Hey

So I am just beginning my search for a digital camcorder and I am extremely interested in an HD one with a hard drive. Does anyone know what the file extension is for the videos that get recorded? I want to make sure that the files would work in my copy of Adobe Premiere.

Hi bhelliom,

On Sony's AVCHD cameras, the file extensions are .mt2s after Sony's software uploads them to the computer. While on the camera, I believe the extension is .m2t or something.

Hope this s helpful. Happy editing!

Hey

So I am just beginning my search for a digital camcorder and I am extremely interested in an HD one with a hard drive. Does anyone know what the file extension is for the videos that get recorded? I want to make sure that the files would work in my copy of Adobe Premiere.
I believe the only HD camcorders which records onto a hard drive which MAY edit in Adobe Premiere are the JVC ones. I believe they use an MPEG2 variant, similar to, (but not quite) HDV. Canon, Panasonic, and Sony HD cameras that record to Hard Drive will not edit in Premiere.

Adobe dropped the ball big time with their omission of AVCHD support in the latest versions.

Also, a word of warning. File Extension tells you little about the video format these days. M2ts stands for MPEG 2 Transport Stream. Certainly Premiere handles MPEG 2 video, but this transport stream is really just a container which can contain a variety of different video formats. So the extension doesn't tell you how the video is coded.

Hey

So I am just beginning my search for a digital camcorder and I am extremely interested in an HD one with a hard drive. Does anyone know what the file extension is for the videos that get recorded? I want to make sure that the files would work in my copy of Adobe Premiere.

I would get it from a place where I could return it if editing with its files proved to be a problem.

From all that I read the best quality and editing capability is achieved via miniDV. Especially with HD. However, I have edited AVCHD (Panasonic's Flash memory card version) with Ulead's (uh, Corel's) VideoStudio 11+ with no problems. Just slow.

Good luck.