My second week back has been exciting to say the least but in a very different way than my trip. My first priority when I got back was to get an editing program for my laptop... to you know edit my final project. I did a lot of research before and during my trip and had already decided on a program. One of the main reasons that I had chosen that program was that it had AVCHD compatibility. On a quick and confusing side note my footage is recorded digitally to a hard drive using the h.264 compression codec (a codec is the language in which data is compressed/decompressed) now I was under the impression that h.264 was the same thing as AVCHD which meant that I could just drag and drop my footage into the editor. I was wrong. AVCHD is a different codec than h.264 and is only used by Sony and Panasonic camcorders. I have a samsung camcorder so when I went to import the footage I got an error message.
So after a week of research I have solved my problem. What I have to do is open the footage with a conversion program that plays back and captures the footage in real time. This means that two seconds of footage takes two seconds to convert and two hours of footage takes two hours to convert. There is one benefit to this process though and that is organization. As I recapture the footage from a file named HDV_000304 I can cut it up into as many different files as I want and rename those "flower in sunset 1" then put that file into the "sunsets in Villa Arcadia" folder. This will save me loads of time when putting my footage into a timeline (I hope).
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Wow . .. seems like your project is teaching you more than you ever imagined it might. Although this is frustrating now, being forced to master this will open a world of creativity up to you.
I'm glad that you figured it out, finally. Did you run it by Mr. V?
I always have been excited when i find myself going from a novice to a knowledgeable is a specific subject while trying to solve a problem. My favorite brand of learning.
No he is pretty busy and my case is unique to the software and camera I am using. Luckily enough I found a person online who had the exact same problem and eventually resolved it.
However I will be meeting with him when I have my footage converted, logged and sorted for the stitching together.
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