I've looked around a lot but not seen any answers to this question- what is the best way to deal with your AVCHD footage from a camcorder in FCP?? I mean the best way to create a library of AVCHD original footage that you can lookup and find stuff in later.
#1- On the HD camera the files are stored by date and time, in relevant subdirectories. If you import them into your PC (not mac) you can get M2ts (AVCHD) files sorted by date and time. So you have 1 directory of year, and sub of mont and sub of day and .m2ts files listed by date and time. Nothing else, no other directory structure.
#2 - On the Mac, I can do "log and transfer" from the camera (only the camera, not the disc with the files mentioned above) to get the AVCHD footage into Prores 422 for use with FCP, but if I do I loose the date in the filename and just get "Clip #1" and so on.
Using #1, I could use Roxio Toast with preserves the filename and will convert to Prores 422 and save in the destination of my choice. Roxio only needs the .m2ts file, does not require the whole directory structure like FCP. So if I "toast" #1, I get the files in sequential time order in Prores 422.
Using #2, I just get a list of files on the Mac in "clip #1" to "Clip #nn" and have to figure out where they are.
So my point is that working with AVCHD is kind of weird, what is the best way of maintaining your AVCHD libary? And associate prores editable library?
#1- On the HD camera the files are stored by date and time, in relevant subdirectories. If you import them into your PC (not mac) you can get M2ts (AVCHD) files sorted by date and time. So you have 1 directory of year, and sub of mont and sub of day and .m2ts files listed by date and time. Nothing else, no other directory structure.
#2 - On the Mac, I can do "log and transfer" from the camera (only the camera, not the disc with the files mentioned above) to get the AVCHD footage into Prores 422 for use with FCP, but if I do I loose the date in the filename and just get "Clip #1" and so on.
Using #1, I could use Roxio Toast with preserves the filename and will convert to Prores 422 and save in the destination of my choice. Roxio only needs the .m2ts file, does not require the whole directory structure like FCP. So if I "toast" #1, I get the files in sequential time order in Prores 422.
Using #2, I just get a list of files on the Mac in "clip #1" to "Clip #nn" and have to figure out where they are.
So my point is that working with AVCHD is kind of weird, what is the best way of maintaining your AVCHD libary? And associate prores editable library?