Workflow options for OSX

[j1clark@ucsd.edu]

Reverse-telecining? That makes no sense at all to me in the context of video. Reverse telecine implies burning video to film, presumably for projection or archive.

It is veriously named, but the GH-1 encapsulates the 24 fps material in a telecined 60i stream. Hence, the need to 'inverse/reverse/remove' the telecine processed frames.

If someone has shot with one of the 'standard' video rates, of 60i, 30p, 50i, 25p, then no 'reverse/inverse/remove' telecine process is required.

There appears to be a hack to allow for 'native' 24p, however, I have also read that the hack is unstable, and many people still use the 60i format, albeit with the hacked higher bit rate.

 

[zcream]

Majik. Can we establish something here ? When you open JES, the first window is Input. Now you click on Choose.
The file that you are selecting, is it a .mov or a .mts extension ?

I used JES Deinterlacer -until I hacked my GH1 to native 24p I still use it for 60fps slow-mo stuff though. It's free: http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/13069/jes-deinterlacer

 

[Katana2040]

Can anyone recommend a good 'mts' to 'mov' converter? Hopefully one that doesn't recompress the file too badly. I am shooting on a hacked gh1(3) with native 24p enabled, but I am editing on an old G5 QUAD system. Thanks in advance.

p.s.
I am editing in Final Cut Studio 2

 

[Ben_B]

Can anyone recommend a good 'mts' to 'mov' converter? Hopefully one that doesn't recompress the file too badly. I am shooting on a hacked gh1(3) with native 24p enabled, but I am editing on an old G5 QUAD system. Thanks in advance.

p.s.
I am editing in Final Cut Studio 2

http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?232884-GH2-OSX-I-frame-workflow-speed-test

 

[Katana2040]

http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?232884-GH2-OSX-I-frame-workflow-speed-test

Thanks, Ben! Good looking out!

 

[eyeBOX]

Can anyone recommend a good 'mts' to 'mov' converter? Hopefully one that doesn't recompress the file too badly. I am shooting on a hacked gh1(3) with native 24p enabled, but I am editing on an old G5 QUAD system. Thanks in advance.

p.s.
I am editing in Final Cut Studio 2

Same question.. however, FCP 5.. I'm interested in purchasing a GH1, but I'd like to know how to get files into FCP 5. Another option may be to get files into vista somehow and transfer them to the mac.. Can anyone give an explanation on how to get the AVCHD files into either of the machines? Transcoding to an intermediary codec would be fine; I am aware that this takes time. I'd just like an alternative to going out to shoot with my HVX, and I really don't need / want to upgrade to a whole new editor ($$$).

 

[Ben_B]

Ummm...see above post. Try Clipwrap.

 

[eyeBOX]

Ummm...see above post. Try Clipwrap.

Thanks Ben_B, but the website says on the FAQ page:

"Do you support the Panasonic GH1? Not currently. We are still working to support the specific flavor of h264 encoding this camera uses to compress video. We'll announce more information when we have some."

http://www.divergentmedia.com/clipwrap/faq

Anybody have this set-up / workflow? Advice..?

 

[Ben_B]

I've used it with GH2 footage and I don't see why it wouldn't work with GH1 footage....you should download the trial and give it a go. Try transcoding to ProRes with it and rewrapping.

 

[simonharris]

Audio is missing on the right channel from the clip that Rewrap2M4V creates - do you know any way to resolve this please? many Thanks

 

[Pieter1080]

Can anyone recommend a good 'mts' to 'mov' converter? Hopefully one that doesn't recompress the file too badly. I am shooting on a hacked gh1(3) with native 24p enabled, but I am editing on an old G5 QUAD system. Thanks in advance.

You can rewrap the MTS file to M4V using the free ffmpeg:
http://ffmpegmac.net/

ffmpeg -i input.mts -acodec copy -vcodec copy output.m4v

This will convert the contents without any transcoding.

AC3 audio can be processed on the Mac by installing the Perian components.