Or convert them externally to Avid.
--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "Tony Quinsee-Jover" <tony@...> wrote:
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> Thanks Steve.
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> T.
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> HD Heaven Media Limited (company no: 07061040) is registered in England and
> Wales at Sapphire Heights Courtyard, 31 Tenby Street North, Birmingham B1
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
> Steve Hullfish
> Sent: 07 October 2011 16:35
> To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] AVCHD Hell
>
> There was just a thread on this.
>
> For some reason - a bug? - if you try importing too many AVCHD files at
> once, it will choke on one of the files that hangs everything FOREVER.
>
> If you do them one at a time or in smaller (though still relatively large
> batches) it will import quite quickly.
>
> The actual import of the files isn't bad. I just did an entire project like
> this. When I did 60 files at once, it would inevitably hang on a single
> file. In batches of 20 or 30 files at a time, they came in pretty quickly.
>
> It's a pain, but that's the solution as far as I can tell.
>
> Steve Hullfish
> contributor: www.provideocoalition.com
> author: "The Art and Technique of Digital Color Correction"
> co-author: "Color Correction for Video: revised edition," "Avid Xpress Pro
> Editing Workshop" and "Avid XpressDV On the Spot"
> presenter: Class On Demand's "Complete Training for Avid Media Composer" AND
> "Complete Training for Apple Color"
> www.classondemand.net/media/final-cut-training/color01.aspx
>
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> On Oct 7, 2011, at 7:49 AM, Tony Quinsee-Jover wrote:
>
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > I've asked this question on the Avid forums, but knowing that all the
> > best minds hang out here I thought this might actually be a better
> > place to pose my dilemma.
> > Our client offlined a half hour (24 min) show in PAL 16:9 using maybe
> > 30% HD mts files from a Panasonic MC1P camera. They pulled all these
> > files in at
> > 10:1 on their MC. I now have to online this show. It will be finished
> > on DS, but this question isn't DS related. This is also Prog 1 of a
> > series of shows, so this workflow needs to get nailed.
> > I opened the sequence on MC and consolidated it with 10f handles.
> > I selected "Batch Import" on the MC from the consolidated sequence,
> > selected MXF2:1, and pointed it to all the mts files.
> > After 48 hours MC still hadn't imported 50% of the files and the file
> > it was currently working on said that it had 34 hours to go!
> > Those files which had been imported appeared to be full length, rather
> > than consolidated, meaning that many of them were 30 minutes or more,
> > for maybe 1 sec used.
> > It's been suggested that I'm asking a lot of a 32 bit application to
> > not only import but also rescale all the horrid files, so would I be
> > better importing them at HD (say DNxHD 185) and then switching back to
> > my SD timeline and then consolidating the media to SD? Would MC then
> > only be converting the few seconds used instead of the whole file?
> > Sorry if this last sentence is using some wrong terminology, but I'm
> > no expert on MC these days.
> > Cheers in advance,
> > Tony
> >
> > HD Heaven Media Limited (company no: 07061040) is registered in
> > England and Wales at Sapphire Heights Courtyard, 31 Tenby Street
> > North, Birmingham B1 3ES
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