Take a look at an affordable utility like
CLIPWRAP
This $49.00 utility saved my butt when I needed to ingest from MTS clips captured to a Dull PC laptop.
And it simultaneously transcodes to anything QuickTime on your machine.
On a Xeon 2.26 8-core in 10.5.8, 14 GB of MTS 23.98 transcoded to ProRes (SQ) full raster HD in 1 hour ten minutes, 77GB of tasty edit codec. And it looks gorgeous.
Their $99.00 ScopeBox is pretty awesome too.
Full disclosure: I have received NFR's of both these tools for press purposes.
- Loren
Today's FCP 7 keytip:
Temporarily mix down audio tracks with Command-Option - R !
Your Final Cut Studio KeyGuide? Power Pack
with FCP7 KeyGuide --
now available at KeyGuide Central.
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