P: Support the AVCHD video format

I'm trying to find out whether Lightroom supports videos out of the Nikon D7000; should I start a different question thread for that?

I get it. You'd *like* to have your AVCHD videos imported along with your photos in Lightroom. But the problem is manageable without re-wrapping or plugin automation in the interim. - One version at a time I guess...

Right now I'm considering a Nikon D7000, which wraps H.264 compressed video in .MOV file. Is that supported?

Did you try downloading mediacoder from that cnet page? It sends you here to the "publisher's pages": http://mediacoder-sourceforge.net/.

Anyhow, I really am not interested in hacking my way around. I am editing mts files just fine right now without LR in the workflow. Sure, video support happened to be one of the main factors that swayed me in favor of upgrading from LR 2--I would have been happy editing my photos in Photoshop/Bridge CS5 and only sending the output to LR 2 to organize--but Julie Kmoch explained pretty clearly that Adobe just didn't have time to support .mts files in LR3 because of OS issues. Oddly, Bridge CS5 displays thumbnails of mts files just fine on Windows 7.

The bar is higher for LR 4. For LR 4 to convince me, it has to do more than support mts--for which I have devised a workflow that doesn't include LR--it has to support all files that might be used in a video including audio. I have another feature request on that and we'll see what happens.

The software is open-source, and you can download a binary from CNET - should be safe: http://download.cnet.com/MediaCoder/3... - this is for Windows (are you on Mac?)

A question for Julie and other experts: does Lightroom support the video from Nikon D7000, which is H.264 compression stored in .MOV file?

Rob: I googled Mediacoder. At least half a dozen different programs using that same name came up. One site triggered a security warning from my firm's server. I really don't want to play where is Waldo, and typically I do not install software I don't trust. In Adobe I trust.

Photographe - Lee Jay had NO problems with audio. Why don't you give it a try? I mean, if it looks good, sounds good, loads into your editor, supports metadata, and plays in your player, then there's no problems. Sure - archive the original, why not? The mp4 vs. mts "envelope" is really just a way to house the video & audio streams, plus metadata. Nothing is being re-encoded... There's no real downside of giving it a shot, and you may have what you want, and be able to wait far more patiently & happily for official Adobe support.

I did direct stream copy. No data was changed at all.

Any thoughts from Adobe on translating .MTS to .MP4 instead of trying to keep them in original containers? My (rather limited) experience indicates the folders & mts format is more nuisance than desirable for the users even if Lightroom could handle it without translation.

I'm sure if you do a little research you can find something that works. If you do (or anyone else does), then please let me know. If its easy enough to do it via a simple command line, then I'll automate it via plugin, as an option for the brave...

Lee Jay: You got audio issues using MediaCoder?

The main problem we ran into with AVCHD is that we're using native OS libraries (i.e. QuickTime) to create the thumbnails in grid and to play them. QuickTime doesn't support .MTS files, and coverage on various Windows versions was spotty. We definitely hear you on the feature request.