No audio in AVCHD clip?

Hello, my camera is a Panasonic HC-V720 and it records in AVCHD format. The audio plays in windows media player. It is 2 channel audio. But whenever i import the video into after effects and place the clip into a composition the audio component is missing and there is no waveform at all. I dont know what is wrong with my after effects. I have after effects CC and it worked fine up until last month. I cant get it to work please help!

Thanks for your tip, jukkatilli, it helped me solve this problem both in After Effects and Premiere Pro.
By the way, for some reason it seems to work just fine if you just rename the video file on the hard drive from *.mts to *.mpg (change the file extension). Just rename it, then relink the file in your project to the "new" renamed file. Just to clarify that it may not be necessary to change the format of the video file itself, just changing the filename should work just fine.
The same solution worked for some .mp4-files that were causing the same problem in my case as well, changing the file extension to .mpg solved the problem.

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Hi,
My video camera produces .mts files - avchd.
Wanting a good editor I downloaded a Trial version of Premiere Pro CC , BUT no matter
what I tried - including many suggestions from on line users- could not get audio with any
of my clips. Prelude was able to "ingest" the clips with audio BUT whenever I exported them to PP
they were unrecognizable by PP.
Cannot seem to get any definite answer from any authority in Adobe. Is this problem insoluble?
I would like to buy into PP CC but not if it cannot handle the files my Panasonic camcorder produces
whats the point? Also transcoding .mts files into another format ( which works with PP ! ) reduces the
quality and is not acceptable.
Anybody know the answer?
( Win 7 (64) ; Intel i7 920 )

Audio is at times the bane of the video editing side of things. There's been holy Hades raised here at times over the way PrPro does ... or really, doesn't ... handle "extended" audio channels as they would seem to be logically best handled. And the comments that some other programs handle X part of this easier. At which point there's oft a comment that yea, that be the case but that other program handles Y part of the audio process like a truly crashed turkey.
It seems to me the point is that perhaps none of the editing apps are where they should be for treating the audio part as seriously as the video. There've been comments and blogs from Adobe that this is why they have Audition, to handle all the audio stuff. But to many of us the way that Audition & PrPro work is not as "transparent" as we need it to be. Audition normally overwrites original files unless you purposely save-as. PrPro never over-writes original footage files. A few people have been caught by trying something in Audition ... without save-as-ing, and unfortunately without proper back-up, and ruined their audio. With no way back. Unfortunate, but in the differences in the two program's methodology, this is bound to happen at some time to almost anyone. "You should have known what you were doing before you did it" ... yea, true ... but in a hurry under deadlines, well ... baaaad things happen. Especially when one gets used to a HUGE "feature" of the Adobe video apps: non-destructive editing. Oh, sorry, Audition is a wee bit different. People need to know that!
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I have a problem with avcdh-clips. They had been imported porperly, so that I allready have worked with them.
Today I opended the project, and all the MTS-Files were offline. I tried to relink them - and was warned, that they´ll come with no audio. Which they actually don´t have anymore. I tried to relink the same clips from the backup-disk. Same result. I tested the avchd-clips with prelude and QT-Player - they do have audio.
Also if I import them fresh in PrP, they are just fine with audio.
But with the relinking it just doesn´t work.
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I just reloaded a project from a client to do some adjustments. all files are AVCHD put in 3 different folders. "Media/Footage/Card1/Private (Card2/Private)... you get it.
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