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Advice on Converter for AVCHD to something Premiere Can Edit?

Sep 12, 2010 1:30 AM

I'm dealing with some footage from a consumer camcorder in AVCHD, but Premiere CS3 refuses to

import it.

I have looked for converters on Google and tried five different converters. They all produced horrible results.

Does anyone have a converter that they recommend that does a lossless conversion to something like Quicktime or XDCam format?

484 Views   5 Replies   Latest reply: Jim Simon, Sep 14, 2010 7:51 AM
 
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  • Ann Bens
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    1. Ann Bens,
    Sep 12, 2010 3:37 AM   in reply to MarkWeiss
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    http://www.cineform.com/neoscene/

     
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  • Jim Simon
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    2. Jim Simon,
    Sep 12, 2010 8:07 AM   in reply to MarkWeiss
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    Quicktime is just a file format, not a video format.  It can contain many different kind of video.

     

    Like AVCHD, XDCAM is also a lossy format.

     

    I personally would recommend upgrading to CS5, which can handle the footage natively.

     
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    3. John T Smith,
    Sep 12, 2010 8:09 AM   in reply to MarkWeiss
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    What Ann said, or read Convert AVCHD to HDV

    http://forums.adobe.com/thread/390605?tstart=0 (but I don't do that, so don't know if it will work with CS3)

     
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    4. MarkWeiss,
    Sep 12, 2010 9:34 PM   in reply to Ann Bens
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    Neoscene looks pretty good.. is it a plugin or standalone?

     

    Jim, our quad core machines didn't have enough power to run CS4 when we upgraded in Dec 2008, so we had to roll back to CS3 (CS4 would only stutter and halt). CS5 is, I believe, a Windows 7 application, and we're running XP, which is finely-tuned after years of getting to know the OS and the memory management entries in the Registry. CS5 will have to wait until we get a 16-core system and Win 7 64-bit, maybe in 3 more years.

     
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  • Jim Simon
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    5. Jim Simon,
    Sep 14, 2010 7:51 AM   in reply to MarkWeiss
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    our quad core machines didn't have enough power to run CS4

     

    That I find veeeeery difficult to believe.  Were it not you, the first thing I'd point to is Operator Error.

     

    I've had no problems editing the stuff with my i7 using CS4.

     
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