As I mentioned in my previous post AVCHD is a bit of a difficult format although Final Cut Pro makes it easy to use this format, I am going to give you every step you need to use AVCHD efficiently.
- Connect Memory Card or Camera to Computer
- Copy THE ENTIRE CARD as a backup leave the folder structure completely intact. This is incase you need to recapture footage which can only be done if the card hierarchy needs to remain perfectly intact.
- Open Final Cut Pro
- Set Scratch Disks to where you want video to be captured to
- File —–> Log and Transfer
- Select Clip and give name, set in and out point and input other metadata
- Click Add Clip to Queue
- Repeat for other clips
- Edit your video
- Copy final project file and scratch files to your archive location if you want to re-edit later
