New Camera... AVCHD file, how to import it?
by Benjamin Tattersley
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Jul 25, 2008 at 3:09:49 pm
I have purchased a new Canon HF10 camera and now know it records AVCHD format files or something like that. The file extension is .m2ts . Anybody know of a way of getting these files into after effects?
Re: New Camera... AVCHD file, how to import it? by david bogie on Jul 25, 2008 at 5:40:02 pm
[Benjamin Tattersley]"Anybody know of a way of getting these files into after effects?"
You will need to capture it with another application and export to more conventional format. I do not know Canon's line but there is probably a user group especially for that model. You should haver received software of some kind for importing or, at the very least, a manual.
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Re: New Camera... AVCHD file, how to import it? by Benjamin Tattersley on Jul 25, 2008 at 5:58:00 pm
its a consumer grade hd camcorder and there is only some software to play back the file :/. ive been doing some research and found that there are some solutions to the problem and have also found that vegas can import and export the footage.
Re: New Camera... AVCHD file, how to import it? by Bill Aston on Oct 31, 2008 at 7:21:02 pm
Ben
It's somewhat encouraging that this "consumer grade" AVCHD codec can be seen on the PC side of things (Vegas). But, I'm amazed at how prevalent this new format is and it's preparation for blue ray technology, that nothing seems to be straightforward in terms of an IO for Final Cut?!
Any ideas? What am I missing here? How do I capture AVCHD, albeit maybe a consumer grade format to my Final Cut browser?
Re: New Camera... AVCHD file, how to import it? by Dave LaRonde on Jul 29, 2008 at 4:04:37 pm
[Benjamin Tattersley]"I have purchased a new Canon HF10 camera and now know it records AVCHD format files or something like that. The file extension is .m2ts . Anybody know of a way of getting these files into after effects?"
You won't want to bring that footage into AE without converting it to something else first.
Dave's Stock Answer #1:
If the footage you imported into AE is any kind of the following -- Native HDV, MPEG1, MPEG2, mp4, m2t, H.261 or H.264 -- you need to convert it to a different codec.
These kinds of footage use temporal, or interframe compression. They have keyframes at regular intervals, containing complete frame information. However, the frames in between do NOT have complete information. Interframe codecs toss out duplicated information.
In order to maintain peak rendering efficiency, AE needs complete information for each and every frame. But because these kinds of footage contain only partial information, AE freaks out, resulting in a wide variety of problems.
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