![]() If your coming straight from the card, its easy. Fortunately FCPX will do all this transcoding automatically on import of AVCHD! Sweet, that is if you use the Import dialog. Therefore, you need both Audio and Video to be rewrapped and or transcoded from a MTS file, as well as injecting metadata – timecode for example. In MTS, Audio is as much as a problem as video. In FCPX it make LOOK like it is playing back a few files efficiently, but try to deal with more than a handful of shots and you will enter molasses land. Both audio and video are efficiently stored in there… but almost no NLE can play them back completely efficiently. MTS are h264 (well at least in theory) as well as compressed audio. The elements in the AVCHD bundle is not designed to be separated - there is essential metadata in there, for example MTS files are NOT shots but rather elements of shots - if you have a long shot it will be divided into multiple MTS. Mpeg Transport Streams are part of the AVCHD bundle, and they belong in the bundle, not separate if you can help it. If you ever find yourself with MTS files realize you probably shouldn’t have them. Bring them into FCPX and sure they play… sorta. ![]() But only a bit.** MTS files are enough to make a FCPX editor cower in the corner. ![]() ![]() So here they are in no particular order: MTS Files = Media Transcoded by Satan** So after good amount of sleuthing I discovered a few issues and tips. FCPX crashing, being as slow as molasses and not able to share (export). I have heard from colleagues of their trouble with AVCHD media, shot on the sony FS700 in particular. ![]()
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