After months of staring wistfully from outside camera stores, I finally went ahead and bought the Canon Vixia HF10 (uhuh, High Def). Shooting has been a somewhat humbling experience but I’ll get there. Sooner or later.
Moving files around has been a tad tricky so I thought I’d document (sort of) what I did.
Linux:
If the device doesn’t mount, try ‘dmesg‘
# mkdir /camera
#mount /dev/sdb1 /camera
#cd /camera
MPlayer supports AVCHD (.mts) files, but you’ll need to compile MPlayer (http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html) from source.
Windows:
Couldn’t install the proprietary software that comes with the camera because my netbook doesn’t support the minimumm resolution. So I had to convert the .mts files to .avi.
First, install the AVISynth base and then this (mts_2_xvid.rar) . Unpack the .rar file and copy the .mts files from the camera into the folder and run the batch file _multi_demux_mts_Xvid.bat. That nifty little piece of code compresses the video to .avi and saves it in the same folder.
Trust me, it’s way simpler than it sounds.
