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Re: editing AVCHD and iSight clips from iMAC
by Ross Neugeboren on Jun 4, 2008 at 12:02:32 am

Arturo,
At the moment, AVCHD is a hard nut to crack. Some people like it, others steer clear. I'm currently waiting for some AVCHD footage for a lecture series I'm editing, and have heard that Sony's cumbersome proprietary ways are gonna make my ingest hell. On FCP's supported device list, I didn't see your HG10 there, which usually indicates trouble. I put in a call to my friend in Pro Apps at Apple as to AVCHD ins and outs of FCP, I'll post when I hear from him. As for your future problems, I'm not sure to say. I would elect to use a pro or prosumer HDV camera with a tapeless recording solution, such as a firestore FS-3 or Edirol F-1.

As for the iSight usage, that's definitely cool. You can use Photo Booth to capture the footage, and that will be easy to work with in FCP.

For going from iMovie to FCP, I'll say that you'll need some time to encode clips properly for FCP to take them. If you're comfortable with using FCP, I'd say start in FCP. If not, iMovie 08 is great - when you feel you need advanced features like color correction and need to make little tweaks, then move to FCP. But for your purpose, iMovie should work just fine - it may also be easier to work with the HG10.

That's my two cents.

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Ross Neugeboren
GetTheShot


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