i'm shooting hdv, 720p, 24p on a jvc hd100 to a dr-hd100 firestore.  i'm capturing the files as m2ts and get the resulting sync drift when i import those files directly into avid.

i've used cineform in the past to 'transcode' the m2ts to usable m2ts for import, but others (cuervo) have said that procoder 3 is 'very, very fast' and i haven't been able to replicate these fast results.

the quickest i can get procoder to transcode these files is at 50% realtime.  i can do realtime w/ cineform.  i'm using procoder's HDV1 setting w/ high speed selected. 

can someone fill me in on this?  is 50% realtime the best procoder's going to do?  my workstation wasn't bought yesterday, but it's an HP8200 w/ dual xeon's (3.2).  if people are getting significantly faster transcodes, i would think it was something i was doing wrong and not my machine.

thanks for the help, strimps

cuervo?  anybody?

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The trick is to set the output file with exactly the same parameters as the input file. Then the Procoder just rewraps them and corrects discrepancies in transport stream. Otherwise the Procoder enodes the new MPEG and your resulting files are the second generation, which is in HDV format quality critical. We fix this way transport streams captured from tapes where dropouts damaged the data so the MC (or even another NLE) refuses to import or play them.

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