Media Management Tools for dealing with MTS files for Mac OS

[j1clark@ucsd.edu]

Since long before time began I've been using a program call iView to 'manage' media, well at least 'view' and save catalogs... I consider it to be far superior to Bridge.

But several things have happened in the last 10 or so years... one, the company got bought up by Microsoft, and disappeared. Further, since it was a PowerPC app, I've just been lucky enough that Intel Mac OS has a PPC emulator enough that it works... but there are issues...

Anyway, what do people use to manage their media, especially in the case of MTS files. The only tool I have at the moment to view MTS directly outside of the NLE, is VLC which is reasonably good for simply viewing, it doesn't put up a page of media, with thumbnails, and view-by-clicking that would be useful.

And speaking of Bridge... CS5 Bridge still doesn't know what to do with MTS files... (Does CS 5.5 Bridge do better???)

Further, is there any tool that looks in more of the BDMV directory structure and uses the information found in CLIPINF folder that relates to the MTS files found in STREAM...

Thanks.

 

[AdrianF]

I've been looking for a good solution to this too, since a bit after time began. There was a plug in being developed some time ago for Lightroom, but I'm not sure it ever went anywhere. For now I'm just keeping track of transcoded files with Bridge and using text files in a master dated folders to keep a track of what each Private folder contains. The whole naming convention of the files doesn't really help either. I'd love to know what others are doing.