P: Support the AVCHD video format

I don't know what problems the conversion programs may have.

There's a bunch of programs that can convert an mts to mp4, surely they dont all have audio problems, eh?

I looked into option 2 for a while. I understand some people use Mediacoder to change mts to mp4, but that leads to audio problems, which they then use Audacity to solve. I have no idea what Mediacoder is, and wouldn't want to do this unless there was an app that I fully trusted.

What about option 2?

PS - Adobe considered AVCHD (Adobe employees did chime in on the forum *after* Lr3 was released) but it didn't make the cut for Lr3. My guess: Lr4. But Adobe *never* reveals plans for future versions, so...

I had posted this as a question rather than a FR because I was hoping to find out Adobe's thinking. It was changed to a FR, but I'm still hoping Adobe would weigh in. It is a critical issue for me.

(PS: I'm not sure that Option 1 works because of the way Premiere Pro--my editing app--handles metadata. The option I've adopted is to cut LR out of the loop. I just use other tools.)

Until Adobe does support AVCHD video, why not use the solutions that are available today?

There's tons of info on the *other* forum about it, but a quick recap:

Option 1:
- Copy mts files to wherever (via plugin or manually...)
- Use plugin to display / launch in Lightroom (AnyFile or JF's video plugin)

Option 2:
- Re-wrap mts files in a video container that *is* supported by Lightroom.

PS - I was going to add a plugin option to re-wrap mts files into a supported container file format and import automatically, but I never got enough info from AVCHD proponents.

PPS - Video support was no surprise to me ;-}

Reminder:
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It may be another year or more before Lr4 is out - do you really want to wait that long?

Summary:
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I'm *sure* (I dont know) Lr4 will support AVCHD, but until then...

Rob