.mts clip join tool

Premiere Pro CS5 will "merge" the clips automatically for us. :)

Lets say that you have three clips that contains one long shoot. Import any three of them and it will come in as one clip, with the three clips "merged" together, ready to use without any workarounds.

The editing experience in CS5 with native AVCHD footage is fantastic compared to CS4 thanks to the Mercury Playback Engine and the fact that CS5 is 64-bit, with or without a certified CUDA-graphic card.
And, in CS5 there are no more annoying frames that appear sometimes (often) at cut points in CS4. Btw, the color space for AVCHD is Rec 709 in CS5 and that is not the case with CS4 which make colors off in CS4.

/Roger
 
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Averdahl said:
.....The editing experience in CS5 with native AVCHD footage is fantastic compared to CS4 thanks to the Mercury Playback Engine and the fact that CS5 is 64-bit, with or without a certified CUDA-graphic card. /Roger
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hmmmmm native editing in adobe? i sort of doubt it. compressed maybe but native is a hard task for even the biggie editors like symphony or adrenalin even though they do do it.
 
I think with CS5 and the big mofo graphics card, Premiere will now do native editing (not like CS4). Edius 5.5 (or Neo 2.5) certainly does it without the big graphics card. AVCHD is not the big editing monster is once was.
 
pjsssss said:
....AVCHD is not the big editing monster is once was.
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other than HDD space. whew does it eat the space. sort of in the direction of P2 dvc pro type space. for me i did NOT see a gain going to AVCHD and comparative to HDV which is as easy as pie on our avid and fcp systems, the images just were not there. AVCHD was like a regular DV plus picture. maybe had we used a different camera the images would have been cleaner but on the 150 with the 540 pixel imager we just didn't see it beside our higher rez'd imager HDV camera.

has anyone else done any comparisons and seen this?
 
Just to make sure everyone having problems with this tool realize what it is for.

It is for joining split files created from one long continuous shoot. (fat32 4gb limit)

This tool is not for joining various AVCHD files together. You will not get acceptable results.

Some editors join the clips just fine, some don't. This tool does.
 
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First of all, thanks again Pailes. I know this took some of your valuable time to put together.

I tried this last night by shooting a 2 hour continuous shot. When I imported the unmerged files into Vegas, they had that little glitch that they always have at the seam. After merging the files with Pailes' merging prgram, the glitch seems to be gone and it appears that they are joined seamlessly. I haven't yet tried it with audio, etc, but so far so good.

Maybe others can run some tests as well

Thanks again!
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Did you use the Vegas Device Explorer to import your clips? If not, try it. The Vegas Device Explorer automatically concatenates clips that were split in the camera due to 4GB limit. Another nice feature of Device Exploer is if you import files from more than one SDHC card, like-named MTS files from the multiple card will be given unique names upon import which is important if you are using multiple cards for a single Vegas project.

I haven't had any problem using this in any of the Vegas 9 versions.
 
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Hey, Welcome Forum

just got my new system up and running with CS5! Got the video playback running on Mercury, works like a charm. The only issue I have is that I can't get CS5 to import audio from my .mts file! It just doesn't see any audio on the file! (yet, the audio is there - runs fine with VLC player).

Anyone having this issue with CS5?
My clip is a .mts recorded with a panasonic hmc151.
If anyone know's what could be the issue, I would appreciate very much any help :)
 
I've been doing native avchd editing since cs4 with no problem, 2 or 3 clips simultaneously with realtime playback. Cs5 only gets better.

Let me retract, in CS5 I can't play a avchd clip with a title whereas in CS4 I could. Just for the record, I'm using the trial version.
 
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high,

iam the new one here.
i downlaod the MTS Merger 1.0.0.2 from #1

is this still the newest version?

if i open the mtsmerger, that show me the 1.0 from 2009

is this correct?

thank you
 
Thanks you for making such a tool, very very easy-to-use. I have downloaded and tried it. I have spent 6 minutes on merging my 3 mts files (total 5 minutes) from tm700, and the merged mts can play with VLC, but audio goes 5 seconds faster than video, and the video pictures are always jerky. That's my test result. For merging mts file, i think many free software in the market can do it, but not fine, like tsmuxer, tsSplitter, tsRemux, etc. Some software can really do it, but you have to buy it, like Avid, Corel, Ulead, and Final Mate. So i hope you can give us a big surprise on mts merging, for we really need it.
 
Note that: This tool is only for joining files which have been split in the HMC due to 4gb file size limit.
Joining other files can make unexpectedly results!!!
 
Does this work for AVI files as well? Thnx Pailes, great job to write this clever utility :cheesy:
 
Hi there,

Thanks very much for your efforts in sharing such a simple but useful tool.
I have ever used the freeware of TSmuxer, but I always were frustrated with its video & audio out of sync problem.
Thanks again for your sharing, pailes.
 
Paile if you're still around after all these years, how difficult would it be to write a utility to read in a corrupted AVCHD (MTS) video file add finalization to it so that it can be usable.
My video clip was corrupted due to a power failure to the camera. All the recording is still there on the card but unreadable by standard techniques.
I've tried several data recovery tools and none of them address the issue of finalization of a video file.
I have a tool that will do this function for AVI files but haven't seen one yet for High Def.
 
Follow up on my file corruption problem. Panasonic has a little known restore/recovery program that fixed all of the problems I had. It's a real life saver.
 
Hi Pailes:

I just want to say "thanks"!!! This was so simple I couldn't believe it. I don't understand why it has taken so long for Avid to bring a solution to Media Composer. Again thanks for this tool.
 
I know you keep getting this, but thanks. It's amazing to me that the camera mfg's or NLE software providers haven't provided this. I'm using Adobe Premiere Pro, editing from 2 AGHMC40's. I didn't realize this problem until I started filming our church services. Thanks again for posting this fix. It will be enjoyed for years to come.
 
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