Working with offline clips

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I'd like to re-linking to MTS files with CS6 Premier using MAC Mountain Lion. This becomes an issue when you are opening a project file sent to you by a collaborator and both of you have the same footage each computer but located on different drives. This requires re-linking the media to match the location on your drive.
1. With the latest update of Mountain Lion, MAC now packages the AVCHD file structure into a single file called AVCHD (with a QuickTime logo).
2. In a standard MAC finder, you can now open this file to reveal all your MTS clips as thumbnails viewable in QuickTime - nice for a quick look at your footage withou having to open it a separate app.
3. You can also right click on the AVCHD file and "Show package contents". This gives you acces to the complete AVCHD file structure down to individual MTS files in the Stream folder.
4. However, when you are within CS6 Premier and need to re-link a file on the timeline or media browser you are stymied by the AVCHD file.
5. When you try to re-link using the Premier finder window (which looks a lot like a MAC finder window but with extra buttons) you see the AVCHD file. If you try to open it, you get a file type not supported. If you try to open the package (as described above) the only option you get is "Quick Look".
6. Currently, the only work-around I'm aware of is to rename the AVCHD file in the MAC finder window to anything else. This breaks the connection to QuickTime and allows you access to the full directory structure (you also need to rename the BDMV file to anything else).
7. Now you can re-link files from the Premier timeline since you can drill down to individual MTS files. However, because the AVCHD naming convention starts file names with 00000.MTS for every directory, you need some hint as to WHICH directory the file on the timeline comes from.
8. Also, with this work-around, you have to manually re-link each file. Premier will not pickup other files in the path.
9. I also experimented with renaming the directory back to AVCHD. This does restore the QuickTime icon but not the functionality. Apparently initial renaming breaks a fork that naming it back to AVCHD does not automatically restore. There is probably away to get the fork back, but I haven't found it yet.
10. We updated from Snow Lepeord to latest Mountain Lion as part of our transition from Final Cut Studio 2 and FCP7. We liked the ability to view MTS clips natively in MAC finder. It wasn't until the re-linking requirement that we discovered this flaw.
I've reported this to Adobe support and they have confirmed the problem.They are researching it.
In my opinion, the programmers need to add file drill down capability to the Premier link window as the solution.
This problem has probably arisen due to Mountain Liion's latest update that packages the AVCHD directory. Premier hasn't caught up to that update.

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• Every Master must be in a Project, and can be in +only one+ Project.
In practice, making Project equal to "shoot" makes observing this rule trivial (and also makes Aperture easy to use).
Aperture has built-in at both the image-level and the Project-level date and time sorting. +There is no reason at all to create an image storage and access structure based on date.+ This is worth emphasizing: you cannot use Aperture and not have a complete, robust, useful date and time storage and retrieval structure for every image and every Project. It's built in. Recreating it with your Library is redundant. Redundancy is wasteful.
The secondary storage and access structure is for your files. With a Library consisting of only Managed Masters, Aperture does this for you -- there is nothing for you to do. With Referenced Masters, you are responsible for the filing structure of your Masters. Think carefully about what you actually need from the file storage structure, given that you are going to develop a fully-customized image storage and retrieval structure within Aperture. My conclusion was that for photographs taken by me, all of my needs were met by putting them together in one folder (with no shots not taken by me) and file them all into sub-folders by Y/M/D. After making a couple of settings, Aperture does this automatically. The other set of images I manage are "shots not taken by me". These go into either a general folder ("Others Shots") or client-specific folders ("JaneDoeInc"). (Note: these last are not shots taken by me for a client, they are shots taken by a client and included in a Library I administer.) Those folders, too, are grouped by sub-folders as Y/M/D. The only reason I have created three distinct folder "trees" is because I need to administer (primarily back-up) each of them differently. Back-up of Referenced Masters is NOT done within Aperture. Your planning of your Referenced Masters file folder structure should be guided by your file administration needs (again, this is primarily about backing up the files you administer). The only file adminstration need I had was to keep separate my shots, some clients shots, and other "not my" shots.
You can -- and likely should -- leave your current Finder folder trees intact. But you should plan on leaving that whole structure behind. *Use Aperture as a DAMS -- not as a fancy file browser.*
Good luck. Ask questions.
Message was edited by: Kirby Krieger

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