How are folks dealing with consumer AVCHD cameras that don't allow
setting custom clip names or prefixes? Every time a memory card is
formatted, the camera starts capturing another series of identically
named clips -- "00000.MTS", "00001.MTS" etc.
If I AMA these clips into Avid and transcode, they appears to retain
timecode, but I think the identical clip names have the potential to
cause me grief when I try to relink to the original files. (Am I being
too paranoid?)
Currently I convert such files externally, creating new DNxHD175
quicktimes, using Adobe Media Encoder CS5.5.1. These effectively become
my new master footage. I batch rename the output quicktimes to add a
unique cardname prefix to the filename then AMA the hi-rez quicktimes,
and transcode them to lower-rez DNx36 for offline editing. There are a
few downsides to this approach:
1. Large DNx175 files clogging up my hard drives
2. Two transcodes instead of one is time-consuming
2. Adobe Media Encoder doesn't appear to pass AVCHD timecode through
to its Quicktime outputs in any way that Avid can understand.
Discarding that info makes me nervous.
Is there a better approach?
Is there a utility that would allow renaming of clips within the AVCHD
file structure without breaking the structure, for instance?
Is there a better software choice for transcoding that would at least
preserve timecode from AVCHD files in the transcoded quicktimes?
Thanks for any suggestions,
--Michael Brockington
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