[Charlotte Kaufman]

Hi Phillip,

Thank you very much for taking the time to answer my questions! I am going to test out your strategy on a few of my .mts files. Before I do that, I have a question about name changer. I tried renaming the .mts files with name changer before, but i found that once i did that, i no longer had access to changing the clips meta-data. Did you find the same issue? Adobe could read the clips, but if i wanted to work with their meta-data, I wasn’t able to.

Thank you again for taking the time to read my post! I really appreciate it!

best,
charlotte

[Charlotte Kaufman]

Hi All,

I’ve been concerned with the same issue for sometime and looking for a solution to deal with redundant file names (especially MTS) and the potential chaos that will ensue if footage goes offline.

One mitigating effort i want to make is to figure out a way to lock the folder structure and file location, while still allowing me to edit. So i don’t inadvertently move something and cause it to go offline.

Any ideas on how to do this, is it possible? Or any other tips on avoiding files from going offline?

Thanks for any suggestions!

[Charlotte Kaufman]

I have a related question, regarding MTS files.

1. Is it a problem that there is a redundancy in the naming of the .mts files, and that i will have several clips in the project with the same name? All the clips are organized into a folder structure based on date and roll, so i’m not worried about the name redundancy when i’m actually editing. I am worried that if the media gets disconnected Adobe won’t know which clip to look for, and may try to reconnect the wrong clip with the same name. Does Adobe reconnect based only of file name, or does it also look at the path?