Workflow mts file to resolve

hi
I have a panasonic tm700 and I want to export my work into davinci resolve to colour correct.
i have a pc with lots of power but i'm trying to figure out workflow to export the files into Resolve? do I need a transcoder program?
thanks
sorry if this has been brought up before. I tried searching for it but couldn't find anything.
thanks

If you want to rewrap MTS files on Windows, without transcoding (like with Clipwrap), you can do that with FFMBC (for example). Yes, you can than reconect original files to rewrapped H264 MP4 and new Resolve will be able to read your timeline. However performance will be far from good.
Actually there is no perfect workflow for Premiere > Resolve roundtripping for MTS files at this moment:
- You can transcode everything to DNxHD or Prores before editing, but that's waste of time and disk space
- With combination of AE scripts you can transcode only material used in edit, but again that's waste of time, and you'll have to rebuild your timeline manualy
One option in Premiere Project Manager would solve all issues with roundtripping and that's "Create new trimmed project and TRANSCODE media with handles". That way you would be able to edit native, and transcode only media used in timeline.
At this moment your best option is to transcode everything before edit. On Windows use DNxHD, pick bitrate according to your source footage, and everything will be fine.

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.MTS File Metadata Workflow?

I have a client who needs to be able to search through a huge number of video clips via keywords in metadata but i've hit a huge wall when it comes to .mts files.
I am unable to write any metadata to these files, i'm seeing various reasons as to why this is the case, but no solution.
Spoke to three people at Adobe chat support this morning and no-one can help.
Is there any workflow in the Adobe Suite that allows metadata/keywords to be added to .mts files that can then be searched in Bridge or Lightroom for instance?
I have a keyword hierarchy produced that was intended to be used for tagging in Lightroom, I cannot assign the keywords to the original files but is it possible to create a Catalog that can then be handed over to the client with a copy of the video files so that they are searchable within the Lightroom software?
I have been trying to achieve anything similar in Prelude but still no success.
Am I the only one having this problem?

If you want to rewrap MTS files on Windows, without transcoding (like with Clipwrap), you can do that with FFMBC (for example). Yes, you can than reconect original files to rewrapped H264 MP4 and new Resolve will be able to read your timeline. However performance will be far from good.
Actually there is no perfect workflow for Premiere > Resolve roundtripping for MTS files at this moment:
- You can transcode everything to DNxHD or Prores before editing, but that's waste of time and disk space
- With combination of AE scripts you can transcode only material used in edit, but again that's waste of time, and you'll have to rebuild your timeline manualy
One option in Premiere Project Manager would solve all issues with roundtripping and that's "Create new trimmed project and TRANSCODE media with handles". That way you would be able to edit native, and transcode only media used in timeline.
At this moment your best option is to transcode everything before edit. On Windows use DNxHD, pick bitrate according to your source footage, and everything will be fine.

Should I delete all my .MTS files? Help with workflow desperately needed

I use a Sony NEX 6 to film a lot of personal projects. My workflow has so far been
Film Import to lightroom Export as H.264 to hardrive Import to iMovie
But now I am going to start using final cut pro x. Apparently Final Cut X is unable to import .MTS files so again, workflow at the moment is
Film Import to lightroom Export as H.264 Import to Final Cut Pro X and convert to ProRes
My hardrive has quickly filled up and I've realised that I stupidly have my footage saved in 3 different locations. Lightrooms catalogue (.MTS), the file on my hardrive that I export the footage from lightroom to (export as H.264 but file type says it's mp4?) and Final Cut Pro's catalogue (ProRes).
I want a system where my footage is saved in one place on my laptops hardrive, then I will back my computer up with an external hardrive.
How does this workflow sound?
Film Import to lightroom Export as H.264 Import to Final Cut Pro X Delete footage from lightroom Delete exported file on computer Backup laptop on external hardrive
Can anyone suggest a better workflow?
Will I come across any problems in the future by deleting everything except the ProRes files?
Is lightroom a good enough program to be exporting my footage from or should I use a dedicated converter?

