AVCHD -> AIC .mov -> lossless into Win Premiere CS3?

[Rand HOPPE]

A pal and I recently shot the same event with our brand new Sony SDR-HDxxs, and I have files from both.

My pal has a mac and provided me with a .mov with Apple Intermediate Codec encoding. I've got the .m2ts file from my camera.

Genius dismember Soopafresh, in the AVCHD to Anything Using DGAVCdec thread, generously helped me and now I can wrestle my .m2ts to a point where I can happily bring a lossless .avi and .wavs into Premiere CS3 on my XP machine.

Now I need help with the darn .mov to bring that into Win Premiere CS3, in as close to the same format as possible. It appears the first step must be on my g4 ibook, because of the AIC. I have been trying things with ffmpegx and Quicktime Pro, but haven't been completely satisfied with the results - thus this post.

Any ideas or suggestions?

Thanks,

- Rand

[Rand HOPPE]

Would mencoder with huffyuv from a terminal command line be a way to go? I found a reference to that here. I just don't have the knowledge to create the appropriate mencoder commands, so some help there would be good, if that's a good place to start.

[machina_sp]

Hi Rand,
I had the same problem as well before as you have noticed. (https://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?p=1845433#1845433)
So I decided to use PC and did what soopafresh told me to convert it to lossless format.

If you really want to convert from AIC to a format that readable by Premier CS3...
What I did before was; after importing it with iMovie08 to AIC, I used to use a program called "Compressor" in Final Cut Studio 2 and convert them to MPEG2-Program Stream. and that solved my problem.
The only thing i asked this forum was because i didn't like my Macbook Pro to convert hundreds of gigs to a format that isn't as good as the lossless (HuffYuv or Lagarith)

I know i'm lucky enough to have that Final Cut Studio 2 - "Compressor"...
Well if you have one, go ahead and give it a try.
But if you don't, you might want to do what I did in the previous forum https://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?p=1845433#1845433

Goodluck,


-=machina=-
the machine of God

[Rand HOPPE]

Thanks machina, but didn't you did have to accept some loss on the mac side with the MPEG2-Program Stream encoding using compressor? I'm somewhat new to all this, and am surprised to find that there doesn't appear to be any way to convert/transcode/whatever this razzin frazzin file on the mac side using a modern lossless compression scheme. There's another thread where ArthurDaley is talking about this limitation of the mac, too.

It looks like Perian brings huffyuv DEcoding to QT, but ENcoding is not apparent to me. I did find a reference to huffyuv encoding with mencoder on the mac. Problem is, I run the command to see what codecs are available to mencoder and huffyuv doesn't show up.

Yes, I'm clueless. Please help. Anyone.

[Rand HOPPE]

Ok, huffyuv is part of libavcodec, so that's a little help, I suppose.

[Rand HOPPE]

No clues, pointers, suggestions to "give it up, that ain't gonna happen"?