Mountain Lion AVCHD Content is marked as private

No kidding! I wish jpfeffer would log back on and give you the big green checkmark and 10 points you deserve. I looked through the "More like this" links to this problem, and grimepoch has a better solution than anyone else. Where did you learn to make extremely effective workarounds? Apple needs to offer you a job!🙂

Howdy All

This frustrated the heck out of me too. All I wanted to do was to back my Canon 64Gb inbuilt camera memory to my hard drive, but as you all know ML won't let me see the AVCHD folder anymore.

I found that if I used Get Backup 2, it would see the AVCHD folder within the program no problem, and identifies the sub folders and files as per normal. Better yet, it can see what files I already have in "synchronise" mode, so I'm not having to work out what files are newer than my last backup

Hope this helps...

@TheStich

Beautiful, and I had the solution the whole time! I have Get Backup 2 RE that came bundled with Roxio Toast. I was able to create an image of my SDXC card to my hard drive and access the base AVCHD video with iMovie, Toast, etc without any further post processing.

I had yet to find a single solution to the ML/private issue and reading the SDXC card with the xFAT format.

For those who have Get Backup 2 RE (came with Roxio Toast) an upgrade to the Pro version is available through Belight's web site for $9.95 versus the full $19.95. Regardless, it seems like a deal either way.

@grimepoch

Thanks very much for this. I had to use the version Benja_d had modified to get my Sony camera with HDD (not card) to work.

Hi All,

Ok, here is my quick 'hack', based on 'grimepoch's script.

Open Automater and create a Service.

Drag the Run AppleScript action to the list.

Paste this script:

on run {input, parameters}

repeat with i in (input)

tell application "Finder"

open folder ((i as text) & "AVCHD:BDMV:STREAM")

end tell

end repeat

return input

end run

Set the option to:

Servive receives selected: files and folders

in: Finder

Save, I named it Open AVCHD Folder.

Now, you can right-click the Private folder on the card, and select Open AVCHD Folder... :-)

That advice you gave worked wonderfully. However, I'm surprised that Apple would incorporate such a senseless manner of file type compatibility. I'm sure Apple could've done this differently.

This is so ******* me off! C'mon Apple. Your fix broke it.

@grimepoch Thank you so much for the script !! Lifesaver !

@jakob and @grimepoch

Thank you very much for the script!!

It works fine!!

Great guys!

Hey Guys,

I Just noticed this on a new Lion machine as welll... :-(

BUT.. recently I've been copying just the STREAM folder from my camera media with the .mts files and I am able to see and use all the files in Lion. So, if you don't need the folder sturcture and asociated metadata - there ya go!

Hi everyone. I just noticed this behaviour today, and while I too don't like how I can only open one video at a time, let me give you a little example of why this is a GOOD thing, at least Apple thinks so.

I work at a broadcast school that shoots on Panasonics that record to AVCHD. We use Final Cut Pro 7, so my students NEED to Log and Transfer from the original folder structure, or L&T won't work. Every now and then I get a student who copies just the Clips folder off the card, erases their SD card, and wonders why FCP can't L&T just the MTS files. Heck, just two days ago I had an assistant instructor give a student wrong information about working with their SD card.

This is textbook Apple protecting us from ourselves. Just like with the iTunes, iPhoto, and FCP X and now OS X User libraries, all the contents are still there, just hidden a level so that the people who don't know what they're doing, aka my students, don't mess things up. If our iMacs were on ML, my students would ONLY be able to copy everything, so no more only MTS files.

I'm not saying this is right by Apple, I would be angry too if I had a workflow that got messed up, but hopefully this adds a little context to why Apple probably made this change.

Thanks, Brian, for the hypothesis on Apple's way of doing things. The paternalism is enough to drive a person back to Windows.

I just wish Apple would include an option of "advanced" settings for users who have outgrown the playpen and prefer to organize their own files.

Why not just right-click on the Package and "Show Package Contents," like every other package on the OS? Not sure why that is so difficult.

Since all of the disks come up as "NO NAME", you can create an alias to the Stream folder and put it somewhere in you Home or drag it to the dock. Whenever you have a card inserted, you can access the Stream folder from the Alias or the Dock.

You could do the same with the other folders in BDMV if you need to get to those, regularly.

Brian, I use Final Cut 7, I actually posted this issue on a new thread yesterday.

I take my cards and empty the entire card onto files on my external, then when I need to L&T, I can get to those files. Now I cannot because the folders are not there, just the avchd-QT. How are you logging and transferring now? I spent an entire day yesterday dealing with this, after upgrading to ML in the morning. I lost a whole day because I cannot get to my BMVD folders to L&T. It doesn't matter if I try it off the previous copied files or a fresh recorded card, same thing. So here I am again, new day and not getting any work done because I can't L&T. I produce a tv program for our church and that is a time schedule I have to stay ahead of (we have a different show each week), now I can't even get anything done.

Please tell me how I can L&T now. There has to be a way. I was reading last night about how to go back to Snow Leopard so I can do my job again. I really don't want to go that route.

thank you for any help.