Re: [Avid-L2] Dealing with duplicate clip naming with AVCHD cameras.

On my Panasonic GH2 (which shoots AVCHD) I never re-format; I just "delete
all" files. My clip names continue to increment, with no duplicates.
On Jan 16, 2013 8:29 AM, "Michael Brockington" <brocking@sfu.ca> wrote:

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>
>
> 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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