This worked well on my XP machine. I was going to SD, so had to do another pass in Squeeze to downconvert them - but if you want to stay in HD it's a one step process.

Question to AndrewAction: Just trying to clarify - are you saying you're always seeing frame issues with AVCHD to SD using TMPGEnc, or specifically only with 1080 23.976? Or to put it another way, have you successfully transferred other AVCHD variants (like 1080i 25) to SD PAL with TMPGEnc? Laboured question I know, but I'm mainly interested

I can't get Sorenson 5 to recognize the AVCHD from a Sony lipstick camera we're using on a current show. It simply says "This filetype not supported." I'm currently trying to wrestle MediaCoder into doing it - there's an article here: http://blog.mediacoderhq.com/how-to-convert-avchd-with-mediacoder/ ...but it's also defying

Yep - this costs me two hours on every show I online. The video mixdown check is the quickest and easiest, although the TC burnin option is the most accurate (although many producers and offline editors loathe having TV burnt in on offline rushes.) There is a rackmount unit called the Timecode Watchdog which is meant to fix it, but I've never been

Avid Pan & Zoom only works on stills - Can't speak for Boris. When I need to do this, I import the HD footage into an SD After Effects project and move around it using Scale and Position in AFX.

Yes - your media files and your projects are both required in order to be able to use an old project again. The files that MDV copies are only the media files. If your client is taking the external drive, you might want to copy the project you were working on to this drive as well. I back up my project files to an external drive nightly. It's usually

Yes that's right - but Haukez's post suggested he had then imported the resulting aiff files having located them in the OMFI MediaFiles folder - this process would normally then create a connection that could be utilized by Batch Import. Sadly - it seems that is not the case....

I'm not sure if this will help, but have you tried Batch Import? In my experience Avid will only recognise two methods of restoring media, and this is by capturing (using TC, which obviously you can't do) or importing. Of course this all falls down if there's no existing connection between the sequence you're editing and the clips you

There is a green line issue with PAL capture via SDI on DX hardware when using MC3, but I hadn't heard of the same issue for DV. Are you capturing via SDI.

If you're up for some programming AutoHotkey might get the job done. I've got an article here about programming some macro keys for Avid, but AutoHotKey is able to do far more than this.