[Victor Martinez]

Sorry me again, forgot to answer your question. You should shoot in 60i when you normal movements, nothing to fast. For sports events, cars, and fast moving objects use 60p.

[Victor Martinez]

This depends on the “type” of HD your shooting in ie: resolution. 60i is reserved for 1080 HD. Full hd is 1080p at 30 frames per second, semi-full hd is 1080i at 60 frames per second. The “i” means that frames are interlaced into each other, meaning that in 60i is actually 30 interlaced frames. So if you shoot in 60i you should either use 1080i60 or transcode to 1080p30. In normal AVCHD video there is no 1080p60. Another possibility is that you shoot in 720p and this is usually either in 60p, 24p, or 30p, but hardly ever “i”.

mp4 is MPEG4 a standard in AVCHD camcorders, these camcorders shot video and store them in AVC/h.264 video also known as MPEG4 Part-10 and store audio in ACC also known as MPEG4-Audio. These standards put together are what make AVCHD. They work in tandem to give great video quality and resolution at very low data rates witch gives you small file sizes

If this format gives you trouble with editing, you have a few options:

a. Convert them to an edditing codec (like AIC, DVCPRO HD, HDV, etc.) using a program like MPEG Streamclip or Episode (both work on mac and pc) (least expensive, but slow to convert, fast to edit and encode though)

b. Get an editing program that accepts AVCHD, usauly this is best but it requires a systems powerful enough to handle the decompression process.

c. Capture the video using third-party capture cards. (expensive)

I hope that this rambling helps you. PS. Use Final Cut Pro, Sony Vegas or Adobe Premier.

[Victor Martinez]

I have a digital camcorder which shoots using the ambarella AVC encoder in the mov container. It’s actually a reversion of the h.264 codec, also known as AVC. It’s not that different from normal h.264 video. What I do is using MPEG Streamclip I put all the videos in a batch list and export them to either the Apple intermediate codec at 720p or 1080p (depending on how I shot it) or using DVCPRO HD at 720p 24, 30 or 60 or 1080i 50/60. I sparsely ever use Prores. Since I noticed your video is in 720p HD @ ~60, I’d use these settings:

Once put in the batch list by going to List > Batch List or hitting command + B, then just drag and drop your footage and you’ll be asked in what container do you want your video to be in, choose Export to Quicktime, click OK. Then set the output location (I suggest in a different location from your footage; of course :-D), click Ok and use these settings:

[V] = check the box
[ ] = don’t check it

If you want to edit in 24p or 24 frames per second use option b.

a.
Compression: Apple DVCPRO HD 720p60
Quality: 100%
Sound: Uncompressed; Stereo; 48 kHZ
Frame Size: 1280 x 720 (HDTV 720p)
Frame Rate: 59.98
[ ] Frame Blending
[V] Better Downscaling

[V] Deinterlace Video

All the rest remains the same.

b.

Compression: Apple DVCPRO HD 720p60
Quality: 100%
Sound: Uncompressed; Stereo; 48 kHZ
Frame Size: 1280 x 720 (HDTV 720p)
Frame Rate: 23.98
[V] Frame Blending
[V] Better Downscaling

[V] Deinterlace Video

All the rest remains the same.

After you’ve set this click To Batch and then if you want it to process 2 or more videos at a time click the Simultaneos Tasks list and click on how many tasks you want. Then click go.

Works for me. Obviously you cant confrom it to use any codec you want and it will still work.

Good luck and happy editing

P.S here is a link to MPEG Streamclip, Download MPEG Streamclip from their website