Convert AVCHD to H264 without transcoding?

Is it possible with PRE 9 (or 10?) to bring in AVCHD clips (MTS's) and output a H264 file without transcoding (decompressing and recompressing). I am trying to get the highest quality and highest resolution file that is Quicktime compatible and/or playable on Apple TV. Thanks

PrE does not do smart rendering, in that it WILL Transcode on Export/Share.
I would look into Apple's QuickTime Pro (US $ 29 upgrade/unlock), as I believe that it will do just what you want.
Good luck,
Hunt

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The more automated processes the better.
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yeah Media reconnect can be an issue.
Will Media Manager convert files? Another thing I was thinking was to Media Manage the sequence out, copying all the used files to a new folder, and then running that through compressor. But it still leads to a massive reconnect. Fine tuning all those edits would be less involved than re-editing the whole thing, I hope.

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Can the mac mini i7, 8gigs ram, external FW800 drive, edit avchd 1920/1080p without having to convert it?
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By default it converts it to ProRes 422, though you can specify other codecs.
Why convert it?
Although FCP X can handle AVCHD natively, AVCHD being a "delivery" codec is not really suitable for editing.
ProRes is designed specifically for ease of editing especially with complex effects and colour correction.
If your editing is going to be fairly basic you can get away with leaving your media as AVCHD.
Note also that an hour of ProRes is around 50GB !

Which option I need to choose when I export AVCHD to a movie , without transcoding?

It says that Adobe Premiere CS5 can import and natively edit AVCHD content . without transcoding. How can I do this ? It seems when I export AVCHD MTS from my camera to Premiere , and want to join multiple MTS clips into ine timeline , which options may I choose to export , without transcoding?
I have try Blu-ray it transcodes to m4v , or using adobe dinamic link to encore , it ask me to transcode.

Premiere does import and edit native AVCHD.
Alll exports are encoded / transcoded.
AVCHD is a camera ( source) codec only. Not a delivery format from an edit.

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Hy!
My question is: Is it possible to export from the original footage without transcoding bits that dont need to?
I am using a Canon Eos 550d which produces h264 .mov files with 49mbit/sec. As I believe mercury-playback-engine acts as a frameserver to the editing program of CS5 and serves only I-frames to Premiere. Mercury decodes the files and plays them back, and btw it doesnt report the proper clip properties - My Canon Eos 550d .mov footage (sequence setting: preset: digital slr - dslr 1080p25) shows up as "Type: MPEG Movie" when I choose right-click-Properties. But I assume that internally the footage is not transcoded to mpeg but just decoded by mercury and played back, so Premiere only gets I-frames to handle.
So the question at this point is: What is the source of footage that the export module uses? Does the export module rely on mercury and is feeded only i-frames (aka decoded footage), so that transcoding has to be done, as not to transcode at this point would mean to save uncompressed 25p-full-size-frames one after the other? Or is the export module taking the source file and re-encoding (I understand that there is no "transcoding" with h264, or at the time beeing not yet..) it (because then, as I understand, it would be possible to save parts of sequences withour re-rendering them)?
So, if it is possible, how to tell the export module not to re-encode the bits that dont need re-rendering (all parts that are not near any cuts or effects)- which settings are to be taken, or is there an automatism?
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You are looking for "Smart Rendering." PrPro does not offer that. Not sure which NLE program you will need, but I think that at least one version of Sony's Vegas offers that. Google/Bing "smart rendering," and you should get a list of NLE's, that support it.
Now, there can be major issues, as one is going from a GOP format, to a GOP format. Might, or might not, come out right.
Good luck,
Hunt

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My machine lacks the horsepower to handle native AVCHD without a lot of jerky playback issues, and in a previous thread I got a lot of good advice on solving this problem. Short of buying faster ponies, the best solution as I understand it is to first convert to the native DV-AVI Type II format that Premeire uses.
I thought that finding the appropriate conversion tool would be a short Google and / or Adobe Forum search away, but half a day of searching both and I've still not found a suitable solution. I'm attempting to convert .mts files from a Panasonic AG-HMC70P camera. Here are the results thus far for PC based programs:
Koyote
It may get the job done, but it installs malware so it's a non starter.
Super8
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VoltaicHD
Seems like a nice program, but the output files didn't seem to play nice with Premiere. Audio & video out of sync.
I've looked at many others but these are the only ones I've downloaded and given a try. I'm sure I'm not the only one here who needs to do this conversion. If you have a tool that you're using that supports batches of files, I'd be grateful if you'd share the info on it.
If I can't find a good conversion program (wouldn't have thought it would be so hard to find one), I'm wondering if Adobe Media Encoder would generate the same results. In other words, if I dropped an .mts file on a timeline in Premiere and then exported it to AVI / NTSC DV Widescreen (or some other such setting), would this give me the same results, i.e. a native DV-AVI Type II file?
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Hi, Rod.
Good stuff, appreciate the link.
While it would be nice if I could find a suitable program to just batch convert the files, I don't seem to be having much luck on that front. It's a bit more of a workflow hassle to step it through Premiere -> Media Encoder in order to get the initial raw SD footage that I want to edit, but on the bright side it does seem to be the path of maximum control in terms of the quality of files I end up with for editing. So maybe that's the way to go.
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I have recently bought a Powermac G5 to use for editing my videos, as my Macbook 2005 is on it's last legs.
The only problem is i didn't realise how much trouble i would get myself into in terms of compatability. I need to convert AVCHD to MPEG so i can import my clips into iMovie or Final Cut.
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OliJenkins wrote:
I have recently bought a Powermac G5 to use for editing my videos, as my Macbook 2005 is on it's last legs.
The only problem is i didn't realise how much trouble i would get myself into in terms of compatability. I need to convert AVCHD to MPEG so i can import my clips into iMovie or Final Cut.
I read in another discussion that VoltaicHD would solve this problem, and does work on PowerPC Processors, but it keeps telling me it is not supported on this architecture.
Any help would be much appreciated. Cheers, Oli
Hopefully you did not pay much money for a Powermac G5...
At the end of the day, unless your time and effort has no value monetarily, you will watch endless while this ancient machine tries to transcode AVCHD video.
The time needed on even the slowest and least expensive of modern Macs (Mac Mini) will be amazing!
When my iMac G5 died, I replaced it with the 2011 Mac Mini and now I do ALL my transcoding on this machine; what a difference!
To answer the remainder of your question: what purpose do you need MPEG video for? Do you mean MPEG-2 for creation of DVDs?
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I need to convert AVCHD files into MOV in order to be able to not only open them on my computer but to have them in a format supported by FCP 7 in order to be edited.
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Hey, folks.
We're shooting with a Panasonic AG-HMC70P which saves as 1080/60i AVCHD. My target format is NTSC DVD Widescreen (16:9).
Using the MPEG2-DVD format in Media Encoder and selecting Widescreen as the pixel aspect ratio, I get very narrow vertical bars on the left and right, i.e. it's clearly widescreen and not 4:3, but it's simply not filling the complete width of the screen when converting.
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Project Audio Format: 48000 Hz - 32 bit floating point - Stereo
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Type: MPEG Movie
File Size: 10.4 MB
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Here's what I've learned thus far from Googling a bit. This seems to be a common issue, and the solution I've seen proposed (actually from a Vegas forum but the issue is the same) is to expand or crop the image. Taking that advice, I've cropped the top and bottom by 12 and it gets rid of the bars.
While this seems to work, I can't help but feel that this is a hack and that there's actually a "proper" way to deal with this. Surely we're not the only folks going from AVCHD to NTSC widescreen, so I'd be surprised if this was something that the Adobe devs simply missed.
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