I was used to the firewire, mini-dv tape capture process, but have been confused about how to import my video footage from an AVCHD camcorder into Premiere Pro CS5.
The capture window doesn't work with the camcoder connected by USB or with the memory card from the camera in a USB card reader.
How can I preview the video footage and select which clips to import?
Thanks for any advice.
The capture window doesn't work with the camcoder connected by USB or with the memory card from the camera in a USB card reader.
How can I preview the video footage and select which clips to import?
Thanks for any advice.
1. With non-tape cameras, just Copy over the files to the HDD. Then, Import from that location. There will be no Capture process involved.
Good luck,
Hunt
PS - make sure to Copy the files, and do NOT work from the card. Get USB out of the loop as quickly, as is possible.
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My Canon Vixia HFS100 creates AVCHD (MTS) files on a memory card
Since the REALLY CRAPPY Canon software doesn't like Win7 64bit, and Win7 by itself doesn't "see" the camera (I might be able to fix this, but I just don't care to mess around with settings) I bought a USB adapter (link below) and just take the memory card out of the camera and then use Windows Explorer to copy the MTS files to my computer
According to my testing, there is no directory structure I need to copy... just the individual MTS files
NOTE that I have CS5 on order so won't know until it arrives if the individual MTS files are all I need (think so... they all seem to be self-contained and play just fine)
3.Thanks. So there is no way to preview anything before importing?
When I use Final Cut Pro it has a log and transfer option that opens a window where all of the clips from the camcorder or the memory card are shown and you can preview the clips and even set in/out points on the clips before deciding which ones to import and how much of each clip to import.
That was the way that the capture worked with firewire also, and I'm surprised that this functionality is not available with avchd files.
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When I use Final Cut Pro it has a log and transfer option that opens a window where all of the clips from the camcorder or the memory card are shown and you can preview the clips and even set in/out points on the clips before deciding which ones to import and how much of each clip to import.
That was the way that the capture worked with firewire also, and I'm surprised that this functionality is not available with avchd files.
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Not sure if you can get similar with Media Browser/Bridge, but it might be worth a look.
Good luck,
Hunt
