.MTS files

[Steve Brame]

MTS files are AVCHD files from specific cameras. We play them with VLC Media Player, which has a Mac version.

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[Nathan Ludlow]

I am actually currently working on a project with .MTS footage. It plays in VLC player and I had no trouble loading it straight into Premiere Pro CC. The only issue I had with importing was that Premiere combined some of my clips. For example, say I loaded 5 .MTS files into premiere named 01, 02, 03, 04, and 05. If 01 through 04 were each 15 min long and 05 was 5 min long, Premiere would still load 5 files with the same names, but 01 though 04 would be identical 1 hour clips and 05 would still be 5 min. My project is using footage from a Canon Vixia camcorder, so that could have had something to do with it, but I thought it was worth giving a heads up.

[Steve Brame]

This is explained here in the last section – “About spanned clips”

https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/importing-assets-tapeless-formats.html

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[Marcin Grabos]

Nathan, this is quite common behavior when you drag&drop instead of using Media Browser to import spanned clips.

[Spencer Tycksen]

Thank you for the tip on using VLC player. That helped. However, when I would try to convert the footage, VLC would crash every time. I was able to use Handbrake to successfully convert the footage into the format I preferred. Thanks everyone for your helpful responses.