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