CS6.0.2 Update No Fix For AVCHD Spanned Clips - Workarounds?

[jefbak]

While I try to avoid Spanned Clips as much as possible due to a history with Premiere importing them, for event coverage we still get them and I just can't figure out how to make them work in Premeire CS6 on OS X. I see lots of posts about this and would like to know if there is a fix that does not require purchasing another product (like MTS Merge $35).

We are using AVCHD footage from Pansonic cameras and if it spanned, the sound will be missing for much or all or the clip.

I have tried using the Media Browser to import the entire AVCHD folder.

I have tried using Panasonics AVCHD Viewer application to import the footage (switches wrapper to .mt2s instead of .mts).

I have tried transcoding to new codec (Quicktime and VLC will play the MTS file correctly but output loses audio sync).

Ugh, this is terrible. Has anyone else found a workaround?

[ns194]

After encoding to h.264, the clip works fine in Premiere. Truly strange - this leads me to believe that the problem lay at least in part with the ClipWrap software, which produced those white frames in playback in Premiere both after rewrapping and after transcoding to Prores. I matched the source settings as best I could in Media Encoder's h.264 menu, and lo and behold my clip behaves normally now, albiet as an mp4. For my purposes, the quality difference is indistinguishable. Sweet. 

[jefbak]

Interesting I will give this a try on my clips and see how it goes.

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[obsidiansun]

Hi All -

I've been hunting around to find out if there is any further movement on this problem - I see this is 'answered' but the approved answer is still a workaround, and transcoding all my video before I edit is something I was trying to avoid. I tried using PP CS6 to edit spanned AVCHD material from a Canon Vixia HF-G10, and have wound up transcoding to ProRes (space-wasting on my drives) to have a reliable format with which to edit. I'm also doing Multicam, which from the look of this board makes the issue worse. I keep reading that CS5 didn't have these issues - is there ANY kind of timeline as far as when PP CS6 will be able to handle AVCHD spanned clips natively, as advertised??

Thanks,

Andrew

[excited_Genie16B8]

I've not seen any info from Adobe on when the spanning issue might be fixed.

[obsidiansun]

Thanks, Jim - at least I know I'm not missing anything ...

[TradeWind]

obsidiansun wrote:

is there ANY kind of timeline as far as when PP CS6 will be able to handle AVCHD spanned clips natively, as advertised??

Thanks,

Andrew

As stated many times previously, this is a supported feature, works great. I have no issues with "spanned" AVCHD clips in PPro CS5 or CS6. Have AF100, AC130, HMC150...have previously used the HMC40 and HMC70 also....never an issue. 100's of hours of footage of the last few years, many clips 30 minutes or longer.

Open the media browser, browse to the AVCHD folder, you'll see the clips. Import those clips (not the actual folder itself) and you'll see the clips there, just as they were shot, just as they'd appear in the playback on the camera itself.

[obsidiansun]

Thanks, Christian - that is what I have done. What I get most commonly is the 'Media Pending' screen. Editing with this format natively in Multicam is even worse. I'm glad you're working unencumbered, but I am not. I hope Adobe addresses this glitch soon.

Andrew

[excited_Genie16B8]

Have AF100, AC130, HMC150...have previously used the HMC40 and HMC70 also....never an issue.

I use the GH2 myself without issue.  Seems to be Panasonic cameras are not affected.  Not sure why.

[Rishaar]

Does anybody knows if the Canon XA-10, Sony FS-100 and FS-700 are affected by this spanned clip issue?

Please share your experience if you have , thank you !

[AnthonyArrien]

And does anybody know if the Sony HXR-NX30U is affected by this spanned clip issue in CS6?

I want to purchase that camera and I would like to buy Adobe CS6 to go with it, but everything is on hold until I can get the answer.

Thanks for any info.

[excited_Genie16B8]

Go with the newest Premiere Pro CC and this won't be an issue.  (Plus you get a lot of other nice goodies in the new version. )

[Stan Jones]

See this thread:

http://forums.adobe.com/message/5431966#5431966

That camera has no results as of the last post.

[Todd_Kopriva]

The Premiere Pro CS6 (6.0.4) update fixes a bug with spanned AVCHD clips: http://bit.ly/DVA_updates