Premiere CS4 Sont AVCHD m2ts advice

[DiGitAlReePeR]

Hi

I have seen lots of threads and all of them seem to end in misery!!

I have a sont HD camcorder and have installed all the software, i also installed pinnacle 12 and prem cs4 (my software of choice)

I can watch the files in sony AVCHD player and edit them in pinnacle studio 12

BUT when i try to import the m2ts files into premiere i get "File format not supported"

Whats the best way around this, i dont want to have to convert before i import really!!!

Many Thanks

Chris

[racer-x]

Your first mistake was buing an AVCHD camcorder.........now you'll have to deal with it. Lesson 1, always do your homework first.....................

You can try a trial version of Vegas 8, or frameserve via Avisynth and AVSPlugin for Premiere, or use DGAVCDec and convert to a lossless codec like Lagarith.

..........Sorry, you'll get no sympathy from me, I'm a tried a true HDV user all the way.

[DiGitAlReePeR]

ok fair enough boy genious!

Is there anyway to import direct into premier, i dont care about your sypathy or your smuggness!

Also some people dont have £2k to spend on a camcorder!

[Soopafresh]

See if this helps:



Check this Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPBILit71Wg

or this one:

http://www.bestechvideos.com/2008/10/13/adobe-cs-premiere-pro-cs4-working-with-avchd-video

http://blogs.adobe.com/davtechtable/2008/09/intro_to_cs4_and_new_avchd_edi.html

[minidv2dvd]

i don't have a sony avdhd cam but i've imported the samples i've found online into pp cs4 without any problem. like the one on this page - avc-avchd(sony).m2ts

http://mirror05.x264.nl/CruNcher/?dir=.//interoperability_problems

[DiGitAlReePeR]

Hmm still no joy, everyone seems to be able to import direct into cs4 i get "unknown file format"

[DiGitAlReePeR]

should i be installing a codecs or is there a premier cs4 codecx pack on the cd i have not installed or a plugin maybe on the cs4 cd i have not installed because i cant even import avc-avchd(sony).m2ts

[Soopafresh]

I'm guessing there's something missing when you installed CS4. Maybe a checkbox to install additional support files?

[minidv2dvd]

it may be the sony avdhd support was added in the dec08 update. see if you have updated pp cs4 to 4.0.1

[DiGitAlReePeR]

it may be the sony avdhd support was added in the dec08 update. see if you have updated pp cs4 to 4.0.1

Correct, downloaded, installed

Worked First time.

Thank You!

Other than that AVCHD works perfect!

[minidv2dvd]

you're welcome. and have a good new year!

[alad62]

Hey minidv2dvd can you tell me what you did exactly?
I am having the same problem. If you can tell me asap that will
be hightly appreciated. I have trial version of vegas9 and get unknown file format" when trying to import m2tvs.