MTS files, I programmed a little tool myself that will rewrap the clips for you, ignoring all the missing metadata. If you lost your folder structure and are only left with the. The information that is lost (timecode) is not of interest to you unless you do some dual system sound recording and fancy stuff. And it's fine for converting and then getting rid of your AVCHD data. The free tool Free AVCHD to Mov Converter on the Mac App Store keeps just as much of the metadata and doesn't cost you anything. It does keep some of the metadata from AVCHD, but not all of it. If you are a professional editor, this is worth it, but if not, it is overpriced in my opinion. Just to be clear: Clipwrap will cost you $50. mov files from the camera but I also use other redundant backups and always have at leas one off site backup. Periodically I clear out those large files.īackup is an issue. The next step is to export it to some usable format for my Apple TV or iPod.Īfter the video is exported there is no need to keep the large ProRes files around unless I think I might re-edit. OK so then I have an edited vedio based on the ProRes files.
I FCP X I can at any time trash the large prores files. In FCP X I can turn that off and edit with the original. the import/transcode process goes very slow. This can have the 5x effect you describe but those prores files are the best format for editing.
I like to archive the video at this point, avetr it is converted to something quicktime can use. Some people do a rough edit just to cull out the total junk that is out of focus and whatever. You do have to decide at which point you do the archive. Clipwrape is as fast as a "copy" and I use it rathe than drag an drop to get video off the SD card. You cn also use "handbrake" but I'm pretty sue handbook will transcode the video. But when I do record in AVCHD I use some software called "clicpwrap" that can rewrap the video without transcoding. My canon HD camcorder has the option to record mp4 format video that quicktime can directly work with.
You need to develop a work flow that you like.