P: No sound/audio when playing mts video

Has anyone tried this yet with Lightroom 5 beta? I'm downloading it now and will make this one of the first things I try.

Although Dolby 5.1 sound is preserved in the original clip and also in published clips, it would still be preferable to have LR4.x support playback. If a plug-in for Dolby 5.1 sound playback were to be offered, it seems there would likely be significant interest from users of cameras recording in this sound format. Will this likely to be forthcoming from Adobe or from any other sources?

Paul,

When will the licensing issue be worked out?

Marty- your video on disk still has audio, Lightroom simply does not play it due to the aforementioned licensing restrictions. Lightroom will never modify the original file's sound, so playing the video in an external player with Dolby 5.1 support should play the video with sound.

I have imported videos into LightRoom and deleted these from my memory card. Has the sound been imported but I am unable to hear it, or has it not been imported at all? When will ADOBE fix this licensing problem?

I have imported my videos into Lightroom and deleted them from the memory card. Has the sound been imported but I am disallowed from hearing it? Or, has the sound not been imported at all? When will this be fixed?

In my case the video files from my Sony AVCHD camcorder played audio fine in LR4.0 but after 4.1 and 4.2 were installed the audio stopped working.

When will this bug be fixed? I echo John Fitxpatrick's comments above. This is a useless program if the sound does not play.

Mohammed Ajouz

I purchased the Aiseesoft converter and set it up for MP4 output. I loaded *.MTS and selected the output location and let it run. Then I used these videos in Lightroom and in Apple Final Cut Pro X. The worked fine but it is still a lot of hassel for something that Lightroom could make available for a cost if necessary.

What MTS converter did you buy and what format did you convert them to?

Delane Wycoff, so far I have yet to find a viable solution to this problem. While there are ways of converting the files to a format that works in Lightroom, that doesn't work for me. Why go spend the money for a HD camera with Surround sound only to be required to convert the files to a different format to use them in Lightroom? It makes no sense to me and is really frustrating. The worst part is that the files work great in Premier CS5 so Adobe obviously has the capability to fix this... Heck, I'm willing to pay for another piece of software through Adobe which would merge the workflows of Lightroom with the power of Premier... I just want something that does it all... Since they advertise Lightroom as working with video, I think they should fix it. Otherwise, stop advertising video as a part of Lightroom standard and make a special Lightroom Video edition that has ALL video formats.

Just my thoughts on the problem.