So I just bought and installed Avid Media Composer 7 for mac and am now importing mt2-files from my HD of a total of 10gb, shot on a Sony Z7-camera. Settings are just the same as the way I filmed it, as far as I know: 1080i/25 (no problem if it was recorded in 50 right? Does this have to do anything with progressive/interlaced-settings? I know nothing!).
Importing just one clip as a test went fine (only 10 sec.) but the rest of the files is now already taking 2 hours and the blue bar has been full ever since it began and is not giving me any information. It seems as if it's loading the same clip the whole time. I have no idea what to do and hope I'm not wasting my time.
I also don't know what these AMA-files everyone's talking about are exactly but as I understood these really compromise on the quality of your material and have a lot less options. Thus it's not the real thing. Feel free to explain to me one and another. I'm hopeless but I have movies to make here!