Thanks so much. I've got at least another week of shoots with this camera, so I'll keep that in mind.
Steve Hullfish
contributor: www.provideocoalition.com
On Sep 23, 2011, at 2:13 PM, Wilson Chao wrote:
> Steve,
>
> No, it's not your drives, and it's not the folder structure, it's
> MC 5, which I've found to be a bit flakey importing AVCHD. I've been
> working with AVCHD files from a Panasonic GH2 (1080 23.98p, 24mbps
> VBR) which I believe uses the same codecs as the AF100. Here's what
> I've found, working on an ancient single-core HP 8400, MC 5.5.3, using
> generic bare SATA drives mounted via USB3.0:
>
> * If you import any individual file of any length, it's got a 99%
> chance of coming in fine. This takes about twice real-time, ie. 50
> minutes to import a 25 min. clip & transcode to DNxHD. Everything
> ends up looking fine, without the gamma problems reported with
> 3rd-party transcoding solutions.
>
> * If you batch import a dozen *short* clips (of a minute or two each),
> it's got a 90%+ chance of importing them fine. Once in a while the
> machine will lock up hard, and you'll have to power down and reboot,
> and it will look like none of the files imported. But if you look in
> the media tool, there they are, just fine.
>
> * If you batch import a dozen *long* clips you have essentially zero
> chance of success. Some will come in, but then one of them will lock
> up. There actually *is* a surefire indication - if you look at the
> import progress bar you'll see two numbers: an elapsed time, and an
> expected time to complete. If the import is working, the elapsed time
> will be incrementing upward, and the expected time will be more or
> less constant. But if the import has locked up, the elapsed time
> *and* the expected time will both be incrementing upward, which means
> you'll never get there. Now it's time to crash out, reboot MC, and
> start over.
>
> * Then when you individually import the long clip that froze, it's
> fine. Don't ask me why you can import individual files, but not batch
> import them all. Note that when a Panasonic AVCHD camera records
> continuously it automatically chunks 4GB files, so yeah, you're always
> going to see "long" clips.
>
> I have no solution to this problem. My workaround is to simply
> import small batches, by hand. Yeah, it sucks. Despite this, I
> *love* my GH2 which I got last month. It makes beautiful video. The
> AVCHD codec is amazingly good for such a low bit-rate. If you're
> willing to deal with all the well-known limitations of the DSLR
> form-factor, this camera rocks!
>
> Cheers,
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