• Adobe Premiere Pro

  Logging Workflow of AVCDH Footage in Premier Pro CC

  Posted by Gregory Gunder on December 20, 2013 at 10:15 pm

  I am new to Adobe Premier Pro – switching from FInal Cut Studio 7. I love the fact that AVCHD is available immediately. I have concerns about loosing track of source footage in the middle of a large project with file names in Premier different than original/source files.

  Up front, I do not need technical steps to import my AVCHD footage into Premier Pro CC. It works great and I love it.

  I am struggling with workflow to organizing large amounts of AVCHD clips in Premier. They come in as 000000.MTS or 000014.MTS. On the backend, I know that if I a clip larger than 2.14 gbs, that Premier will automatically concatenate it to the next clip. (Love it!) BUT – in premier I only see the first clip of series of concatenated clips. IF I rename the source clip in the AVCHD folder on the computer- say 000001.MTS to Talking_Head.MTS, I will loose the concatenation and the Premier does not see the clip. Fine-I am assuming that is a given. Don’t futz with original AVCHD file names and structures.

  Now, just imagine yourself if the middle of a large project with 2300 clips and not being able to relink or something like that. How should I proceed without doing something not terribly bright? AND there may be no perfect answer to this.

  SO – is the best approach to rename clips in Premier as I ‘import’ them and change to meaningful names – trusting I can always get back to a source through ‘reveal in finder’. OR do I leave the original name and use other metadata fields for meaning names and info? Again – this is a workflow – not a technical question. If I am in the wrong forum – my apologies.

  Thanks in advance,
  Greg

  Charlee Collins replied 12 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Charlee Collins

  January 14, 2014 at 11:31 pm

  Hi Greg – did you end up finding the answer for this question. I am at a similar crossroads.

  Cheers,

  Charlee
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  Gregory Gunder

  January 15, 2014 at 3:46 pm

  Charlee,

  Your’s is the only response to this post. I have started looking at Adobe Prelude as a logging tool. On first glance it seems to mimic the log & transfer in Final Cut Studio 7. It will transcode, allow you to rename, and organized the transcoded files into folders. Again, all well and good, but for me I enjoy working with AVCHD files without transcoding.

  I have found that if I rename the file in Premiere, the properties of that file will reflect its original name and location. Not ideal. And I must be very careful how I archive the project as well.

  Best,
  Greg
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  Charlee Collins

  January 22, 2014 at 1:10 am

  Thanks for your response Greg 🙂

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