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Q: Aperture support for AVCHD?

I imagine aperture supports video as well as photo files.  But for some reason I cannot get Aperture to recognise my video files from my Sony 5n shot in AVCHD.  Is there a particular way to import these files?

 

Thanks

Macpro, Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Posted on Feb 23, 2012 6:19 PM

by Frank Caggiano,Solvedanswer
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Here is a list of Aperture supported  formats Aperture 3: About Video and Audio formats in Aperture

 

AVCHD is not included. There a few web sites that discuss this AVCHD movies in Aperture is one of them. MIght give you some ideas.

 

regards

Posted on Feb 23, 2012 6:29 PM

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  • by Frank Caggiano,Solvedanswer

    Frank Caggiano Frank Caggiano Feb 23, 2012 6:29 PM in response to pockl
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    Feb 23, 2012 6:29 PM in response to pockl

    Here is a list of Aperture supported  formats Aperture 3: About Video and Audio formats in Aperture

     

    AVCHD is not included. There a few web sites that discuss this AVCHD movies in Aperture is one of them. MIght give you some ideas.

     

    regards

  • by pockl,Helpful

    pockl pockl Feb 23, 2012 6:44 PM in response to Frank Caggiano
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    Feb 23, 2012 6:44 PM in response to Frank Caggiano

    Thanks!  It was nice to know that I was not doing anything wrong.  AVCHD has been around for awhile now.  Do you know or think Aperture will ever support this format.  It seems like a fairly common format.

  • by Terence Devlin,Helpful

    Terence Devlin Terence Devlin Feb 24, 2012 1:09 AM in response to pockl
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    Feb 24, 2012 1:09 AM in response to pockl

    AVCHD is a very compressed HD quality video format. It's designed for creating material to be edited and then the edited version to be exported to a more usable format.

     

    In Video it's common to think in terms of Production and Delivery formats. Production Formats are massive because video creates huge amounts of data. (For instance, an hour of miniDV - a compressed standard def format - will use about 13 gigs of disk space.)  But Production formats are editable at high quality. So the practise is to shoot in production format, then edit, then export the edit to a compressed format like mov, mp4, avi etc. These Delivery formats are excellent quality for viewing, have (relatively) small file sizes but are not good for editing as they are lossy and heavily compressed..

     

    So, if you're not shooting to edit use the other video format on your camera - mov, avi - and if you are shooting to edit, bring the material into your editor - FCP, iMovie - and add the finished product to Aperture.

     

    It's broadly analagous to shooting in Raw, processing and then outputting to Jpeg...

     

    Regards

     

     

    TD

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    pockl pockl Feb 27, 2012 6:29 PM in response to Terence Devlin
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    Feb 27, 2012 6:29 PM in response to Terence Devlin

    Thanks for the info TD