THE FIRST STEP IS IF YOU ARE USING A MAC THAT IS RUNNING MTN. LION 10.8 THEN YOU WILL HAVE TO CHANGE THE NAMES FOR YOUR RAW MEDIA FILES.
Once an AVCHD folder structure is copied to a computer running Mac OS X v10.8, the subdirectory that contains the media itself will appear with a single QuickTime document (which is in fact a package) inside it. This will most likely be called 'PRIVATE' but may have a different name.
You HAVE TO change the "PRIVATE" to lowercase AVCHD and BDMV to lowercase,
Change this "AVCHD"
To this "avchd"
Here is an example of what the file structure should look like for a file that was recorded in a Panasonic HMC 150 camera
Launch Media Composer
Step One when you back up the files PLEASE KEEP THE CARD DATA STRUCTURE INTACT - DON'T CHANGE ANY NAMES AND COPY EVERYTHING OFF THE CARDSThis is an example of a SD card recorded in a Sony A7SII |
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Example shown here a SD Card recorded in a Canon C100 Make a new folder called "Day 1 Card 1" for example and copy the "Private" folder containing the AVCHD file. Don't just copy the AVCHD file. Make Sense!!! Otherwise the files won't open in AVID or Premiere. |
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HMC 150 FILE STRUCTURE THE SAME THING COPY THE PRIVATE FOLDER - Don't just copy the Stream files or the clipinf - PLEASE ASK FOR HELP IF YOU DON'T understand this will make your footage unusable.
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Launch Media Composer |
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The Initial Project Screen will open. Here is where you choose where you create and save new projects. Click on the "Folder" to select where to save your new projects also how to navigate to already existing projects. |
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Navigate to the hard drive and folder that you want AVID to access and save new projects |
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You can look at the path where AVID will be accessing projects once you select the folder |
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Now click on the "New Project" button |
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The New Project Dialog will come up. Select the project parameters |
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Select the newly created project and Click OK at the Select Project Screen |
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When the project opens the next step will be to link to the |
raw files that were backed up in their native file structure. |
>Tools>Source Browser |
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Navigate to the folder on your hard drive that is located in>Local Disk or hard |
is the location of the clips when the removable drive
The next screen prompt will ask you to choose the AMA bin configuration. Just use the Default > Bins Based on Current AMA Setting and click OK |
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Note – If you are not using a UT- Radio TV Film Computer then you might get this problem.
If you do then you need to install the AMA Plug Ins for AVID so that AVID can read the raw media files from the camera. To find where to download the plug ins go to >Marketplace>AMA Plug-Ins |
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Back in AVID go to >Bin>Choose Columns |
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Choose the two settings >Video and Video File Format |
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drive>Card 01 or Private etc>
Click on LINK |
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| A new bin will open and populate with the raw data files. They look like AVID clips but there is one difference in the icon that looks like a "Master Clip" with a chain link attached to it. |  |
| This is the comparison of the normal Master Clip and |
| a linked file |  |
Back in AVID go to >Bin>Choose Columns |
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Choose the two settings >Video and Video File Format You will notice the linked clips will have a .MTS file format |
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Next we need to change the AMA linked files to normal AVID Master Clips . All we are doing is or changing a .MTS file to a .MXF file AVID uses natively.
In other words transcoding to a .mxf file.
To do this, select all the AMA files in the linked file bin shown above.
Then Choose >Clip>Consolidate/Transcode |
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Chose to: Transcode Video and Audio on the same drive and choose your drive as the destination for the files
Convert to project frame rate
Target Video Res DNxHD 175 MXF
Convert the audio to 48K and 24 bit
Click Transcode |
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This dialog box will pop up showing how many clips are being transcoded and how long it will take. |
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After Transcoding the master clips you want to use will have a .new extension
The next step is to make a new AVID bin and move your "Transcoded" master clips (with the .new extension) to a new bin and close the bin that holds the AMA linked files. Edit with the master clips in your AVID project. They can be used just as any AVID master clip would be used in the AVID project.