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Adobe CS5 Production Premium Panasonic AVCCAM
Top benets
•EditAVCHDinitsnativeformat--no
waitingfortranscoding;youcanedit
secondsaershooting(Page1)
•End-to-endproductionmetadata
withXMP(Page6)
•Takeadvantageoffasttimeline
playbackandrenderingwiththe
MercuryPlaybackEngine(Page1,8)
•TightintegrationbetweenAdobe
PremierePro,AdobeEncore,and
AerEectsletsyouythrough
yourworkow(Page8)
•EnjoyawiderangeofHigh
Denitionoutputchoices(Page11)
e industry-standard compositing and visual eects program, Aer Eects, also supports all frame
sizes and frame rates of AVCHD material in its native format. Aer Eects can import AVCHD
material directly; it can import Adobe Premiere Pro AVCHD project les and sequences, or it can
create composites with AVCHD material inside an Adobe Premiere Pro sequence using Adobe
Dynamic Link.
As of CS5, a 64-bit operating system is required for Adobe Premiere Pro and Aer Eects.
Adobe Encore CS5 soware is a rich set of creative tools for DVD and Blu-ray Disc authoring as well
as web versions of DVD projects (SWF le export to the web).
AVCHD footage may be imported into Adobe OnLocation, where it can be analyzed, mated with
XMP metadata, and included in the script-to-screen workow starting with Adobe Story (available
separately).
With CS5, all applications are nearly identical between the Windows and Mac versions. Most
application project les (Adobe Encore excepted) work in either platform, so crossing between
platforms is as simple as accessing the media les and the project les with either system, either
over a network, or with external hard drives. It is therefore possible, for example, to work in the eld
with a low-cost Windows laptop and then transfer all work to a Mac desktop station, or to work with
both Windows and Mac stations on the same network.
is paper will cover:
Part 1: Acquiring And Archiving Footage To Be Edited. Ways of acquiring AVCHD footage through
shooting, from NLEs, from sharing les, or from content generated by Panasonic AVCHD soware
and equipment, methods for archiving the footage before use in CS5, AVCHD le structure, and
accessing footage on your computer.
Part 2: Working In Adobe Premiere Pro. Project setup, importing footage, working with the
footage, and exporting to a variety of formats. We will explore integration with Adobe Encore and
Aer Eects through Dynamic Link.
Part 3: Working With AVCHD In Aer Eects. Importing footage, creating composites, working
with the footage, and exporting through the render queue. Integration with Adobe Premiere Pro
through Dynamic Link.
Part 4: Adobe CS5 Production Premium HD Delivery Options. Adobe Creative Suite 5 Production
Premium oers a wide array of HD delivery options, including content for the Web, Blu-ray Disc
authoring, Panasonic P2 format, and even export to HD tape for broadcast.
Part 1: Acquiring And Archiving Footage To Be Edited
Acquiring AVCHD Footage
AVCCAM is Panasonic’s brand name for its professional cameras which use the AVCHD codec. e
most common method for acquiring AVCHD footage is to shoot with any of Panasonic’s AVCCAM
cameras, including the AG-HMC40, AG-HMC70, and AG-HMC150 camcorders, and the AG-HCK10
camera head coupled with the AG-HMR10 handheld AVCHD recorder.
Footage already shot may also be delivered on storage media such as hard disk drives, digital tape,
optical media such as CD, DVD, or Blu-ray, or by any other le storage system. As long as the AVCHD
le structure is maintained, these les are identical to the les recorded on an SD card.
AVCHD is recorded to SD and SDHC ash memory cards. It is recorded within a le system common
to all AVCHD equipment. e topmost folder is called PRIVATE. Inside it is a folder called AVCHD,
which contains two folders called AVCHDTN and BDMV. Inside the BDMV folder are three folders
which contain the data for the footage recorded by the camera – CLIPINF, PLAYLIST, and STREAM.
e STREAM folder contains the MTS les, which are the footage.
It is recommended to keep this
le structure intact.
Panasonic AVCHD Soware
No special drivers are needed, as the SD card format is common to and supported by all major
computer operating systems and most computer manufacturers. Cards can be read natively by any
computer with an SD card slot, or through external readers, including the AVCHD camcorder itself.