No audio in MTS video files

[benedictf19896202]

Hey all,

When I import my MTS files from my Sony a5000, it only imports the video, not the audio. I've been scouring forums and google and can't seem to find a solution that works.

I'm still pretty new to Premiere Pro, so this might be a dumb question! 😂

I'm running Premiere Pro CC ver. 14.0.3 on a 2019 iMac, macOS Catalina 10.15.3.

I've tried importing both with the media browser and from a finder window, is it a codec issue?

I read some older forum posts that said Adobe stopped supporting the Dolby audio codecs, but it says newer computers should already have them.

Thanks in advance for your help, I've been wracking my brain to figure this out!!

[R Neil Haugen]

You are running into a "targeting" problem. Premiere needs to know where you want the media, as upper-capable operators will typically be using keyboard shorts to move clips around. So ... the users sets Source (for material coming from the Source monitor) and Track (for moving things around within a timeline) so Premiere knows what you want it to do.

Here's a graphic ...

The two blocks on the left are the Source target blocks. Click in the gray background at the far left of a track and you turn it blue, meaning that is setting Source targeting.

The several blue blocks to the right are Track targets having been set.

Neil

[benedictf19896202]

Thanks for the reply Neil!

I think I understand what you're saying, but my problem starts with importing the footage from the SD card. For some reason it's not importing the audio with the video (I know there's audio with it, I was able to watch the preview in finder with audio).

As you can see in the screenshot, there's only video and not the accompanying audio.

[R Neil Haugen · Accepted solution]

COPY the entire contents of the SD card to a drive on your computer, do not try and import directly from the card.

Then use the Premiere Media browser to navigate to the card ... and ingest it.

Your video and audio files are probably in separate folders, and Premiere has to get the linkage correct.

Neil

[benedictf19896202]

Thank Neil, that did the trick!

I swore I had tried that yesterday before posting my question...obviously I hadn't.

I was in the process of converting them all to mp4 which would have a been a pain to have to do every time. This will be much easier.

Thanks again!

[R Neil Haugen]

Most welcome. Personally, I dislike the cameras that store video and audio as separate files. Had that for a while, it was a royal pain. But that camera had another format that I could work with/accept that was in single-file on the card, video/audio in one file. I used that with that camera.

My BMPCC4K gives up through RAW files, but all formats are single-file video/audio combined. So I'm not working much with split-files now.

But with some cameras, you just don't have the option.

Neil