renaming mts files best practice?

[Alex Udell]

hi….

a couple of choices come to mind.

1) Prelude – thru some of the transcoding options would allow renaming during the transcode. This would entirely preserve your source media set but give you a new set with whatever names you wanted.

2) Adobe Bridge has a pretty robust toolset for batch renaming files which would allow you to keep the original file name as part of the new file name. Or (if MTS allows metadata embedding) changing the file name while keeping the file name in the embedded metadata (which can still be seen/searched by Bridge). This also assumes that the .mts files are self contained audio video files and not part of a structured media set (like MXF).

As with ANY of this….renaming and organizing media should be done PRIOR to use in PPro. I’ve seen som threads here where people decided to do this after starting a project. Not such a good idea.

So I suggest some testing….see what works for your flow…then push into a real project.

hope that helps….

Alex Udell
Editing, Motion Graphics, and Visual FX

[Yair Bartal]

As far as I know AVCHD footage comes in a defined folder structure, and if you rename the mts files you break its integrity.

[Paul Neumann]

That’s why you should use Prelude. Just using the Transfer To A New Destination and the Renaming function will rebuild an AVCHD folder structure of the original media with the new name. You can also make select structures if you want to split up the original AVCHD folder.

[Yair Bartal]

Well, I may miss some, however here: https://helpx.adobe.com/prelude/using/prelude-projects.html it says under “Renaming files during ingest”:

Files that are a part of a complex folder structure (like P2) are not renamed.

What do I miss?

[Alex Udell]

1) You can ingest to a new named FOLDER and it won’t rename files. But al teast you can find things in the file system related to however you choose to organize it.

2) if you use transcoding while ingesting (say to a .mov format) then you can name the file whatever you like. organize however you like, do partial ingest if you wish. It’s just not native anymore. This would be similar to “Log and Transfer” in FCP 7. I suppose you’d need to make sure that you destination format supports the number of audio channels from you source…

Alex Udell
Editing, Motion Graphics, and Visual FX

[Yair Bartal]

That’s more clear.

Thanks.

[Paul Neumann]

When you ingest something into Prelude (and transfer it at the same time, because you don’t want to mess with the original card) it will show up in Prelude with the new name. If you send that clip to PPro from Prelude it will have the new name in your PPro Project Bin. If you import into PPro from the new structure it will have the original name, but it will carry the new name in its metadata making it searchable by the new name.