Re: splitting MVC files

I am just starting to work in Stereoscopic 3D, also with my Sony TD10.

Wimmer's MVC to AVI converter has not been very useful to me, because the data size of any file grows literally 100X, when translated to AVI. For example, a 100MB .m2ts file converted to 2X5GB AVI files. That means that 10GB of footage would transcode to 1TB!

At first, to get around that, I was creating selects, using Wimmer's Stereoscopic Viewer to see the footage, and then Sony's file management software PMB (packaged with the TD10) to trim the files, without changing their codec.

However, after monkeying around with all of this for a couple weeks, the best workflow seems to be to just stick with Vegas. I'm an FCP editor, so it's taking some adjusting, but Vegas handles both the .m2ts format of the TD10, and (theoretically) the Cineform package of the GoPro 3D rig I just bought.

Hopefully, FCP and/or Avid will start cutting .m2ts files natively before too long, but in the meantime, learning Vegas seems like the most elegant solution I've found. Just another reason why Stereoscopic 3D is forcing me to consider migrating from Mac to PC.