Converting AVCHD to AIC or MOV on a PowerPC G5 - workflow issues

4. You could try VoltaicHD option as well. http://shedworx.com/voltaichd

5. Toast 10 - will do conversions and many, many other things. Often buggy, but there are almost always work-arounds. Many of the bugs are unimportant to many users, it does some things, for example, that I'll never use.

Your options: 1- Great option, obvious costs associated with it
2- Not very nice to interlaced material which your AVCHD would probably be, easy
3- Don't know

FCE uses AIC codec. .mov is a file structure and can be aic or h.264 in QT/FCE.

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"QuickTime file format - Wikipedia excerpt:

The QuickTime (.mov) file format functions as a multimedia container file that contains one or more tracks, each of which stores a particular type of data: audio, video, effects, or text (e.g. for subtitles). Each track either contains a digitally-encoded media stream (using a specific codec) or a data reference to the media stream located in another file. Tracks are maintained in a hierarchal data structure consisting of objects called atoms. An atom can be a parent to other atoms or it can contain media or edit data, but it cannot do both."

The codecs can be AIC, h.264...

Another words, .mov is a container, the codecs are a payload, so that different streams can be still inside .mov file.

Sorry, I meant to say the streams or information about the streams are the payload. Of course not the codecs themselves.

Can I add an additional question. I too have MTS files I can't use directly in FCP as I am running a Power PC G5. Apart from VoltaiHD is there any other solution?

iMovie: I have never used this. Is it possible to ingest and then export to FCP or does it all become a nasty mess?

HDMI video card: I spotted a Black Magic one the other day. Could I use one of these to play footage in directly to FCP?

Many thanks.
Dame Hyndman

This is the Final Cut Express forum. You should try Pro.

yes sorry spotted that after I posted