Re: Best software to view/offload SDHC cards?

Thanks Dan, I appreciate what you guys are doing and I got the impression at last years NAB that ShotPut Pro has become a standard piece of software for many. I just didn't particular like my brief experience with HD-VU.

I'm sure we are doing something that is not the norm for most. We just switched from tape-based HD to flash (SDHC) based HD, AVCHD. Finally we can cost effectively shoot for several weeks overseas and keep our cards as one backup. We also will be doing some editing in the field after offloading our media to a small portable RAID. It will make it so much easier to view footage off locked SDHC cards and transfer only what we want.

I did a test, only because we happen to have a copy of FCPX. The interface in FCPX to ingest directly from a camera or card is exactly what I've been looking for, I'm just not 100% happy with the results.

You can preview footage, ingest only what you want and create ProRes copy all in one easy go. The thing I don't like is that FCPX rewraps the footage as an MOV and once imported back into Premiere it's more of a dog (slow w/JKL) on the timeline than AVCHD. The ProRes works much better, but is 6x the size and I can't afford that real estate loss in the field. On the scopes the AVCHD to ProRes looks really clean though. Unfortunately we have discovered a bug in PP where it squashes highlights in some movs. Not ProRes though.