The Cutting Room: Elgato Eyetv & Aimersoft Total Media Converter to Final Cut Pro X

In this episode I am looking at another more efficient method you can export files from Elgato Eyetv to then transcode them in Aimersoft TMC before importing into Final Cut Pro X. I have been experimenting this week with the best way to do this which is a time consuming and stressful process this I believe is the best way to prepare your files if you are recording and want to prepare your files for Final Cut Pro X - LT

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Recorded using the Hauppauge HD PVR
Raw footage exported with Elgato Eyetv
Editing software: Apple imove & Apple Final Cut Pro X
Microphone is the Blue Yeti condenser

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Closed Caption:

I cases Leyton here and dad's first
office on assay
my voice sounds a little bit different
that's because I was out somewhere this
evening and it was very loud
and my voice consequently has suffered
so nice out a little bit like a Barry
White and anyway
this is a social follow up video the
video I just posted this is gonna goes
well
and the previous today we're talking
about file size is exporting what you
can day between ITV in Final Cut
now since yesterday or when it was
actually made that I've done some
further experimenting I do you have
another piece of
I software here and i schooled aimersoft
Total Media Converter
it's really useful piece a kit that
allows you to convert files into other
formats
and ideal above experimenting to compare
how it work if you exported your file
in their native of all of my TV which is
very fast remember
into this software and then converted
into something he could put into final
cut
now just to give you some stats am
to export using the method I shown on
the video
just before this one that would take you
okay so what we're doing is we're
converting it to HDTV 720 P
and to export that it would take the
it was a 37 minute video it would take
about 40 minutes to export
so it takes the same time as the video
itself but the filesize you ended up
with was about 37
cake which is big okay now
take sport a raw follow in the native
format that's the age 26 for former
that's again 37 min if it does the fire
with working with
to explore that would take for minutes
alright four minutes
and the file you ended up with their in
vague in a good quality
3.6 for cake so a small
file that much smaller now the final
process is to put into this
Amos of program to get it ready to go
into final cut
and will begin it is gonna put into a
uniform I which O'Shea which Final Cut
can use
now with this okay the file size again
working with
37 minute on file but it will take you
between sixty
and ninety minutes maybe even 100
minutes to convert that file
but bear in mind that any takers for
mistakes poor the war
form a ATV saint-etienne looking
you know around assay polyps to between
60-90 minutes touchy
format it so you're looking probably
double
the formatting time it's a long time the
benefit
is the file size: you end up with would
only be about 5.4
cake so 8 tiny file compared to 37 cake
we ended up with any difference in
frustration is that
yep you may have a much longer time to
convert
but my mind for working with a much
larger file size and we'll talk a little
bit about nine some other videos facing
but for now let's just take a look at
the program a Morgan day and I'm just
gonna very very quickly say
I want obvious yet she do the exporting
process so what you do he have you
suffer he can vietnam issue all the
features
of this program so in a day to bring the
video and basically went to an
this program itself you just don't get
too far import you can know DVD's or a
farce
in tech video files new to go to have
your story it's I've got it here
this is way files are we should choose
this one FarCry
h264 up in labeling the farce I know
live export to the mass
now when I load the same here that won't
show us the
see my hair assist 2007 and intense a
basically a 2.7 cake
that's not the filesize remember of file
size:
from the raw export was 3.6 for
cake so what this is is telling us the
um
the exported size is gonna be Africa
care this is our editable options
for Sunday there with the aimersoft it's
really great to see Getafe
this it shows you all the different
formats the can choose for each Eve
common video you different common video
formats AVI mp4
m4v maybe audio files you want to
convert it to mp3
or anything like this we've got game
formats PSP so for example sometimes
I've converted to
videos to PSP Exeter and your Apple
software so hey we've got
iMovie and Final Cut and iDVD anger
Apple devices stuffy fines iPad
for universal eccentric Setra and then
extols also follows that you've recently
used you can see up in conveying mp4 you
cheap
mp3 and I'm a very so what we want
oversee to put into final cut
is the 1i have selected which is the
final cut pro
former if you click also options
this is gonna bring up a range of
options they can choose different things
hand
don't have the high definition file and
you've got the different sizes
obviously one 1280 720 that's the former
and again you can cheese
FPS right I flick a4 29.97 of 30 fps
now you can also change the file size
nine eight is that down here with any on
the kind of medium quality
it's the bitrate if you put up higher
you see the size jumps quite a lot so on
2.7 gigs if you put up to the next one
it's five
in a 5.3 and if we put up to the highest
one
again you gonna see it goes up to 8 now