Thank you for your help, yes I will be backing up elsewhere. I'm a massive noob at all this and after an afternoon of searching I think I've got my head around it. Best option for future footage
Import AVCHD directly from camera into Final Cut Pro. Convert it to ProRes if I have the space or if I'm not happy with the speed of working with native footage.
For all the footage that I have in lightroom but no longer have on a memory card my plan is to
Rewrap the files (I'm using a trial of clipwrap which changes the .MTS to .MOV).
Import the .Mov files into FCP, transfer file into FCP catalogue
Delete the movies from lightroom and the lightroom catalogue

MTS Files and workflow

Hi,
I'm a recreational user of Final Cut Pro. I've recently bought a new cam corder and wish to get the most from my footage in terms of quality and the best from my system.
Panasonic TM700
Mac Book Pro 2.5ghz running Snow Leopard
Nvidia GeForce 9600M GT 512mb
FCP 6.0.6
I currently store all media on a network drive (QNAP Nas with Samsung Spinpoint F1 SATA-300 - 7200 rpm). The current network is wireless so I find I need to transfer files to the local drive or an external hard drive and connect to the MBP by Firewire.
So with the new Camcorder - What is the best way to import the files into FCP? I have tried using the log and transfer function, but this imports files that are 10x the original size. I tried Clipwrap2, but again this still adds another 15-20% on the file size (which I find strange going by the description of what clipwrap does).
Has anyone had experience of MTS files and found a good workflow for importing, storing and editing?
Thanks
Zig

You will need ClipWrap2. It will be able to make sense of the mts files.
The recommended workflow goes something like this:
1. copy the ENTIRE contents of the flash media to a folder on your hard drive.
2. make a backup copy to a second (archive) hard drive
3a. Convert the files. If you have recorded files that are not natively supported or have screwed up the moving of the files from the cards to the hard drive, use the appropriate transcoding software. Then import the files into FCP.
3b. If you have recorded a format that is natively supported in FCP, importing the files will be done using Log and Transfer.
4. Edit and be happy.
Regards,

Premiere CS 6 workflow for MTS files

Dear All, I am just shifting to Premiere from FCP 7 so I'm a real beginner.
I am importing avchd files from a camcorder's hd. The camcorder generates all sorts of folders. Is it sufficient to save the "STREAM" folder in order to have all the necessary meta data or do I need any of the other folders/files?
More important question: The camcorder names the MTS files with numbers (see below). When I delete the videos from the camcorder's HD and start filming with an empty hard drive, the camcorder will assign identical names to the new video files. This means that I will import clips with identical names into Premiere. Will Premiere be able to differentiate between the files with same names? What is the best way to keep an order within my project (window).
All suggestions are welcome. Many greetings Schorsch

your not gaining the full value from the color in your video. You loose White Balance and other qualities from your vector scope from using raw files instead of transcoding them.
[comment removed by moderator] Start here, then you'll probably understand why [not].
Always and i mean ALWAYS transcode your footage off the chip.
Never, and I mean NEVER, transcode your source footages for the sake of transcoding. Transcoding may help if your machine is underpowered or you're going to do a compositing work and, hence, more power is required to decode several highly compressed footages on the fly.
Do your self a favor, take a raw .mts file and a pro res 422 file side by side in scope and look at the difference.
Do yourself a favour, transcode a source footage into any 4:4:4 production codec, import both footages into After Effects, set project to 32-bit and linearise working space for higher precision while blending. Drop source and transcoded footages into the same composition and set Blending Mode to Difference. If there are some super-whites in the source footage, they will be clipped, and you'l see some artefacts there. If not, you'll see an almost pure black solid, which means there is no mathematical difference in pixels values.
With 4:2:2 transcoding you'll see more artefacts, which means you get less precise data in your intermediate.
Is it sufficient to save the "STREAM" folder in order to have all the necessary meta data or do I need any of the other folders/files?
No, metadata are not contained in the STREAM folder. Copying the STREAM folder only may be sufficient for editing short AVCHD clips, but for spanned AVCHD clips you have to copy the entire folders structure on your HDD.
Will Premiere be able to differentiate between the files with same names? What is the best way to keep an order within my project (window)?
You need to properly organise files on your HDD as well as imported clips inside PrPro project. You can create e.g. CAMERA_1_SCENE_01, CAMERA_1_SCENE_02 folders on your HDD and respective bins in PrPro project.

