Import Continus Clips into Premiere CS4

Phil B

Phil B

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Hello everyone... I just purchased a few of these cameras and shot with them for the first time this weekend. I just used one as an extra camera to kind of get use to it. I know that since the memory on the SD Cards is FAT32 that you have the 4gb limit and the clips are split. So how do I edit those in Premiere CS4 without having a few missing frames? Currently we shoot with Sony HDV Cameras and along with shooting to tape we also shoot to CF Cards with a Sony recorder, and we have the same 4gb limit obviously. Sony has a utility that we use to transfer the clips from the CF Card to my HDD and it stitches the clips back together seamlessly. I am assuming that Panasonic has something similar but I cannot find it anywhere.

This is how I have tried to get it to work so far. I just copied the "PRIVATE" folder from the SD Card onto my HDD and then used Premiere's Media Browser to import the clips. I thought that maybe Premiere would stitch them together since it supports AVCHD and there is no other way to capture except on a SD card which is always going to have the 4gb limit. So it did not combine the clips so I just figured that I could drop them on the timeline and but them up and it would work, but I am seeing a very small glitch and each split.

Any help with this would be great. We mostly shoot weddings and there will be quite a few times where we will hit that 4gb limit.

Have a great day...

Phil
 
Does no one else in here hit the 4gb limit? There has to be something from Panasonic somewhere that I am missing to do this ...

Thanks
Phil
 
Well I guess glitch is not the right word, but missing info...

I too am on a PC
XP Pro 64bit
Intel Core 2 Quad 2.5GHz
4GB of RAM

I know that is not the heftiest PC out there but it works well, and this seems to be the only problem that I am having. If I just drop clip 001 into the timeline and then drop clip 002 directly behind it there is an obvious stutter at the cut.

So no apps to stich them together???

Phil
 
I just used the copy command and it worked with no stutter. Joined 3 long clips together into one. There is a thread on it here but I couldn't find it.
From a dos prompt...
change directory to the root folder of where your files are.....
for instance: F:\Video>
Then type F:\Video>copy /b 00001.m2ts + 00002.m2ts newname.m2ts
That would join 00001 and 00002 into one file that you just named.
 
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