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
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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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