HMC-150 Using Premiere Pro?

mdslammer

mdslammer

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Hey guys,

I have a friend who just got the Panny HMC-150. He's bringing it over to my
house today so I can check it out. I told him to bring some footage and his card
reader with him so we could hopefully fly it into my rig and see how it looks.

Question: Will my NLE (Premiere Pro CS4) read the native files for the HMC-150 like it
does with my .MFX files for my HPX-170? If not, then what third party software
is needed to convert it?

NOTE: I believe he's using Sony's Vegas as his NLE. I'm not sure how it works for him
either. Any thoughts on this as well?

Thanks.

Mark Dalzell
 
Vegas 8 (I believe) and Vegas 9, Premiere 4.1 are capable of editing native mts files from the cam.

The real issue is the specs of your computer and GPU.
 
Hi David,

Thanks for the reply.

So the native mts files can be dropped right into PP like my .MFX files?

Great...

Mark

My PC Specs:
VisionDAW 4U 8-Core Xeon Workstation
2 Intel QUAD-Core Xeon 5365-3.0GHz, 8MB, 1333MHz Processors
16GB 667MHz Fully Buffered Server Memory Modules (2x2GB)
Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional x64 Edition
Microsoft® Windows® Windows 7 x64
WDC 250GB, Ultra ATA100, 7200 rpm, 8MG Buffer Main OS HD
2 WWDC 750GB, SATA II, 7200 RPM, 16MB Buffer HD (Raid 0)
2 WDC 750GB, SATA II, 7200 rpm, 16MG Buffer HD (Samples)
2 WDC 1TB Enterprise Class, SATA II, 7200 RPM, 32MB Buffer Hard Drive
MOTU 24 I/O (main) / MOTU 2408mk3 (slave)
Plexor PX-800A 18X Dbl. Layer DVD+/-RW Optical Drive
Front Panel USB Acess
Integrated FireWire (1394a) interface
Thermaltake Toughpower 850W Power Supply
3xUAD1 Universal Audio Cards
NVIDIA QUADRO FX 1800 / Memory 768 MB GDDR3
CUDA Parallel Processor Cores / 64
Maximum Display Resolution Digital @60Hz = 2560x1600
Memory Interface 192Bit
Memory Bandwidth (GB/sec) / 38.4 GB/sec
PCI-Express, DUAL-Link DVI 1
Digital Outputs 3 (2 out of 3 active at a time)
Dual 25.5" Samsung 2693HM LCD HD Monitors
 
Right -- if you're using Premiere, make sure it's CS4 upgraded to version 4.1.

EDIUS and EDIUS Neo can also read native AVCHD files.

Vegas 9 is supposed to be quite a bit more compatible than Vegas 8; I have Vegas 8 and it seems to do fine but I think people have reported 720/60p not working well.
 
Premiere will work great with the files... Except that it will not read the Timecode (which bums me out).

If you buddy is brining a card with the footage on it, then just copy the COMPLETE file structure onto your HDD and then use Adobe's Media Browser to locate it. As soon as you click on the "PRIVATE" folder it will be recognized as AVCHD footage, and you can just import it all into your Scene Bin. Just give it a min or two to conform the footage and you should be good to go.

Phil
 
Barry-Phil (David),

Thanks very much for clarifying and the help.

I can always count on the members / mod's on this forum to come thru. :thumbup:

Regards.

Mark
 
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