Hi folks,
I am really struggling with getting a workflow together.I have recently started using a GH2 which has the Driftwood Apocalypse now patch on, the camera works well apart from not playing back the videos(I have read this can happen with some of the higher bit rate patches so I guess I will just have to live with that).However putting the footage onto my mac and editing it is proving an absolute nightmare.
Firstly I struck gold,finding the panny plug in that allows MTS files to be readable by the mac,good start.
However when the files are played back on the mac,either in FCP7 or VLC,they are horrible and jumpy,freezing often and just being a pain.
I have now downloaded MPEG Stream which when used to export the MTS files as quicktime files (.MOV?) does allow correct playback in VLC but gets a media offline and unrendered message in FCP7 also 1.the quality seems to have suffered 2.it took almost an hour to export a 30 second clip and 3. the array of options when exporting was baffling,I guess at aspect ratios etc.
This workflow seems very long,seeing as I can't preview clips on the camera, it will take more than an hour to go from shooting to actually seeing the footage back and checking it is ok.
Does anyone have a better workflow for this setup?Something a bit more user friendly and/or quicker?
The macbook is a 2011 pro upgraded to 8gb ram and a 500GB hard drive running at 5400rpm, I would have thought at these specs it would handle the files comfortably?
Cheers folks.
I am really struggling with getting a workflow together.I have recently started using a GH2 which has the Driftwood Apocalypse now patch on, the camera works well apart from not playing back the videos(I have read this can happen with some of the higher bit rate patches so I guess I will just have to live with that).However putting the footage onto my mac and editing it is proving an absolute nightmare.
Firstly I struck gold,finding the panny plug in that allows MTS files to be readable by the mac,good start.
However when the files are played back on the mac,either in FCP7 or VLC,they are horrible and jumpy,freezing often and just being a pain.
I have now downloaded MPEG Stream which when used to export the MTS files as quicktime files (.MOV?) does allow correct playback in VLC but gets a media offline and unrendered message in FCP7 also 1.the quality seems to have suffered 2.it took almost an hour to export a 30 second clip and 3. the array of options when exporting was baffling,I guess at aspect ratios etc.
This workflow seems very long,seeing as I can't preview clips on the camera, it will take more than an hour to go from shooting to actually seeing the footage back and checking it is ok.
Does anyone have a better workflow for this setup?Something a bit more user friendly and/or quicker?
The macbook is a 2011 pro upgraded to 8gb ram and a 500GB hard drive running at 5400rpm, I would have thought at these specs it would handle the files comfortably?
Cheers folks.
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