I am using MTS files. They load in PE fine. The problem is when I try to play them, I just get audio and no video. I have installed the latest updates. Is there a CODEX that I need.

I have windows 8.1. I have downloaded the mts files from my video camera onto my hard drive. I have loaded a subset of these mts files into premier elements and they show up fine. I can bring them to the time line without a problem. The issue is that when I click on them, I only get the audio and no video. Normally when you click a thumbnail, the picture shows in the large screen. That screen remains blank.

John - thanks for your response
1. Graphics Adapter: Nvidia GeForce GTX 650
2. My driver before you response was 3/4/14   9.18.13.3523. I went to Nvidia and downloaded and installed latest driver 7/2/14 9.18.13.4052
3. Rebooted and checked APE and no change in the problem. Still doesn't show video when I double click an thumbnail or if I single click it does not show a video image in the large screen.
4. Some things I have done to try to resolve the problem.
     a. Searched this forum for a similar problem. I didn't see one.
     b. Did a web search to see if I could find a solution outside this forum
     c Went into "edit" and tried some changes in project preferences and setting to see if that would make a difference
     d. Tried to contact Adobe support to speak to a person but that seemed difficult and could never figure out how to do it.
5. I have always loaded AVI clips into this program and this is the first time I have tried MTS files. When I opened the new project, the program notified that I had to change something??? to load an MTS file and asked me if I wanted the program to do this for me. I said yes and here I am.   I seem so close to making it work.   Thanks

What are the best settings to convert .mts files to Prores

Hi friends,
Trying to figure out some settings. I am a novice editor so please forgive lame terminology in advance:
I have footage shot on a Canon Vixia HF M500. I am editing in Premiere Pro CC on a MAC with OS 10 Mavericks. I tried editing directly from the .mts files, but it doesn't scroll through footage well unless I render. Also if I add any effects like a fade in, etc it wants me to render the entire clip. I think my best workflow will be to convert the files to Prores prior to editing. I generally output all of my masters as Prores anyway so it seems like the logical choice.
What I can't figure out is which settings to use. I'm converting using Adobe Prelude CC (which then uses Adobe Media Encoder CC). I installed a group of Prores presets and my four main choices are:
1080i, 29.97
1080p, 29.97
1080i, 23.97
1080p, 23.97
The camera itself has three settings 30p, 24p, and 60i. The 24p and 60i are both interlaced (even though 24p shouldn't be) so I use 30p. I'm pretty sure the correct setting for me to transcode to is 1980p, 29.97 but not sure how to determine that. When I look at the .mts files in Premiere it tells me they are 29.97. Do I have to match that when I transcode? Not sure how to know whether they are 1080i or 1080p. I'm hoping it's 1080p because working with interlaced footage is a major drag. Also, does it even matter? If it's transcoding anyway, can I just pick whatever setting I want and that becomes the new normal.
Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Thanks for the response Johnathan. I noitced that videos converted using the iPad preset did look ok on the mini, I was just curious if having more bespoke settings would create videos that would maximise the smaller screen real estate???

AVCHD: how to deal with the .MTS files in FCP 5 or iMovie 08

I just bought a Canon HF10 AVCHD camcorder and stumbles into the difficult editing process with FCP 5. Here are my steps:
- Conversion of the camcorder .MTS files with iMovie 8; they are then transformed into a .MOV sequence. A 14secondes sequence recorded in the highest quality (FXP, 17Mbps) is captured as a 28MB .MTS file by the camcorder, rendered as a 231MB .MOV file by iMovie 8, and it took 53 sec to process it !
- I export the sequence as: Share >Export Final Cut XML…
- In FCP 5: import XML…then I tried different modes: AIC 1080i60 (image is overstreched), AIC 720p30 (proportion is OK, but I captured in 1080…), AIC DV NTSC 48kHz (not HD…) BUT none of the resulting sequence is rendered, I still have the red bar above the timeline.
For financial reason, I’d like to avoid to go to FCP 6, which seems to work natively with the AVCHD format.
My questions are:
- is there a way to reduce the size of the iMovie converted files: 900MB per minute ?
- is there a way not to have to render the imported files in FCP ?
Can anyone help me ?

