SONY HXR MC2000 file transfer issue

[hnemedia]

Hello

I am in need of some help. I purchased two Sony HXR MC2000 AVCHD camera which I use with a new iMac. When attempting to transfer the footage from the camera to the mac by USB the computter only finds some of the clips!.l I can view the clips on the camera on its LCD screen, but when it comes to viewing them on the mac through connecting the USB some of the clips mysteriously vanish. I am utterly confused why this is and it is stressing me out as I am in the middle of wedding season and have weddings sitting on the MC200o which I can't get onto my system to start editing.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Cheers

James

[acgold7]

Macs do not play well with AVCHD.

Which NLE are you using?

[Stephan]

Oh well, I have an iMac now and it does handle AVCHD remarkably well! hehe :-)

The key question here, like Adam said, is firstly: which editing software are you using? I use Final Cut Pro X, and the import process of AVCHD footage into FCP X Events works like a breeze for me.

[Doughie]

If anyone's using a Mac, i think the best workflow when working with AVCHD footage (.MTS files) is to transcode to ProRes422 as early as possible. That will get you away from the ultra-compressed AVCHD codec.

AVCHD is a good codec, but its really a codec to *shoot* with and not a codec to edit with (if you can help it). Transcoding to ProRes422 or for PC platforms, to MPEG2 or something like Cineform codec, is the best thing to do to make the editing process less arduous for your main CPU processor. its very hard work indeed for any processor to edit a long-GOP codec like AVCHD files. Can be done, for sure, i have done it, but it's not that efficient.