you may
wonder the native funny consists it's a
fifty 9.9
fps and so on and so on but to be in a
serious see
it defame a thing every day I have found
this caused any issues what so ever
on any real noticeable difference i mean
for example compatibility she safe place
anyway
so although it might be recording in
these different frame rates and stuff
when you end up at
exporting the final version it is not
Nate's but doesn't cause
any rail affected you can really see he
call you audio settings here again you
prolly don't really wanna change up
so newt click okay
and those options assay just double
check again
you can see it so such as we wanted
and the effect on so now it's gonna
change here the filesize former
and the military are you gonna do is
click this button down here
I know start making actually process
multiple files at the same time
so few load and dry can set up tons and
clips if he had several videos that you
wanted to do for example
you would be able to process multiple
visa same time that such a shade up
with counsel that task so go back to the
video now if we get back
an import another video let's just do
this
or three-day stein other a 26-4 espy to
fill one right here
that's kinda late n and
it will also select the same settings in
the same former so do
you don't need to cheese like from the
beginning again it with cheese whatever
you have
in there and if we get options you'll
see that it's exactly the same
as the previous file so we know we're
doing the same former so you could load
up 456 files whatever
you could load up a lotta files and then
society have
you know a lot of footage recorded and
you've got prepared
to go out final cut and as a sale member
this is gonna be
the longest process the we do yet to
explore from ITV
is really short and then we go into this
this is the longest process
then we go back to find a cut the
import-export times very show in Final
Cut because of the way it works with the
media
it doesn't look the same as I'm AV so
this is all along this process
superbly why would do it so prepare for
teach I know I'm going to want to put
into Final Cut
I would do it last thing in the evening
I'd set this to convert
and its gonna go to mike foale to live
set it to converting and where the
footage is gonna go it's been exported
and then I probably go to bed I often
get my footage and stuff
and I would let show and sleep the
computer glitch cheat on the screen of
and I just leave it working so we click
this now saying
as a far cry far because we just started
doing a moment ago
irish-catholic replaced Carrie L and
again
so these two files not gonna start
exporting they can say look it says
converting a
it tries to estimate how long it's gonna
take but it will vary
as the process goes along now say when
it this for four actually took between
60 and 90 minutes
all this is a city in take 45 minutes
right now a gay cious Lost Creek
up and it changes but anyway as a sale
convert down through the list see could
have likely a different files
and M you know that's a huge file takes
between
hour and half an hour each if you have a
few files is gonna take maybe a few
hours
so you know you can set up your computer
to shut down whatever
I'm several hours later seen as can have
converted all clips in that time
when you feel safe you wake up in the
morning and all your files converted
it's such a case just editing them up
and getting ready to go so simple as a
so that's been so process and as I say I
found that this
is the most effective way to get our
files to export properly
because if you do it from ITV the amount
of time it can take
is stacked we need all remember even
more important not
file size: file size: is so important
that is the key if this process compared
to the other process
the time taken to export change also
work you can see the conversion times
Cup to 200 minutes here
now i would tell you it didn't she take
that long the
estimated time seems to be a little bit
awry
it's all seems to change over and over
they are the key was 200 nice comeback
tell to 100 minutes
so it does seem to go up and down quite
a lot as a safe for me when I did this
far it took about
eighty minutes so it's not such as long
as it's saying here
leg alec is dropping back down to ninety
now 140
I don't know why it's come to fifteen
how I don't know why cuz all over the
place but as a safe
for me I would say a rough guide for
this software
it takes about double the far side if
you got a 10-minute video it's fake take
about 20 minutes to convert but they
made last point to make remember it's
the file size that's the important thing
if you were to export raw to format
Final Cut can use its prolly gonna
you know the file size was about 37 geek
see basically looking about cake
per minute love video right with this
process
a 37 minute far which is a stop on my
hair its
5.4 cake on the kind of reasonably high
quality setting
and that quality it was absolutely good
enough to put into Final Cut
exporter up ninety cheap and the quality
was still good
had little test as well so that's the
software
I'm gonna cancel these now it's called
aimersoft Total Media Converter you can
pick enough about what was a fifty
dollars or something other
splenic of shape thirty-five forty
pounds in the UK
I was definitely worth getting if you
let you just type in a mess of tell me
to converting to Google you can refine s
of weather site
you can download from them from the
other places as well thanks watching
this one guys has been helpful
see you next time