AC90: Premiere's Auto Combine Causing problems

[denzlite]

So I'm following advice I read somewhere ... since the AC90 breaks up long clips you should copy the whole PRIVATE folder to the HD and then use Premiere to import so you don't get that glitch/gap thing. Inside Premiere I just go to Media Browswer/HD/Footage/AVCHD and wa-la - there is all the footage as if it's contained in one file.

This method is causing tremendous headache in Premiere - taking forever to load frames when moving playback head - terrible playback.

When I go File>Import and drill down to the STREAM folder on my HD to get the various .MTS files - no performance issues. Does this make sense? Any workaround? I'm on a Macbook Pro - awesome specs.

 

[denzlite]

Found this:
Shouldn't this all have been fixed by now. Workaround - make sure you shoot shorter clips? Really?

Known issues


There is a known issue for Adobe Premiere Pro CS6. AVCHD files that are spanned can cause the system to freeze up while scrubbing the software. Also, the audio can sometimes disappear after a set amount of playback.
A spanned file has an extended duration, wherein the camera creates separate video files. These files don't appear to be separate when imported into Adobe Premiere Pro, only if looking at the video files in Finder or Windows Explorer.
There is an update for CS6 - 6.0.4 that resolves the issue. Update CS6 to the latest version. Alternatively, Adobe Premiere Pro CC does not have this issue.
The best workarounds are to make sure that when recording, the video files are short enough that the camera doesn't use the file spanning feature. Also, transcoding the footage to a different format resolves the issue as well.