Adobe Production Premium, UPG, Win, DVD, ESP 65055210 User Manual

Adobe CS5 Production Premium

 Panasonic AVCCAM

There are a number of ways to access AVCHD data with a computer.

Reading AVCHD On SD Cards Directly
The quickest path to working with AVCHD footage would be to read the data directly from the SD 
card – this can allow you to edit your footage literally seconds after shooting, with no waiting for 
capture or transcoding.  The footage is ready to edit as soon as it is recorded.

As the SD card is a mass storage device, it can be read directly by either Windows or the Mac OS.  
Various options exist to connect an SD card directly to a system.  Many computers have internal SD 
card readers or may accept external readers via USB or 1394.  The AVCCAM camcorder itself can be 
used as a card reader when connected to the computer. Likewise, the AG-HMR10 handheld recorder 
can be used as a card reader.

Using any of these methods, Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 can read, import, and edit the footage on the 
cards exactly as if it were stored on a hard disk drive.

AVCHD footage may also be offloaded to hard disk drive and accessed by by Production Premium 
applications as any other files.  

Files may be transferred directly from the card to an internal or external hard drive using any of the 
methods above to connect the card to a computer, and then using the computer’s operating system 
to transfer the files.  You may transfer the footage simply by copying the PRIVATE folder to your 
desired location.

Direct access of AVCHD data is the same whether you read from the SD card or from a hard disk 
or other storage device – you use Windows Explorer or Mac Finder to navigate to the drive, and 
then to the specific volume, where you can access any of the data in the AVCHD PRIVATE folder or 
subfolders.  You are now ready to import the AVCHD data into a CS5 application.

Part 2:  Working In Adobe Premiere Pro

When opening Adobe Premiere Pro, you will be asked to create a new project, or open an existing 
project.  If you create a new project, you will then be asked to create a sequence.

It is not necessary to create a sequence before entering Adobe Premiere Pro.  It is, however, 
necessary to create a sequence before you can begin work, so it is recommended that you create a 
sequence at this time.  

You may create multiple sequences with any settings and group them together into a single 
sequence of any settings.  So, you may work in one sequence with settings for 720p and in another 
with settings for 1080i -- even at different frame rates -- but you may nest either sequence into the 
other, or you may nest them both into a third sequence of even different settings.  How close to real-
time playback you are able to achieve will depend upon your system hardware.

If you do not create a sequence when opening the project, you can create one by pressing 
Control+N (Windows) or Command+N (Mac), or by right-clicking, or Control+clicking (Mac), in 
the Project panel and choosing “New Item>sequence.”  You will then be given options for project 
presets; groups of presets will appear in the “Available Presets” box of the “New sequence” panel, 
represented as file folders.

Sequence Settings
For AVCHD material, there are a number of preset options found in the AVCHD folder.  Your best 
option is to choose a sequence setting which fits most, if not all, of the footage you will be using in 
the project.

1080i/p --  for any footage, the project preset should be chosen according to the frame rate of the 
footage, including whether the footage is progressive or interlaced.  In the AVCHD folder, there are 
subfolders labeled “1080i” and 1080p” containing the 1080 presets.

  

AVCCAM cameras offer several 

Note:  for optimal performance, it is 

recommended to store the AVCHD 

data on hard drives in a striped 

RAID, allowing for increased transfer 

speeds, very useful for better 

playback performance of multiple 

streams and clips with added effects.