Importing .mts AVCHD video into Premiere Pro CS5.5, HELP!

[Just4School]

Hello,

I am new on Adobe forums and I nedd a question answered.

I have seen that there is no definite answer on how to import .mts files from my Canon Vixia HFR20 to Premiere Pro CS5.5.

I get "The file has an unsupported compression type" message. For now I convert the videos to .AVI but i would why would I continuosly convert them?

I bought the camera mainly for the HD, so help soon would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in Advance,

Ethan

P.S: I have a PC to put that in mind...

[Eadig]

Thanks, dragging a .mts file from the Media Browser onto the Timeframe went with a bang. The video now displays in the Program monitor.

One thing though is that Export does not list the .mts format. Is there a way to retain the same .mts format or other format that maintains the 60 frames/second frame rate?

[Path 88 Productions]

Good tip to find for a newbie.  I can confirm that using the media browser sorted my issues as well.

[Guest]

Me too , it's useful to newbie, first, I tried the entire copy folder thing, then it failed with some unknown problems, luckily , have tried the browser, then it worked,and at the same time, I used one free app to help me if the browser didn't crack correctly.

[forestmj]

Hello How do I find the interface?  I have PP2 open and I do not see it anywhere

[Jeff Bellune]

Are you really using Premiere Pro *2* ?  If so, there's no way it can import or edit AVCHD.  And there's no Media Browser in that version, either.  To work with AVCHD footage you'll need to upgrade to the CC version.

Cheers,

Jeff

[anim84792502]

This worked for me, and is a very quick solution from Adobe: Importing AVCHD media into Premiere Pro on Mac OS X v10.8 (Mountain Lion) | Premiere Pro work area

[sunderlandgreen201503]

I would suggest sourcing the higher level files if possible, and retaining the original file structure.

If you can't source them, at least bring in what you have via Media Browser. Sometimes where a single MTS take has spanned across two clips Premiere will import two files into the project that are the same exactly. Just double check they are they same and you could remove one if it bothered you.

Editing with MTS and movs will be fine, however to make Premiere work as smoothly as possible be sure to set your editing timeline to the format that the majority of the clips are in. For example, if 90% of the media is MOVS then grab one of the mov clips from the project bin and drop it onto the 'new sequence' button in you project panel and a new sequence will be created that will be set for optimized editing of MOVS.

[Al_Iannucci]

Not sure if this is too little too late but I saw that this thread still gets a lot of views. With most Canon cameras the easiest thing to do is use the Data Import Utility that the camera came with. Connect the camera to the computer and run the utility to automatically import the AVCHD (as .mts). Not only does it do it for you but if you have a camera that breaks longer scenes into small bits it will "stitch" them together while importing. Then just bring the .mts file into Premiere. Hope this helps.

Just a note too the Utility is now hosted by Pixela in case you dont have the cd and search the web to download it.

[WolCarlos]

Adobe Premiere 2018 supports .MTS files.

To avoid problems with the RAM you have to remove the files you want to put on premier from sub-sub-sub-folders, example:

YES: Movie.mts ----> move ------> to D: \ Movie \

NO: Movie.mts ----> move ------> to D: \ Movie \ SD \ File \ local \ Movie file \ HD \ because all these folders \