AVCCAM Restorer: Works GREAT for importing individual MTS files!

Could it be that this only works for Panasonic cameras...?

(Anyway, I don't like this procedure... too complicated.)

yeah good I can import directly now in FCP X my Panasonic SD900' .MTS files.

Thank you

OK I've tried it! It worked for MTS files from my old Canon HFS20 (but these Clips arrive as 1080/25i in FCP X), but not for MTS files from my new SONY HX9V (US model 1080/60p).

Panasonic instructions say it may not work for other manufacturers. It does work for my GH2, but it created the structure PRIVATE/AVCHDL/... which does NOT import into FCP X. I renamed it to AVCHD, and voila!

Worked on my non-sequential .mts files BTW.

Help, ASAP!! I am in a bind on location in India. Arrghhh!

Will you please explain in detail how to rename and restructure like you did? I have a gh2 as well. Filles sitting on my drives and need to improt to FCPX. I Downloaded the AVCCAM Restorer. The rebuild is slightly differnet than my native Gh2 file stucture. YEs, FCPX did not recognize it. I renamed the AVCHD file (once it restored in my directory) from AVCHDL to AVCHD and FCPX doesn't recognize the file. Where did you rename it.

Thanks so much,

The only thing I can think of is to make sure it's in a folder called PRIVATE. If that fails and you're panicking I would manually convert them to ProResHQ with Toast or QuicktimePro...

I renamed (after the restore) AVCHDL to AVCHD that is nested in the PRIVATE folder. No go. This is how you did it?

I am facing Aunsoft or Clipwrap converter it seems!

Thanks again.

I haven't tried Toast, but QuickTimePro doesn't open the .mts files I have.

Renaming the AVCHDL folder doesn't work either.

There's an app on the MacStore called "Camcorder Video Converter" - at about $14 - that seems to do everything.

Can't get it to work for my Sony .MTS files. Does anybody know of an app that will rebuild the structure for Sony .MTS files? I would like to import the files into FCPX and keep the date metadata.

tjwaido wrote:

Can't get it to work for my Sony .MTS files. Does anybody know of an app that will rebuild the structure for Sony .MTS files? I would like to import the files into FCPX and keep the date metadata.

I figured it out using my harddrive and my Sony .MTS files using Panasonic's AVCCAM Restorer V2.3. The .MTS files must be named with five numerals, example 12345.MTS, and placed in the STREAM folder using the folder structre below. I used Automator to rename all the files I put in there sequentially.

HarddriveName

> private

> AVCHD

> BDMV

> STREAM

> (All .MTS files)

Nothing else needs to be listed within the folder structure. I selected "Restore the Specific AVCHD folder" within AVCCAM Restorer. Be sure the folder breadcrums are show as follows for it to work, I got as far as private once, and it didn't work.

Volumes/HarddriveName/private/AVCHD

Once AVCCAM Restorer was complete, I opened the haddrive as an archive and imported into FCPX. I was also able to use subfolders on my harddrive with the file structure within them and these lead folders became my reel names within FCPX.