I have the same camera and the reality is you're going to go through that translation from AVCHD to some sort of Quicktime file format no matter which tool you use. I do it with FCP6 and it needs to do the same translation from the .mts files to (they recommend) ProRes files. AVCHD is a highly compressed format and when you move it to an editable form, the file(s) is going to get much larger. It is HiDef content after all which can be quite large.
In my case, once I do the transfer to ProRes format nothing needs to be rendered in the FCP timeline unless I add some sort of filter or effect to it.
The rendering problem you are describing is often caused by the Sequence setting not matching the content settings. This is automated in FCP6 where it detects the content format of the video you're trying to add and changes the sequence settings to match the content. Take a look at the sequence settings and see if they match the structure of the content and that should resolve the 'everything needs to be rendered' situation.

PP CC 2014 plays video fine from .mts files, but the audio is glitchy and jumpy.

Premiere Pro CC 2014
OSX 10.9.5
I have imported .MTS files from one Canon C100 into PP through the Media Browser. I kept the file structure intact from the camera when copying. When I play a file in the source or program monitor the video plays back perfectly; however, the audio is glitchy and jumpy. It will skip time, jumping forward and backward seemingly randomly. If I open the same clip in Quicktime 10, it plays back 100% normal. I have restarted, reimported, and even transcoded the files to Pro Res 422 using Media Encoder CC 14. Nothing fixed it. The audio glitches the same way in the transcoded Pro Res Files.
This is only the first of three cards of media. In total I have 120 .mts files in three separate AVCHD folders from a three camera C100 shoot. This leads to another issue I know I will run into. There will be three .mts files named "001," three named "002," etc. I have solved this issue in the past simply by transcoding, but that again failed to work for me thus far. So if I must stick with the .mts files, does anyone know a workflow for using multiple .mts files with the same name in one project/timeline?
Thanks

I find it hard to believe that this fixes the root of the problem as the same files playback fine in CS6. CS6 and CC 2014 should be referencing the same codec library on my system, right? If this is the case, then there is something wrong with how CC14 is decompressing the footage with the codecs that are working fine in CS6.
To further this point. I imported the same files into CS6. CS6 played them back fine, so I saved the session and opened it up in CC14. CC14 converted the project file and all media loaded and plays back normal now.
So if this is a codec issue, it would not have been solved by opening the files first in CS6. It also would not be solved as so many others report by moving the files and relinking to the new folder. It seems to me to be an import issue that is solely in CC14, not CC or CS6.

Poor performance playing .mts files in source monitor

OK is Adobe really that far behind in writing up some code that can handle AVCHD .mts files? I transfer the .mts files from my camera to the hard drive, access them in PP via the media browser, import them to the project panel and when I try to play any of them back in the source monitor, playback is just plain shoddy, piss poor, horrible. I get some stutter (playback stops for a sec then resumes) but mostly what I notice is allot of noise in the video or pixelation, random blocks of pixels jump all over the video. Sorry I don't know how else to explain. I know that converting the .mts files to a lossless format first is the most common response but then where is the time saved with this whole format? Just curious if anyone has any input or maybe some hardware tweaks that might help.
Hardware:
AMD 6400+ dual core proc
6MB RAM
2 GT8800 512MB GPUs
Vista 64bit loaded on 1GB 7200 rpm SATA II HD
Scratch Discs are 4 SATA 80GB 7200rpm in RAID 0

