Beginner Question on AVCHD concerning FCE4.0

JWitsen

JWitsen

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Hey guys, hope you take kindly to new posters.

I've been lurking pretty hard in the HMC150 forum, and I have seen multiple posts stating final cut express cannot handle AVCHD, which the HMC150 records to.
Yet on my Final Cut Express 4.0 box, it says right on the front "Powerful video editing for dv, Hdv, and AVCHD"

Am i missing something? Either everyone on here saying final cut express cant handle AVCHD is wrong, or Apple is lying on the front of their box. Please help clear this up?



:dankk2:JWitsen.
 
JWitsen said:
Hey guys, hope you take kindly to new posters.

I've been lurking pretty hard in the HMC150 forum, and I have seen multiple posts stating final cut express cannot handle AVCHD, which the HMC150 records to.
Yet on my Final Cut Express 4.0 box, it says right on the front "Powerful video editing for dv, Hdv, and AVCHD"

Am i missing something? Either everyone on here saying final cut express cant handle AVCHD is wrong, or Apple is lying on the front of their box. Please help clear this up?



:dankk2:JWitsen.
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I don't think things have changed recently, but when you capture/import/digest AVCHD material, FCE 4.0 converts it to Apple Intermediate Codec, and then uses that for further editing.

I shot a short film in November using the HMC 150, using 24 fps, and when I brought the footage into FCE, it was converted to AIC 24 fps. However, FCE only has the ability to edit with setups using one of 25 fps or 29.97 fps, so I edited my short using 25 fps.

With my CS4 Premiere setup, the last update indicated 'native' AVCHD editing was available... well... sure, but it's not ready for prime time... so, I'd still convert to AIC for the present time...
 
David S. said:
FCE 4 will import and convert AVCHD to AIC on an Intel Mac except for 24p material
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When imported my 24p AVCHD footage from the HMC 150 using FCE 4.0, the transcoding did in fact result in a 24p AIC file. FCE doesn't have the ability to setup a timeline for 24p...

I bought FCE when I only had After Effects, and so could use AE, such as it is, to edit 24p material if I had to, but liked FC for the general editing capability, even if limited to 25 PAL or 29.97 NTSC...

As it was, I edited my HMC 150 material in a 25 fps PAL time line... causing all manner of nasting of teeth amongst the purists no doubt... but since most of my scenes where at most 30-60 seconds, then edited down to perhaps 2-10 seconds, the timing differences could be easily adjusted for.

I was also able to burng a DVD which is playable on several modern DVD players...
 
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