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Question about AVCHD Clip Rename
I’m begining an edit in PPro CS5 with a fair amount of footage created on with a Panasonic AF100. The the AVCHD video clips are all have the “.mts” extention. Premiere seems to have no trouble dealing with the native clips.
My concern however is filenames. All of the video clips from different shoots have the same naming structure. It’s a simple sequence with 00000.mts as the initial clip each subsequent clip incremental the number by 1. Since I’m going to be dealing with a large number of clips, from several shoots, this is not going to work. I’m ending up with multiple clips with the same name.
I’d like to rename these clips (using Bridge) to something more descriptive. However since these arrive in a variety of nested folders I’m worried that I may be setting myself up for problems down the road as the rename will doubtless sever the individual clips from thier “support” files. The question is, what do I lose if I rename the original video clips?
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5 Replies
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Shooting with Panasonic HMC-150’s, we’ve had the same problem for a few years, mainly when neding to relink media after reactivating an archived project, and PPro tells you to locate ‘00032.mts’, and you have 5 of them in different folders from different cameras of days. We’ve noticed that if you pick the wrong ‘00032.mts’ file, PPro will yell at you, saying that there is a mismatch, basically letting you know that it isn’t the correct one.
That being said, we’ve also renamed files in a folder and were able to import without any issues.
Steve Brame
creative illusions Productions -
In general, file naming, and structured folder sets are two of the most annoying aspects of managing the process of native format editing.
Alex Udell
Editing, Motion Graphics, and Visual FX
Chumney & Assoc. Advertising -
No question. I’ve run some tests and renamed just the clips. No lightening bolts arrived and they behaved nicely on the timeline. Unfortunately they had no time code, which for the material we shot ISO makes that strategy worthless. I wonder if anyone has created an application that allows some basic types of manipulation of these native files that also updates their support files. I don’t need to convert the data to a different format, I just want to organize my shots on a medium to large project.
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The only thing Ive heard of that vaguely resembles what you are describing was in FCP. Canon bought from Gluetools an app that allowed you to convert h.264 to Prores. It also would look at the time of day data in the clip and lock it into real timecode. But it does you no good in your situation.
Tom Daigon
Avid DS / PrP / After Effects Editor
http://www.hdshotsandcuts.com -
You might take a look at some of the tools that Image Products offers.
Don’t know for sure, but they might be of some help.
Imagineproducts(dot)com
Lemme know what you find….I’d be interested….
Alex
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