My two cents on all this. I've only been editing for 2 yrs so I'm no expert but my experience is this. High Def formats are resource intensive already, you start adding in transitions, motion graphics, color correction and render times can go off the charts. Most people I talk to or see in the forums are pretty much trying to do what they can on the cheap, myself included ( I would love 2 new maxed out Mac Pro 8 cores, BUT...). My specs are below and with this setup I find that after all the software/firmware updates my system works fine, far from perfect but with a good workflow and some patience I can get most any job completed on time and on budget. I think Harm's post above with links to setting up your OS and optimizing your workstation is critical to success. It made a world of difference for my setup. The next thing I'm finding is the most important thing are your hard drives, you need em fast and plentiful. Ever since I went to one drive for OS/APPS, one for content and a RAID 0 for the scratch disk. My render times and app hang ups/crashes decreased substantially. What I am now finding with my set up is as my external content hard drive fills up, the slower it gets (basic HD logic). Which causes my projects/source monitor playbacks to hang and sometimes crash. So my next step is to set up another internal RAID 0 scratch disk for temp content storage ( I believe the less Adobe has to read/write from the same hard drives the better ). I will load what I need on it for the project then wipe it clean when finished. I am amazed at how quickly you can fill up a 1TB hard drive with HD footage, pics, project folders etc. So my feeling is you can be very productive with a decent workstation, correct hardware setup and lots of big, fast hard drives. On a side note, I can also tell you to delete any resource in your project window that you are not using in your timeline prior to rendering as the media encoder loads EVERYTHING that is in your project window before encoding and that can take up some valuable time.
Dave
Workstations:
ASUS M2N32-Sli Deluxe MB
AMD Athlon Phenom 9850 Quad Core 2.5 GHz
6GB RAM
1 GT8800 512MB GPU
Vista 64bit loaded on 1TB 7200 rpm internal SATA II HD
Scratch Discs are 4 SATA 80GB 7200 rpm internal RAID 0
Content Storage on 1TB 7200 rpm external SATA HD
Cameras:
Sony HDR-SR11
Canon HV20
Canon XH-A1

.MTS files - Stereo playing back as mono

HUGE bone head move, hopfully someone has a resonably quick fix to offer.
Recorded video with the AF-100, .MTS file says stereo but only plays back in left channel.
Now after editing the project in an effort to fix the mistake,
In PPROcs5.5 I did the channel mapping to resolve this to stereo
so now those origanal .MTS files now play back as stereo.
Heres my problem.
In my haste to get this job edited I didn't pay attention to the audio tracks other than to sync the multiple cameras and tracks accordinly.
All of the origanal .MTS files were broken down into subclips , and those subclips are what are in the time line. (30 clips)
Those subclips do not allow me to change the channel mapping, the options are greyed out.
Is there a simple way to change these mono audio clips into stereo or at least play right & left or do I need to redo the whole project?
All resonable suggestions appreciated.

I think that what Harm was recommending was adding the appropriate Fill Left, or Fill Right Effect to get your 1-channel Audio Stream (in a 2-channel Clip), into both channels. Effects>Audio>Fill Left or Fill Right.
Good luck,
Hunt

