A typical project is created from a collection of .mts .mp4 and .jpg files.
One group of clips was taken inside The Spinnaker Tower in Portsmouth who have kindly installed heat reflecting glass to keep visitors from frying! However this imparts a green tinge to all photos and videos which I found unattractive.
I momentarily envisaged tweaking each clip/image by hand to my liking (there are over 50 of them) then realised CLUTS may provide the answer to counteract the same green tinge from every item.
Not finding any ideal CLUT I found an article that demonstrated how Davinci Resolve (free) could do the job of creating CLUTs from scratch then saving them in a format compatable with PD16. It did and it was and so far all is fine.
MP4 AVCHD and JPG all produced very acceptable results when CLUTed - as seen in the Editor preview.
Problem only surfaced when I Produced. The MP4 bits came through fine as did the JPGs, but the mts(AVCHD) bits were a disaster and looked vary much like the 1st frame was repeated every other frame which is the only way I can describe the mess. I am Producing to MP4 just as I always do.
I then went through the following sequence of tests to see what I could understand further.
1. Load (to timeline) one mp4 and one avchd - produce - both fine
2. apply CLUT to both - produce - mp4 part good - avchd part bad
3. unCLUT both - produce - both fine
4. Produce just the avchd clip as mp4
5. Use mp4 and converted from avchd clip - both fine
6. apply CLUT to both - produce - both fine.
So the AVCHD does not like CLUT - looks ok in editor and only goes bad when Produced.
Q1. is there a fundamental issue with CLUTs and AVCHD?
Q2. is my only solution to go through every individual mts and convert to mp4 before loading and editing?
Q3. are there any other thoughts I have not asked?
Look forward to your thoughts.....