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FUCK AVCHD

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MatRich
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Hi I had to rent a camera for a gig that I did and now Im stuck with sony's stupid consumer avchd. I have .mts files that I need to convert to prores 422, its complicated as fuck, so how do I do this for free and without having a watermark on my clip.
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Sklar
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does mpeg streamclip not do .mts?
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MatRich
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nope and there are no plugins for it.
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Sklar
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balls
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eheath
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Premier reads .mts natively, you should be able to log and transfer with FCP?
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iLLbiLLy
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this. I have a pany that films to AVCHD and log and transfer works fine. If you have premiere or Vegas both will open them up; you could clip your shots and then just render it out to one file. Vegas defiantly doesn't have the prores codec but premiere might
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@ScubaSteve
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log and transfer through fcp.  works great for me when using sony avchd. converts right to prores 422

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MatRich
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I dont have access to the camera anymore but i will try and convert it somehow through after effects
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eheath
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If you have the original video files you should be able to add to log and transfer.

Otherwise you have to do each clip one at a time in premier or all as one long clip.
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MatRich
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Its actualy one long 45 minute clip that it seperated into 5 mts files.
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eheath
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Huh well you should be able to figure it out with premier. if you down have it download the 30 day trial.
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MatRich
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Cant i use after effects
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eheath
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I don't know? premier would be way easier i think
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iLLbiLLy
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you could i guess but AE is not built for that purpose. I can't think of any reason it wouldn't work... They both use the adobe media encoder to export so i suppose it would take the same time. Forgot to mention only CS5 will open avcHD.
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blatt
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feels bad man
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KellyK
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Actually, I believe CS4 works fine with .mts. And does AE CS5 finally use adobe media encoder? I still haven't upgraded ugh.
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J-Sway
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i have the same problem with my camera its gay
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ripper_shredder
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*cough get a pc cough* haha windows natively plays avchd
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eheath
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uh adobe premier plays avchd, idiot.
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MatRich
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fuck it, adobe after effects is taking way too long to render and its fucking up. Im downloading aunsoft and including it in my budget
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Lé.Skiing
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I'm not telling you to download a pirated copy of a program... that being said.
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MatRich
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That was my initial plan but those programs i need are not popular enough
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