Sudden MTS File Issues

I have been editing MTS files (AVCHD) from a Panasonic GH2 (Some hacked some stock firmware) for over 2 years with little to no issues. I am using the CS5.5 Master Collection, Premiere Pro in this case, on a 3 year old Sager laptop (64-bit, i-7 720qm, 8GB RAM, 2 internal HDDs, nVidia GeForce GTX 285M). I am not sure if I am having hardware issues or a corrupt file but something is not right.
I am now in the middle of a project and all of the sudden my computer is VERY sluggish and it takes minutes before things update (such as scrolling in my timeline to a different frame) and sometimes it just freezes up all together. There is also an issue (could be related) with the second set of spanned clips (detailed below) from this project.
The timeline is DV 24P widescreen since it is going to DVD and also uses footage shot from a DVX100b for cutaways. The GH2 footage was all shot with stock firmware 1.1 at 24H, all shot on one day and the first recording time was just shy of an hour, then about 20 minutes and then another for about an hour. This produced 3 mts files for the first section, 1 solo file for the short section and 4 files for the last long section. I copied the whole card to my D drive without altering any of the folder structure like a good boy. I brought in the clips to the project window and had no issues with editing the first hour section. I will say that I did not use the media browser as I have learned recently is the preferred way to import these clips. For the last 2 years I have dragged and dropped using the windows explorer window and have not had any issues until now. I have dealt with spanned clips, a music video hat required over ten video tracks and much higher bit rates so I am not sure what the trigger is for these issues. What is odd about the second longer clip is that when the first clip is dragged in to the timeline( 00004), it only brings that clip, not the others that should be attached. The first section worked but not this one. And all of the files that follow this clip are numbered differently but look identical to (00004) when dragged to the timeline. They all appear normal in explorer (smaller clips that should be spanned together) so the footage is in tact, just not in PP.
I experimented a little and copied clip 0005 into it's own folder, dragged it in and it then displayed properly (not a copy of 00004). The sluggish issue is still there so I am not ready to just grin and bear it with this workaround. I also experimented by creating a brand new project, copying the original footage from my archive drive (never imported into a timeline so no xmp files) into a new folder and used media browser to bring in the footage. It didn't show clips 00005 and up since the media browser is only supposed to show the first of the spanned clips but it was still only 24 minutes long and obviously not including the rest of the clips. MEdia browser recognizes these clips are supposed to be together, but PP is seeing them all as copies of 00005.
I will greatly appreciate any opinions but bear in mind that I have used this same workflow on this same system for over 2 years. The only variable is that these spanned clips may be slightly longer than I have used in the past but not by much. I really don't know if there is a peice of hardware malfunctioning, if the clip is somehow corrupt or if I am missing something obvious.
What coulod cause this sudden change in performance? Would editing with a proxy help? Should I convert this trouble clip to a different format? Am I asking too much of my system? Are there ways to check if my computer is functioning properly?
Thanks in advance for any insight and for reading this rather lengthy explaination.
Cole

I wanted to give a quick update on this MTS file issue. I was able to get my system back to normal by isolating the trouble files in their own folders outside of the "Private" folder(the actual source files, not in the premiere project). I copied the first clip of the group into a folder by itself and the last 3 clips into another folder. I deleted the originals from premiere and imported (dragging and dropping from windows, not using media browser) the isolated files and they worked fine. Obviously they were now 4 independent files that I had to place side by side in the timeline but they lined up and there is no more lag in the system and there are no more duplicate files.
Far from conventional but it has me editing again and I didn't have to buy a new computer to be back in business. I can only guess that something glitched when it was conforming and it wouldn't recognize the spanned clips.
A special thanks to Eric at ADK for offering some suggestions that I fortunately didn't have to try.

Undeleted MTS files not working

Hey everyone
I've been trying to resolve this issue for about 2 weeks now and I'm having a lot of difficulty. I have been checking out countless forums, blogs and the like, but still have not been able to solve my problem. I will try and be brief, but my situation is as follows:
My boss handed me an SD card with about 2-3 years video footage which was not backed up, asked me to grab the files off it and delete the rest on the card. Which I did, then accidentally deleted (as well as an empty trash) the files I had just transfered to my desktop, very foolish I know!
After much searching online for programs to recover the deleted files I came across several, I tried the free trials for Stellar Phoenix, Mac Keeper, Nice to Recover & Data Rescue 3. Mac Keeper couldn't recover MTS files at all, and I ended up purchasing Stellar Phoenix. I ran Stellar Phoenix on the SD card and YAY!! I was able to recover the files directly from the source... well so it seems.
Prior to deleting the files I was able to open and watch the MTS files on VLC media player with no problems, but since their recovery I can't seem to find a program that will recognise the files. I tried iMovie, Quicktime even downloaded AVCHD conversion software such as iSkysoft video converter, Doremisoft Mac AVCHD Converter, Clip Wrap and Tanbee AVCHD Video Converter but unfortunately none of the programs could even identify the file format "format not recognised" often being the problem.
At this point I then attempted to recover the MTS files directly from my Trash using Stellar Phoenix, but after several attempts, the files still don't seem to appear at all. This got me searching for more alternatives. I soon discovered Photorec, (http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec) despite the user interface, this proved promising, so far the best and fastest recovery program by a mile. Unfortunately though, it could only find about 5 of about 30 of my lost files and display only subliminal imagery when viewed in VLC.
Now I'm stuck!! has anyone out there gone through anything similar, and did you have any luck recovering your files????
Alex

