Mac, Final Cut Pro 6.0.6, and AVCHD (Sony)

[odin24]

Does anybody have experience with Mac, Final Cut Pro 6.0.6, and AVCHD (Sony)?

I'm trying to help a friend with the issue, but he is unable to tranfer the MTS files over from his Sony SDR-SR12E. FCP says it is not supported, however FCP claims to now supports AVCHD.

Thanks in advance.

[setarip_old]

Hi!

You'd probably fare better by posting this question in the sub-forum here that includes MAC-related postings.

Additionally, it's not clear (to me) as to what your question is...

[deank]

Few pages I came across mention:

Final Cut Pro includes support for AVCHD Full HD recorded by camcorders such as the Panasonic HDC-SD3 and HDC-SD5 camcorders.

(no Sony mentioned?!)

I guess there are a lot of more experienced users with FCP which can help if around.

Also, tell your friend to use "Log and Transfer window" to import AVCHD - he will know what to do.

Dean

[kenguru2005]

Few pages I came across mention:

Final Cut Pro includes support for AVCHD Full HD recorded by camcorders such as the Panasonic HDC-SD3 and HDC-SD5 camcorders.

(no Sony mentioned?!)

I guess there are a lot of more experienced users with FCP which can help if around.

Also, tell your friend to use "Log and Transfer window" to import AVCHD - he will know what to do.


Dean

As Dean says: log and transfer window has to be used. But be aware: the footage will be transcoded to an intermediate codec (ProRes). Nativ AVCHD editing will be supported with mac os x 10.6 (snow leopard) and fcs3. Since there only HDV (mpeg2) can be edited natively in fcp.

Greetings

[odin24]

Few pages I came across mention:

Final Cut Pro includes support for AVCHD Full HD recorded by camcorders such as the Panasonic HDC-SD3 and HDC-SD5 camcorders.

(no Sony mentioned?!)

I guess there are a lot of more experienced users with FCP which can help if around.

Also, tell your friend to use "Log and Transfer window" to import AVCHD - he will know what to do.

Dean

He does use the Log Transfer Window, no dice. I too was reading the release notes... I did find it strange that there was not mention of Sony. He always gets "Format Not Supported" when using the Log Transfer Window, he cannot even get it to transcode to FCP's intermediate codec.

Thanks for the replies.

[Blue_MiSfit]

Sounds like a specific issue with FCP 6.0.6 and the particular model of AVCHD camcorder.

What type of transport does this camera use? If it's HDD or solid state, you should be able to copy over the MTS files manually, and at least get them into FCP via remuxing or perhaps transcoding to ProRes manually.

BTW, don't be upset that FCP transcodes AVCHD to ProRes. The latter is a really good codec, and is very fast for editing on macs!

Just make sure when your friend finishes his project, he doesn't use apple's shitty H.264 codec to make an AVCHD disc (or whatever). MAKE HIM USE x264!!! :)

~MiSfit

[benwaggoner]

By the way, Final Cut 7 just came out, and the incldued version of Compressor has explicit Blu-ray encoding and (very basic) authoring and burning now.

I was able to burn a DVD-R that played fine in my PS3 the first time

[kenguru2005]

Not all the camera HD videos can be imported to Final Cut pro, most of Cannon, Sony, JVC, Nikon, Sharp camcorders create MPEG-2, AVI, M2TS, MOD, TOD, etc video format. But if you can convert video to QuickTime MOV, DV, MPEG-4, H.264, 3GP videos, that means you could do further editing in Final Cut Pro.
Try to use AVCHD converter.

******* those ads.

If transcoding is needed then use mpeg streamclip ... that is free. One of the best tools under mac os x.

[jefrey]

You have to use log & transfer window in fcp, if you work with panasonic /P2 Cards or Sony Avc files....or just reencode the m2t/s files wir mpeg streamclip to Apple Prores 4:2:2.