• Adobe Premiere Pro

  does CS5 re-join the 4gb .MTS files automatically created?

  Posted by David Payne on January 4, 2011 at 9:32 pm

  Hi all,

  on many AVCHD cameras when recording for over 24 mins or so (over 4gb) a new file is created on the memory card.

  I’ve heard that FCP rejoins these seamlessly when importing into premiere. Does anyone know if CS5 also does this?

  David Payne replied 15 years, 4 months ago 4 Members · 3 Replies
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  Brian Louis

  January 4, 2011 at 9:53 pm

  Usually the camcorders come with software to rejoin and copy the files from the media they are on to the harddrive.
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  Steve Brame

  January 4, 2011 at 10:46 pm

  We just received several cards from a Sony XDCAM camcorder each with a single recorded clip and the clip is broken up similarly in to ~4GB files. I simply imported the first of the files, and the clip created in Premiere was the entire clip from the card. So, each individual file must contain a pointer to the next one in the sequence.

  Steve Brame
  creative illusions Productions
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  David Payne

  January 5, 2011 at 9:25 am

  thanks very much guys. After reading this I remembered I have access to CS5 at work so took in an SD card full of 4gb files totalling 1hr 40 mins.

  I copied the PRIVATE folder from the card to the desktop and imported into CS5 and although it shows each of the 4 clips in the project window, the length on all of them is 1hr 40mins.

  When I drag the 1st one into the timeline it is 1hr 40mins so it obviously joins them all which is great news.

  I did some more tests and moved them out of the default file structure (PRIVATE – STREAM – etc etc) and found they still worked.

  When i renamed the files they did NOT attempt to join and interestingly when I renamed them back to what (I think) they were originally they still did not join automatically.

  All in all, well done CS5!

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