AF100 and MB Grinder

I'll bite. Assuming your referring to AVCHD footage from AF-100.
Sounds like a good solution if you just want to convert to ProRes without using Final Cut. Its probably faster than Log and transfer. Only downside is recapturing the footage with batch capture wouldn't work if you don't use final cut Log and Transfer since no link to the media would exists. That feature alone is a pretty good one.

Red Giant says.....
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Reasons To Buy[/h]
  • Standalone solution converts video without slowing your video-editing application
  • Muliprocessor support yields rapid conversion of multiple files
  • Transcode, add timecode and create proxies in a single pass
  • Faster and easier than converting within Final Cut Pro
  • Takes the tedium out of working with DSLR/HDSLR video
 
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Erik Naso said:
I'll bite. Assuming your referring to AVCHD footage from AF-100.
Sounds like a good solution if you just want to convert to ProRes without using Final Cut. Its probably faster than Log and transfer. Only downside is recapturing the footage with batch capture wouldn't work if you don't use final cut Log and Transfer since no link to the media would exists. That feature alone is a pretty good one.

Red Giant says.....
[h=2]
Reasons To Buy[/h]
  • Standalone solution converts video without slowing your video-editing application
  • Muliprocessor support yields rapid conversion of multiple files
  • Transcode, add timecode and create proxies in a single pass
  • Faster and easier than converting within Final Cut Pro
  • Takes the tedium out of working with DSLR/HDSLR video
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E,

Gotta use good bait to catch the biggest fish! Lol
It does seem a bit redundant when you need to relink.
I love the idea of quick, low res proxies for rendering but most importantly to ship off material to producers to log,
write and timecode etc... I happened across the entire MB Suite (long story) so I'll let you know how it works out.

Be well

J
 
Johnf said:
E,

Gotta use good bait to catch the biggest fish! Lol
It does seem a bit redundant when you need to relink.
I love the idea of quick, low res proxies for rendering but most importantly to ship off material to producers to log,
write and timecode etc... I happened across the entire MB Suite (long story) so I'll let you know how it works out.

Be well

J
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I have the suite and never tried it.
Aguia makes a good point about PP CS5. I recenly had to do a long timecode burn and used Premiere Pro CS5 on my laptop. Used the backup from the SD card on a drive and never had to transcode just render out and export to media encoder for h.264. Worked great. I need to learn PP its going to be my next full time replacement for FCP 7.

Go to it proxy boy!!!
 
Erik Naso said:
I have the suite and never tried it.
Aguia makes a good point about PP CS5. I recenly had to do a long timecode burn and used Premiere Pro CS5 on my laptop. Used the backup from the SD card on a drive and never had to transcode just render out and export to media encoder for h.264. Worked great. I need to learn PP its going to be my next full time replacement for FCP 7.

Go to it proxy boy!!!
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I found the switch from FCP relatively painless, the user interface is not that different, lots more customizeable features in FCP ( although I find AVID MC has even more than FCP), the lack of pain was probably most due to not owning my own FCP system/hardware. The one thing I caution everyone about is trying to export FCP projects to CS5, that was bloody awful. My main motive for switching was a big project that was all going to be all AVCHD, I think the time it saved in transcoding was definitely worth the price of Creative Suite.
 
aguia said:
I found the switch from FCP relatively painless, the user interface is not that different, lots more customizeable features in FCP ( although I find AVID MC has even more than FCP), the lack of pain was probably most due to not owning my own FCP system/hardware. The one thing I caution everyone about is trying to export FCP projects to CS5, that was bloody awful. My main motive for switching was a big project that was all going to be all AVCHD, I think the time it saved in transcoding was definitely worth the price of Creative Suite.
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I learned how to edit non-linear on a Avid MC 15 years ago. Then moved to a new station and they only had Avid pro HD. What a POS that was. Remember Mojo. Crap! Thats when FCP took off and so did I. I could jump back into Avid and feel right at home but the hardware restrictions that Avid has sucks. Adobe doesn't yet play well with my AJA cards, OK but not perfect yet. At least not as well as FCP does or did. If it did I would be all in!
 
Well, I can't comment on FCP, but I learned Avid 13 years ago, then gradually switched to CS5 for editing AVCHD native, and love not transcoding.

I was finally adapting (well, sort of adapting - I'm a slow learner) to P Pro, then got a gig editing Project Runway Latin America 3-6 days/wk on... Avid.
Now it seems I've unlearned (Undo?) what I learned on P PRo... gotta clear some mental cache... :undecided

But Adobe Media Encoder definitely rocks!!!
 
I have worked on Avid for 17 years. I was an early adopter of AVCHD back in 2008 and needed a solution to get into Media Composer. If you are below v5, TMPGenc is the way to go for transcoding .mt2s files. It can practically convert anything to anything.
 
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