[Tom O’neill]

Just as a matter of interest, what are you editing with and did you try importing directly to the system?

[Tom O’neill]

I have been having the same problem bringing the .mts files in with Final Cut Pro’s Log and Transfer utility.

Rather than deleting “Ghost Files” or dragging the AVCHD folder to my desktop and working from there I tried creating a new folder on my main comp’s desktop dedicated specifically to importing. This worked and has continued to work.

I think that the root of this problem, beyond AVCHD wanting to work on a PC workflow, may be the daisy chain between mac hard drives. I’m sure most of the posters neglected to mention that they are working in a workflow where their Scratch discs, project files and other media are all on different hard drives – different even from their home folder.

An other problem as far as the internal communication between your edit systems and media could be found, when using a mac, in the use of the “Timevault” home folder. Though it is a good thing to have set up on your computer it does make it difficult for programs to locate files in and around your home folder. The original error message – “Home folder.. has unrecognized file types..” is, for the most part, related to that and not specifically related to problem occurring when trying to import the .mts files into final cut.

As far as workflows around this problem go, I suggest having a folder on your desktop entitled “import” or the like. Set final cut’s capture scratch into that folder and save your “import Project” in that folder as well. Do all of your capturing into that one folder and then move the entire folder where you want it after. Then you can rename the folder/project file etc. and all of the raw converted footage will be in the capture scratch folders within that archive.

Hope this helps.

[Tom O’neill]

Remember that FCP doesn’t like H264 for editing – it prefers Apple Pro res as a codec within the .mov wrapper.