that is out of the question at the moment. I did actually get hold of one of the pro mics we would be using and connect it up through the midi box.. A normal karaoke styke mic worked but the other mic had no signal going in what so ever any ideas???

I would love to use soundtrack as the recording software but unfortunately i have an imac not a macbook. I was thinking of using audacity for the PC laptop could this work?

Thanks again Josh