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Accessing AVCHD Footage On Your Computer
ere are a number of ways to access AVCHD data with a computer.
Reading AVCHD On SD Cards Directly
e quickest path to working with AVCHD footage would be to read the data directly from the SD
card – this can allow you to edit your footage literally seconds aer shooting, with no waiting for
capture or transcoding. e footage is ready to edit as soon as it is recorded.
As the SD card is a mass storage device, it can be read directly by either Windows or the Mac OS.
Various options exist to connect an SD card directly to a system. Many computers have internal SD
card readers or may accept external readers via USB or 1394. e AVCCAM camcorder itself can be
used as a card reader when connected to the computer. Likewise, the AG-HMR10 handheld recorder
can be used as a card reader.
Using any of these methods, Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 can read, import, and edit the footage on the
cards exactly as if it were stored on a hard disk drive.
Ooading Cards To Hard Disk
AVCHD footage may also be ooaded to hard disk drive and accessed by
by Production Premium
applications as any other files.
Files may be transferred directly from the card to an internal or external hard drive using any of the
methods above to connect the card to a computer, and then using the computer’s operating system
to transfer the les. You may transfer the footage simply by copying the PRIVATE folder to your
desired location.
Direct access of AVCHD data is the same whether you read from the SD card or from a hard disk
or other storage device – you use Windows Explorer or Mac Finder to navigate to the drive, and
then to the specic volume, where you can access any of the data in the AVCHD PRIVATE folder or
subfolders. You are now ready to import the AVCHD data into a CS5 application.
Part 2: Working In Adobe Premiere Pro
Adobe Premiere Pro Project Setup
When opening Adobe Premiere Pro, you will be asked to create a new project, or open an existing
project. If you create a new project, you will then be asked to create a sequence.
It is not necessary to create a sequence before entering Adobe Premiere Pro. It is, however,
necessary to create a sequence before you can begin work, so it is recommended that you create a
sequence at this time.
You may create multiple sequences with any seings and group them together into a single
sequence of any seings. So, you may work in one sequence with seings for 720p and in another
with seings for 1080i -- even at dierent frame rates -- but you may nest either sequence into the
other, or you may nest them both into a third sequence of even dierent seings. How close to real-
time playback you are able to achieve will depend upon your system hardware.
If you do not create a sequence when opening the project, you can create one by pressing
Control+N (Windows) or Command+N (Mac), or by right-clicking, or Control+clicking (Mac), in
the Project panel and choosing “New Item>sequence.” You will then be given options for project
presets; groups of presets will appear in the “Available Presets” box of the “New sequence” panel,
represented as le folders.
Sequence Seings
For AVCHD material, there are a number of preset options found in the AVCHD folder. Your best
option is to choose a sequence seing which ts most, if not all, of the footage you will be using in
the project.
1080i/p -- for any footage, the project preset should be chosen according to the frame rate of the
footage, including whether the footage is progressive or interlaced. In the AVCHD folder, there are
subfolders labeled “1080i” and 1080p” containing the 1080 presets. AVCCAM cameras oer several
Note: for optimal performance, it is
recommended to store the AVCHD
data on hard drives in a striped
RAID, allowing for increased transfer
speeds, very useful for beer
playback performance of multiple
streams and clips with added eects.