someone's digging or, whatever, and hits a power line. In one case, with TMPGenc 4.0, it looked like rendering time for each clip might be as long as three weeks (yeah, yeah. What really suxxs, is that each test takes soooooooo much time. Though those solutions sometimes brought me tantalizingly close to the grail, I have yet to arrive. Thank you, thank you, and thank you again. Various members of the forum have proposed solutions. My quest for the holy grail is to import material from those cameras into MC 3.5 for use in a multicam setup. This I will playfully call an "unrant." I purchased two ACVHD cameras for reasons mentioned on a previous post. Sony and Panasonic supposedly created the format jointly, but both have different implementations.Ĭurrently there are a variety of ways to work with AVCHD if it's necessary, but they will require additional steps. Also it's another of those not-really-a-format formats. I imagine that AVCHD support will arrive in time (perhaps AMA will help in that?) but it's a complex format and can be quite demanding on system resources. I would much rather have a camera costing $1,000 destroyed than one costing $3-4,000. Since I am physically distant from 2-3 of the multicam cameras, often in an auditorium, they are subject to theft or damage. I can get a decent ACHVD camera that can record for 3 hours unattended for under $1,000. My problem is that I work solo and have become addicted to multicam stuff.
Right now that appears to be TEMPenc 4.0 and MainConcept 1.1. I am offering the foregoing thought simply because I think most of us are just looking for the best possible solution. But still, presumably no one knows MC better than Avid and, therefore, Avid / Pinnacle is in the best possible position of anyone to make a suitable AVCHD "front end" to Avid. True, in fairness to Pinnacle, I am a newby and maybe I was doing things wrong. I purchased Pinnacle Studio 12 Ultimate figuring that since that line was owned by Avid and since Pinnacle advertises AVCHD compatibility, I could use Pinnacle as a "front end" for Avid MC.
SOFTWARE TRANSFER UTILITY LE FOR AVCHD PROFESSIONAL
I have heard it said that AVCHD is a consumer approach as opposed to a professional one and, hence, it is not suitable for inclusion as part of MC's feature set (at this time). OK, I have made that "feature request," but I whole-heartedly agree and would add in my two cents here. The more flexible MC is the less I have to hear about that other program and what it does that MC doesn't. This may be considered a "feature request" but I'll put my vote in for it.