Best way to handle AVCHD footage - rewrap>rename>ingest OR ingest >rename > tag
I'm shooting mainly AVCHD footage and my workflow involves make an img of the card first then letting FCPx ingest it - transcode because I'm on a little mac mini.
I have also re-wrapped some 1080p60 footage with clip wrap (before i realized FCPx now handles this as of 10.0.4) and then ingested it via file import. I've seen some folks who use Cannon DSLR etc (no AVCHD file structure) actually individually rename each file first (e.g. bob and sue.mov) then import the footage as a keyword collection.
So two different methods. Making an image of the SD card also sucks as you have to mount the image each time to see the contents and FCPx will copy the files to the events folder so now you have just doubled the space! But supposedly conversion / rewrap will remove the meta data - clip wrap has a way to preserve creation date. I've looked and my camera don't seem to really have much meta data (GH2, Gopo 2, TM700) so that would be one disadvantage. Using the file import has a downside as you can't skim and select footage
but I don't seem to use this feature with the AVCHD footage.
So what is the best method - I'm leaning to the rewrap and then ingest and tag / add keyword rather than my img creation method that takes up double the space on my HDs.
I'm shooting mainly AVCHD footage and my workflow involves make an img of the card first then letting FCPx ingest it - transcode because I'm on a little mac mini.
I have also re-wrapped some 1080p60 footage with clip wrap (before i realized FCPx now handles this as of 10.0.4) and then ingested it via file import. I've seen some folks who use Cannon DSLR etc (no AVCHD file structure) actually individually rename each file first (e.g. bob and sue.mov) then import the footage as a keyword collection.
So two different methods. Making an image of the SD card also sucks as you have to mount the image each time to see the contents and FCPx will copy the files to the events folder so now you have just doubled the space! But supposedly conversion / rewrap will remove the meta data - clip wrap has a way to preserve creation date. I've looked and my camera don't seem to really have much meta data (GH2, Gopo 2, TM700) so that would be one disadvantage. Using the file import has a downside as you can't skim and select footage
but I don't seem to use this feature with the AVCHD footage. So what is the best method - I'm leaning to the rewrap and then ingest and tag / add keyword rather than my img creation method that takes up double the space on my HDs.
