I encountered this just the other day. In preparing for a project, I talked to someone bringing a second camera, who told me they were going to shoot on tape. I knew how long the final video was going to be, so I was counting on, let's say, four times that much space for the raw footage to take up on my MacBook Pro internal drive.
Unfortunately, even though the video looked sweet from the camera they brought, the footage was recorded to SD card and I had to use Log & Transfer to import it into FCP6. Like Rupert mentions, this resulted in INSANELY LARGE file sizes that I wasn't prepared for, which were also a BEAST to edit with, as far as not wanting to play smoothly in my timeline on a 2.33 GHz Core Duo MBP with 2 gig of ram. Fortunately for me, I was able to borrow an external drive at the client site, because the transferred AVCHD had taken up all the space I had allotted for DV or HDV footage. Bill Cammack http://BillCammack.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "ruperthowe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "The Apple Apps all have means to ingest AVCHD footage." > > Not quite true. The *newest* Apple apps support AVCHD, but with > limitations. The terrible (in my view) new iMovie 08, for instance > supports it, but not the better iMovie 6. If you have an older > version of iMovie or FCP, you're stuck. But then if you have an older > Mac, you're stuck, too. Quick google told me that FCP 6 (the latest > version) initially didn't allow AVCHD import, and then was updated > last summer to allow it, but with big limitations - only on a Mac Pro > and not natively: it transcodes to other codecs that use 10 times more > space than native AVCHD. > > For PCs, Sony Vegas does support AVCHD - and I like Vegas a lot. > > Rupert > http://twittervlog.tv > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Christopher Polack > <ottorabbit@> wrote: > > > > Panasonic also has a hybrid camera - > > > http://www2.panasonic.com/consumer-electronics/shop/Cameras-Camcorders/Camcorders/Hi-Def-Camcorders/model.HDC-HS9_11002_7000000000000005702 > > > > > > Check > > respective NLE software sites for AVCHD workflow info. > > >
