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

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

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

You may be correct as I've not utilized any of the batching features but it does organize card data into structured folders and can add time code and reel names to help handle the wonderful world of file based ambiguity we get to live with these days. If only someone who worked at Videotoolshed read this list? Then we could get a definitive answer. Oh wait..... '-)

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Michael Brockington wrote:
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> Please correct me if I'm wrong, John, but I don't think QTChange can do
> anything with the AVCHD file structure -- I believe it only works its
> magic with quicktimes.
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> Thanks,
> --Michael
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> On 13-01-16 10:17 AM, johnrobmoore wrote:
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> > Sounds like some of the functionality that QT Change provides for
> > offloading card and organizing files. Just a great program and I only
> > use it to add QT and burn in TC. There is a bunch of stuff for
> > batching cards imports. IIRC. Check VideoToolshed.
> >
> > --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com ,
> > Michael Brockington wrote:
> > >
> > > 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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