Ingesting large amounts of avchd

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Orlando McNulty

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Hi,

I've been shooting a doc. over the past 5 months and have accumulated a great deal of avchd footage. At the end of each shooting day I would just clone the sd cards from my af100 and gh2, and label them with date and location.

I am wondering what the best way to deal with this in post is. I am currently in the middle of log and transfering everything to Prores 422 in FCP, simultaneously entering metadata for each clip, but am seeing that it will end up taking up MASSIVE amounts of hd space. I just bought two 3tb 7200 internal drives for my 8core, but am realizing that this is not even going to be close to enough space to house all of my prores.

Does anyone have better suggestions on how to do this?

Thanks!
 
Personally I'd just bite the bullet and pull in everything as ProRes and adjust hard drive space to meet the demand.

Noah
 
NoahK said:
Personally I'd just bite the bullet and pull in everything as ProRes and adjust hard drive space to meet the demand.

Noah
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Yeah I figure that's the best way. I just wanted to make sure there isn't some obvious solution that I'm not dealing with. My new hobby is watching the log and transcode bar fill up. I put 12 gb of ram in my machine though so at least it goes relatively fast!

What do you think the best option is for when you run out of int. HD bays? Should I just go external at that point? or is there a better way to get more int. hard drives?
 
Why don't you use Pro Res LT since your source footage is avchd (which is around 24mbps). The bit rate for regular pro res is around 150 or so I believe and it may be overkill.
 
I have 3.4tb of prores 422 already transcoded. Would switching over now make a difference, and would cutting them together be a problem?
 
if you switch now you will end up with a prores 422 and a proves LT sequence. if you do switch, you will have to render out the 422 transcoded clips that you brought into the LT timeline.
 
I feel your pain. I just lost 180 gb transcoding AVCHD footage to Pro Res LT. There really is no way around it unless you have Premiere CS5 and a supped up computer that can handle .mts files.
 
I actually do have cs5, and I'm pretty sure my computer would be able to handle it. I have a 8core mac pro 2x2.8GHz with 12gb of ram....
The only problem is that I feel like using premiere would significantly complicate the prospects of working with an editor after I get a good understanding of my rushes...
 
Does anyone have better suggestions on how to do this?
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Convert the rest of the footage to a much less quality, proxy, or even DV. Make your rough cut on that lower quality sequence, then only convert those clips to prores422 (that made into this cut), and simply relink the clips.*

*:Of course you need to change the sequence settings to this new codec.
**As for the combining the 422 and 422(LT) on the same sequence; you can click on the sequence settings and under the render tab, you can change how you want to render them. Regardless one has to be rendered.
 
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