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Inner Circle
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The trouble came for me with Upshift not working as I had planned. I had stupidly assumed that upshift worked just like Gearshift, but I was mistaken. I was looking for Easy, and didn't find it.
An interesting sidenote is that Upshift in demo mode only generates 10sec clips. At that point I was done with the whole business. It is not the same as Gearshift at all. |
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Barry Wan Kenobi
Join Date: Jul 2003
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The file glitch is your software, not the footage. The AVCHD files stitch together perfectly and flawlessly.
EDIUS, EDIUS Neo, and Premiere Pro CS4 4.1 handle AVCHD natively, easily. Speed of playback depends on your computer, but my dual-core laptop can handle 720/60p full-screen in realtime, and 1080/24p looks like it's close to real time. The files are split up at 4GB intervals because the file format of the SDHC card is FAT32, which supports a maximum file size of 4GB. There are no glitches or missing frames between files. If you're experiencing that, it's a bug in your software, as the original footage is perfectly good. |
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Unfortunately I'm not sure I'd abandon my NLE to suit the AVCHD workflow.
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You should not need to abandon your NLE. I wouldn't do that. I run Premiere Pro CS3, and just use the Main Concept transcoder, drop it on my time line and go to town, no rendering required. My results really are quite good using this "system".
I am sure that whatever NLE you are using (on a PC at least--not personally familiar with Mac's) you could adopt an equally simple approach. FWIW, I think you are abandoning it too soon. Give it a chance--how long have you had it? It's a new workflow process that many have made work for weddings, etc to great effect. I don't do weddings at this point (just have not had the opportunity) but I do a lot of sports, and now concerts and stage and can positively state that the HMC is my preferred cam for these applications. |
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Thanks for the encouragement Steve...
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Actually I was teaching a new comer how to edit with Edius and he just bought 2 new shinny HMC-150s as I plan to do soon. He had just shot 2 first communions and on both videos wherever the 4 gig limit happend there was a sizable glitch with Edius 5.1. Most just had a glitch but the first o ne we came across actually threw the audio out of sync. Weird. As long as I knew it was happening I could deal with it but the first clip going out of sync drove me crazy for a while.
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BTW I convert files to Canopus HQ with Edius but what do you convert to with Premiere 4.1?
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My 4GB files also stitch together perfectly every time after I figured it out. As a simple test for your system, if the HMC-150 files will not play back smoothly every time with no glitching using VLC media player, you have a system speed problem. That is not saying that the NLE won't edit the AVCHD, but if you can't even play back the footage smoothly, you really need to find out what is going on with your system and/or upgrade it.
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So, you experience none of the glitches others have reported in the newest CS4? Quote:
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Just tried the latest PPro and it's choppy at best on my laptop which plays Canopus HQ files in RT in Edius just fine. I'm sticking to Edius and transcoding. On my PC it was better, but it did the same thing I noted by a poster at another forum. Glitches in output.
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Steve, thanks for this post. I own two Sony V1U's but am fascinated with the HMC150 and have wondered how well footage would intercut between one and the Sony cams. What is your experience? I assume you use both the Z5 and 150 for the wedding ceremonies and then intercut for the edited version? |
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