astanuga wrote:
.... Photorec, (http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec) despite the user interface,.... has anyone out there gone through anything similar, and did you have any luck recovering your files????
Photorec's interface is a Mac User's nightmare, indeed, because it is a Terminal.app only ... but free.
I did use it once, I deleted a file in camera - after pushing 'yes - erase it', I realized I deleted a very nice smile on that track.
so, in my case, the original SDcard existed, I immediately got it out the cam and let Photorec directly from card did its job.
only advice from here: use the original SDcard, no copies, no trashbins, no ... whatever. then you have a high chance.
and Welcome astanuga to the  boards ...

Working with naming redundancy of MTS files

I am new to working with MTS files in prelude and eventually Premiere and have a few questions about the proper workflow. I would be very grateful for any wisdom.
first off background on the project:
- We have .mts files from several different consumer Vixia cameras
- The cameras used the same naming convention for each card. (starting with 000.mts working its way up). These means we have several different .mts files, with the same name.
- The file structures were copied over directly from the cards, and therefore unchanged. However, I still can't work with the metadata for some of the clips... and therefore suspect i need to transcode some of them.
My Questions:
1. Is it a problem that there is a redundancy in the naming of the .mts files, and that i will have several clips in the project with the same name? All the clips are organized into a folder structure based on date and roll, so i'm not worried about the name redundancy when i'm actually editing. I am worried that if the media gets disconnected Adobe won't know which clip to look for, and may try to reconnect the wrong clip with the same name. Does Adobe reconnect based only of file name, or does it also look at the path?
I'm scared if i change the file name, it will be hard to make sure the file name is changed across the folder structure, and therefore the native structure could be corrupted.
What is a best practice workflow for working with .mts files with the same name in adobe?
2. Alot of the footage is shot by non-professionals, who didn't know to break up clips. Therefore, we have a lot of "spanned" .mts files. is there any solution to spanned files? I've read in a previous forum that there is not, and that the only way to avoid the issue is to transcode. Is that information still true?
3. If i do have to transcode, what is the recommended codec? I usually go with prores 4444, but that codec's file size is way too big for the amount of footage we have to go through. Any suggestions?
I would be so grateful if anyone can help on these questions!!

Working with these AVCHD files just involves a bit of care and proper project management.
eg Well named Source Folders (on local hard drives) and well named "rushes" Folders in your Premiere Project.
Take care when importing/ ingesting to not overwrite the files at any point..
No need to rename or transcode source files.
Relocating / Relinking is not an issue. (especially if you dont lose them in the first instance).
If workflow involves additional pipelines eg delivery via edl to a Color Suite.
Ensure timecode and source files are clearly set up in a manageable way.
BTW - If one is able to shoot with control of timecode..its helpful. eg Card 1 = 01:00:00:00, Card 2 =02:00:00:00 etc...

Lumix DSLR when mounted has .MTS files. How exactly can I get those files

I've got some .MTS files from video I shot on my Lumix GH1. The footage was 1080 24p and this is exactly the frame rate I would like to edit in. After a log&transfer with FCP, my files are changed to 29.9.
Its been suggested to me that I use compressor to create a droplet in order to transcode my files back to their original state. The missing step is, from the memory card, there are only .MTS files and those will not drag/drop into compressor. I understand that FCP will transcode my original files to .MOV but now they've been altered. Is there a workflow to go from the camera being mounted, directly into compressor to get 24p 1080 files ?

Your material is recorded at 29.97fps. It's nicely obscured in the Canon tech specs, but the sensor captures 24fps, but those images get recorded at 29.97 with pulldown added. It's how movies that are 24fps are played on TV that's 29.97. That's what's happening in your camera. That's why the material is ingested at 29.97, because that's what it is. You should read in the manual how to work with this material.

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