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AVCHD camera files – timecode & mgmt issues
OK, I’m still getting up to speed on the gotchas of working with AVCHD .mts camera files.
Got a camera card that contains 2 projects. Want to separate the files, keep them with their respective projects, not lumped into an image of the original camera card (if att all possible) when transferred to edit filesystem.
Tried Clipwrap to put them into .mov wrappers. This has worked in the past with FCP. Seemed to work for PPro, but after trying to open a few, PPro locked up. (wouldn’t show video from the clip, wouldn’t play the one that video did appear, etc)
Copied the .mts files for the shots for the first project, opened in PPro, but found that timecode was no longer maintained. Guess that’s in some other supporting file.
Copied entire card structure, and PPro is very happy.
BUT, now I’m back to everything lumped into original card structure. WHAT I WANT is to separate files based on project.
Is this possible?
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At the moment, I think the answer is no.
Premiere Pro’s handling of tapeless media (logging/binning/etc.) is still lacking. It seems that all the media management for what we might consider “ingest” really has to happen outside of the NLE since it has to already be “on the machine.” What we need is a Log & Tranfer like FCP, but without the transcoding. I’d even accept that it would simply be a utility for importing whole clips.
Conversely (as we’re all quite aware) Premiere’s ability to use those files in an edit is stellar.
I tried to use OnLocation for “ingest” from disk images but it’s behaviour is the same as PremierePro’s. It won’t move or work with MTS files unless they’re already on the hard disk in read/write-enabled directories; this means you can’t create disk images of cards while you’re on location and then use those later on to “import” footage – since there is no true “import” with Premiere – just linking.
In my case the AVCHD footage is Panasonic AVCCAM. So when I had multiple “shoots” on a card (or even multiple scenes on a card) I would copy the selected clips onto a new blank card in slot 2 on the camera and then use that card image to maintain timecode etc while not having my clips all confused together.
That’s the best workaround I could think of at the time.
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