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Working with video files with Mountain Lion is horrible!

This functionality is horrible. You can't import or delete individual files as you could with previous versions of the OS. Does anyone know of a work around?

iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Posted on Jan 6, 2013 2:40 PM

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Posted on Jan 6, 2013 3:39 PM

That link seems to indicate you can grab a single clip.


The AVCHD implementation in Mountain Lion just puts it all in a package. Right-click on the package and select "show package contents."

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Jan 6, 2013 3:47 PM in response to Snareman

For most people, they just want to import their camera file into iMovie. Picking it apart and breaking the links wasn't particularly useful to them.


Now, if you really know what you are doing, you can still do it. And, if you just want to move your camera files into iMovie, there isn't much of a chance you'll screw up the whole package.

Jan 6, 2013 3:53 PM in response to Barney-15E

Perhaps I'm in the minority doing what I'll call 'more real' video editing for lack of better term. I make have done 10 takes and I know the first 9 were no good and thus have no reason to import them into Premiere Pro or off the card at all. There could have at least been the option when opening in Quicktime to drag or delete individual files from it when you open up that package file. I have been keeping one of my Macbook Pros around just because I hadn't updated it to to Mountain Lion and could still deal with the video files in an easier manner.


Now that I found the Show Package Contents option its a work around that I can deal with.

Jan 6, 2013 6:46 PM in response to Barney-15E

Sorry if I was confusing. Now that I learned the Show Package Contents thing I can pull single clips off. Before I learned that (a few hours ago) all I could do was to import that entire "Private" file into Premiere and that would being all of the clips with it, including the ones I didn't want, and it was very frustrating.

Jan 6, 2013 6:53 PM in response to Snareman

Again, I'm a bit confused. Quicktime Player (hardly "pro") can pull one clip out of that package.

iMovie (not "Pro" but certainly higher level than Quicktime Player) can pull one clip out of that package.

But, Premiere "Pro," which I assume you paid a lot for, can't pull one clip out of that package?


There is absolutely nothing special about a package. It is still a folder hierarchy that the Finder "packages" up into one object. You can navigate into the folder structure from the command line to see that there is nothing special about it. That seems to be a tremendous shortcoming of Premiere that it can't handle such a thing.

Jan 6, 2013 7:00 PM in response to Barney-15E

Ok, having gone into PP and going through its media function where you can import stuff I am able to import 1 clip (there is so much about that program that is untapped, as I think is typical with Adobe stuff). How do you pull 1 clip out with Quicktime?


The functionality that I am looking for is to be able to put the SD card into my computer, be able to navigate to the folder with all of the clips in it and then either selectively import onto my hard drive or delete some of them. Until I learned the Show Contents thing I don't see any way to do it as I could before Mountain Lion where I could simply navigate to that folder. It was a folder back then where as now its the Private file that isn't as functional as the OS treats the entire file as a package instead of a folder.

Jan 6, 2013 7:25 PM in response to Snareman

I guess that's where lots of people have problems moving to a Mac way of doing things.

You want to go to the file and do something with it.


I open an application that is going to help me do something with the content of the file and get the content within the application. The file is just a wrapper around the thing I want to access.

How do you pull 1 clip out with Quicktime?

I might be misunderstanding how you use quicktime player (if you use it at all), but from that link you posted, you open the AVCHD package in the private folder and choose a clip to open. Once open, you can export it to various formats. They are all displayed in a grid. iMovie is the same for importing a clip. I would hope that Premiere has the same import function. Now that we've discussed this more, I don't imagine that is what you were doing at all. You just linked from that article to create a question.


Now, that still leaves deleting the unwanted clips from the card, which I don't have an answer for except that I always do that on the camera as I figure it knows what its prefered file format is. The last thing I want to do is mess up the card so that the camera can't read it.

Working with video files with Mountain Lion is horrible!

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