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gened78432486
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October 16, 2019
Question

AVCHD files using audio from a file of the same name even though they're in a different folder

  • October 16, 2019
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I've had this problem for years, but never addressed it. I thought for sure someone would have brought it up, but I searched this forum and did a Google search and could not find anyone else who brought it up.

 

If I am using AVCHD files in a project and I open another project (leaving the first one open), if the AVCHD files in the first project have the same name as the AVCHD files in the newly opened project (which is usually the case), the files in the first project assume the audio of the second project. For example, a file called 0001.mts will lose it's original audio and now have the audio of the file called 0001.mts from the new project.

 

Does anyone know of a solution for this other than don't open two projects at the same time? My camera (C100) doesn't allow me to name my files, which is the first solution that came to mind. Meaning if I put a new SD card in, the file naming convention starts all over again so I'm going to have files open at the same time with the same names.

 

Now, I will say that if I close the project and open it again without the second project open, the audio will correct itself, but sometimes, I need both projects open. And I have had this happen on multiple systems through multiple versions of the software and using AVCHD files from multiple cameras (i.e. C100 and Sony EA-50).

 

Thanks for any thoughts or insight.

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    R Neil Haugen
    Legend
    October 16, 2019

    This most commonly happens when only the video files are copied from the camera card rather than copying the AVCHD folder structure from the camera card. With AVCHD, a lot of the metadata of the individual files are stored in "related" folders and not in the media files themselves.

     

    For Premiere to properly ingest that media, and track it through projects,  it needs that other metadata.

     

    I do know a lot of editors that use say Prelude or Media Encoder to batch rename files on uploading to the computer to get away from this problem.

     

    Neil

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    gened78432486
    Known Participant
    October 17, 2019
    Hi Neil. Thanks for your response. I always copy the whole file structure to my hard drive and bring in the .mts files and I still have the same problem. I've never used Prelude, but when you talk about batch renaming file in Media Encoders, do you literally mean rename them without transcoding them?