Missing MTS files?

I am a new user of Premier Elements. My first project is to create a sports highight video and I think I have just lost a season's worth of work.
I am using Premier Elements 11. My process is to 1) "Drop" a video into a PE Project; 2) Trim the video to shorten the clip for the 7-10 seconds of action; 3) Repeat with the next video. However, in an effort to free disk space, I just deleted all the origninal large video files. Now Premier Elements is asking me where are MTS files and the trimmed clips are missing from the project. Does PE require the retention of the original video files? Any sugguestions on what to do? My original video files are now unrecoverable.

Until you actually export (share is the current term) your timeline to a new video file, Premiere Elements (and Premiere Pro) are "non-destructive" editors, in that your project only consists of "pointers" to what you want to do inside the original file... the original file is not touched in any way AND the original file IS required
So... since you deleted the original files, your project "pointers" are pointing to files that do not exist
Sadly, you have just learned a hard lesson... do not delete/move video files until you are 100% done with your project
>new user of Premier Elements
Online User Guide http://help.adobe.com/en_US/premiereelements/using/index.html
-Page to download current PDF http://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-elements.html
Importing Video http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1065281
-and project settings http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1112086
Saving & Sharing http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1137128
-Sharing to DVD or BluRay http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1137645
-Sharing for Movies http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1051093
-Sharing for Computer http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1058237
Steve's Basic Training Tutorials... steps are the same for several versions
-http://forums.adobe.com/thread/537685
-v11 http://www.amazon.com/Muvipix-Guide-Premiere-Elements-version/dp/1479311200/
-All http://www.amazon.com/Tricks-Adobe-Premiere-Elements-Muvipix-com/dp/1451529724/
-and http://forums.adobe.com/thread/498626
-and http://prodesigntools.com/four-hours-free-video-tutorials-new-photoshop-elements-9-pse9.ht ml
-and http://prodesigntools.com/five-hours-free-tutorials-photoshop-and-premiere-elements-7-and- 8.html
FAQ http://forums.adobe.com/community/premiere_elements/premiere_elements_faq
TIPS http://forums.adobe.com/community/premiere_elements/premiere_elements_tips
Another help site http://muvipix.com/ or http://muvipix.com/phpBB3/

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A similar problem here..... although......
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Metadata contained in folder http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1015001?tstart=0
-and http://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/transferring-importing-files.html
-http://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/importing-assets-tapeless-formats.html

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That worked, thanks!
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I have some files from a friends camera that I need to edit in.. I have them on a USB stick in MTS format only. I have been able to convert them using handbrake to a m4v file. Should I use them as this or convert to .mov file using MPEG streamclip for FCE?
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I have them on a USB stick in MTS format only.
It will help a lot if you tell us the exact make/model camcorder your friend used.
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