Bob, If that is how the guys at Panasonic expect you to work, they should be locked up. With a Sony camera you get a program for copying the clips to the computer. When you copy a long clip that is broken up into sections the individual short clips are AUTOMATICALLY stitched without loss of frames or any other problem. You better tell Panasonic to do the same - this is 2011. This would be a good enough reason for me not to buy a Panasonic camera. Uwe
> I recently made the switch to HD, with Panasonic AVCHD camcorders, and > was immediately faced with the issue of 4GB limits to recorded clips. > > When I assembled consecutive clips in Premiere CS5, there was a > half-second loss of audio and a three-frame freeze of the video. > > Miraculously, I finally reached someone at Panasonic pro/broadcast > tech. support who provided me with this solution. It works perfectly! > But it does require a little familiarity with the Windows command > line. If you don't want to deal with that, scroll down and I'll > describe another way that I gradually figured out. > > I hope this saves someone the major frustrations I went through, > Bob > > Symptom: > Due to FAT32 limitation of the SD card file system, recordings made in > the camera are limited to 4GB file size. > To combine the clips into one file and eliminate the loss of audio > and/or video frames audio at the end of the clips follow the procedure > below. > > Solution: > Follow the procedure listed below to combine recorded clips into one > complete clip. > 1)Press WIN+R > 2)Type cmd and press Enter. > 3)Navigate to the folder where the files are located (STREAM Folder). > 4) Type Command: > "copy /b 00000.mts+00001.mts+00003.mts v:\CompleteClip.mts" > (00000.mts,00001.mts, etc are the clips you wish to combine) (The > destination file in the example is v:\CompleteClip.mts, you can change > this to anything you want) > 5)Press Enter > 6)Wait until it is done. (It takes several minutes to complete). > > Detailed Steps: > The following assumes drive "V" is the destination video work drive, > and the source is drive "F". > Also the destination file will be named, "cam1.m2t". Type the command, > without the quotes, so "command" is simply typed as command. > > Important Note: The destination drive (V:) must be a non-FAT32 file > format, such as NTFS. > > Regards, > Panasonic Solutions Company > Unit of Panasonic Corporation of North America > Technical Support Center (USA) > [email protected] <mailto:pbtscservice%40us.panasonic.com> > > Here's another way if you want to avoid dealing with command/DOS prompt: > > Use the Media Broswer in CS5 (maybe CS4 too) to import the entire > PRIVATE folder from the Panasonic camcorder. Then click on it, and > Premiere will put the files together seamlessly. Easy, no? Just be > sure to import using the Media Browser rather than importing files > directly to the Project panel. > [One of my camcorders, the Panasonic HDC-TM700, doesn't have a PRIVATE > folder if I record to its built-in memory. In this case, I create a > PRIVATE folder and copy all the camcorder's other folders to it. The > file structure for video recorded to SD cards, either with this camera > or my AG-HMC80, begins with a PRIVATE folder.] > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
