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Hi
I have tried everything but admit to being stumped now. Problems are as follows:
About 3 months ago I saved a large number of .MTS files from my Panasonic HDC-SD1 high def camcorder. They loaded into FCE4 fine and I could log and transfer them all. I was not in a position to edit at the time so they have been sat on my hard disk. Today I tried to load them and FCE4 just says that it doesn't recognise them. I know I have loaded them before as I have edited one quick snippet and put it on my web page but now FCE (or iMovie08 or iMovie06 ) refuse to load the files. Is there an update that has screwed up the use of Panasonic MTS files? This is causing me a real problem as I can't find any way to load and edit them.
I was also trying to export a 16:9 DV film I have edited on FCE4 to use on apple tv via the default export option (this also worked 2 months ago) but now it exports via itunes as 4:3 instead of 16:9. Finder says it is 16:9, itunes imports as 4:3. All very frustrating.
Anyone any ideas?
Thanks
Robbie

Bonjour Michel
thanks for the post. I followed the link you suggested. I erased all the current files and re-copied the entire disk to my external drive. However, even with all the directory structure in place the FCE program fails to open them when I get to the MTS folder ... then it dawned on me to browse at the top level (the equivalent of the disk itself) and hey presto it works. Not intuitive but now that I have realised what to do the rest should be fine.
Thank you very much for your help.
Now if only I could re-create the structure of the ones from Feb (as the file info .cpi information has gone and I only have the .mts files) ... and the 4:3 in itunes ... still one step at a time.
Merci beaucoup
Robbie

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