AVCHD with Log&Transfer or transcoding of individual MTS files

ustein

ustein

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As I understand Log&Transfer requires the original AVCHD folder structure or even the card.

I find this not very efficient because I would easily transcode also footage I may not car about (disk space). That is why I transcode individual MTS files with ClipWrap or Neoscene.

What is the drawback of my method in terms of video quality.
 
ustein said:
As I understand Log&Transfer requires the original AVCHD folder structure or even the card.

I find this not very efficient because I would easily transcode also footage I may not car about (disk space). That is why I transcode individual MTS files with ClipWrap or Neoscene.

What is the drawback of my method in terms of video quality.
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The folder structure takes up very little, so why not just keep the entire folder structure just in case?
 
The original folder structure is no problem in terms of space. The problem is to transcode the full source.

Also I like to rename the MTS files to make them unique.
 
ustein said:
The problem is to transcode the full source. .
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Hi Uwe,

Can you explain what you mean about that? I could be wrong about what's next if I misunderstood you.

You can set ins and outs on the Log and Transfer utility if you don't want to transcode the full source.

I've often transcoded to ProRes Proxy on FCP, done an edit and the used clip-manager to trim down the source files and then "batch capture" just the footage/shots that made the final edit in 422 HQ.

I also like to make disk images of media (the disk images can be named appropriately) and this works well with all cards (P2, AVCHD SD cards etc.).

Perhaps this was totally unhelpful and I'm telling you something you already know. If that's the case, I apologise.
 
Petros,

makes sense. The log & transfer workflow makes sense as you describe. But still in your OS the files have these stupid numbered file names. Adding clips later would require quite a search in the clips.

My question is actually different: Do you see quality issues if I transcode these MTS files directly with other tools.
 
If using L&T, it's converting the codec into ProRes. If using NeoScene, it's converting the codec into the CineForm codec. These are both high-quality editing codecs, you shouldn't see any noticeable degradation.

If using ClipWrap, it's maintaining the native footage in its native format.
 
> If using NeoScene, it's converting the codec into the CineForm codec.

Neoscene can convert to ProRes too

>If using ClipWrap, it's maintaining the native footage in its native format.

ClipWrap has also options to convert to ProRes (quite fast by the way).

The problem maybe to find subtle quality differences.
 
archiving is my reason for keeping the avchd "private" folder structure. i create a folder with a name that deals with the project and then drop the private folder from the card onto that. when i log and transfer it sees that folder's name and uses that as the reel name.

once i edit i can then delete the capture scratch material. if i ever need a clip from that project its a simple 3 clicks to get it back. 8gbs of avchd equals about 50gbs of prores, so its a whole lot easier to archive the avchd rather than the prores.
 
Thanks.

>so its a whole lot easier to archive the avchd rather than the prores.

I do this too. Only the clips that are part of a project get saved with the project.

>if i ever need a clip from that project its a simple 3 clicks to get it back.

Lets assume the reel has 50 clips how would you find missing clips without visiting them all? If I rename the clips I can find them pretty fast.
 
"Lets assume the reel has 50 clips how would you find missing clips without visiting them all? If I rename the clips I can find them pretty fast."

timecode.
 
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