I NEED HELP...I am new to FCPX and I can NOT get my AVCHD files on HD to import to FCPX

Question

I know this has prob been covered a million times BUT I cant find the answer or solution. I am new to FCPX and I shoot video on canon xa10 using internal HD...When I go to import into FCPX the files are empty?? Why?? I can see the files on my HD but the import window only shows the name of the file and no footage to import..WHAT AM I DOING WRONG?? Tell me I did not pay $300.00 for an editing prog that I cant use..And please be gental, like I said im new to editing side.

Answer 1

Bowjunky9 wrote:
… I added this footage to my HD weeks ago to make room the the camera HD for more footage. What do you mean it needs wrap?
AVCHD is no 'format' but a specific folder-structure.
to allow FCPX to import from there, this COMPLETE files&folders structure has to be intact.
'cause people ignored that, since MacOS 10.8. this folder strucuture is hidden in a pkg-file, which looks like that:
this 'Private' thing is actually a folder, containing folders, containing ....
my screenshot shows a backup or 'archive' of one of my recordings, on an extHDD, inside a folder.
to import such a camera-backup, I choose Import File in FCPX and click down to my backup, 'til this structure gets visible.
in case for whatever reason you have NOT copied the whole SDcards content, it looks like this:
these are the actual 'videos' inside the AVCHD structure (notice the loooong way to it in the breadcrumb down below)
mts is no video-codec, but a 'wrapper' or media-container - inside are the h264 encoded videos. to allow FCPX to import such files, they needed to be re-wrapped from mts>>mov (NOT converted!)
there are commercial solutions such as ClipWrap, or the free reMux tool
http://www.nef.wh.uni-dortmund.de/~mt/remux/