I plan to 'create Proxies' upon importing that I can edit with, so would like to maintain the Highest Quality from my AVCHD files for relinking once finished editing. Premiere is just letting you know it didn't import (use) every file in the directory. In the folders you copied from your camera media, the AVCHD standard creates a lot of sidecar files that may or may not be used by a particular edit system. When this is done, you may (likely will) see a dialog box saying some files could not be imported - with a list- just click OK. Premiere will go through the folders and import all the video files. Open Premiere and using the Media Browser, navigate to the top level of the folders you just copied and choose import. The best practice way of doing so would be to copy the complete contents of your media card to an (fast) external drive, maintaining all files and all file structures. If you have a fairly modern and fairly robust computer, you should be able to edit these files natively without conversion or problems.

I understand Premiere does not like this type of file? I recently shot a bunch of footage on Cannon XA-10 cameras and have AVCHD files. I've heard Pro Res is higher quality than H.264, but if my AVCHD file says H.264 when I open it in Quicktime does this mean it cannot be 'upgraded' to Pro Res? Is there a reason the camera recorded in H.264 and not a higher quality? In the XA-10 camera I only have the option to control the Mbps and frame rate ~ curious if anyone has any tips on ensuring I'm recording in the highest quality for this camera? 'Rewrap' (What does this mean?) 'Custom' ? I have the 'Edit Ready' program for converting the AVCHD clips, but am unsure what option to choose after importing the AVCHD file. If Premiere does not like AVCHD files, what can I convert my AVCHD files to to maintain Highest Quality? I plan to 'create Proxies' upon importing that I can edit with, so would like to maintain the Highest Quality from my AVCHD files for relinking once finished editing. In the Cannon XA-10 cameras my settings for recording were: (PF30 framerate) & (MXP High Quality 24Mbps). I understand Premiere does not like this type of file? When I open the AVCHD clips in Quicktime my settings are: H.264, 1920X1080 29.97FPS, 24Mbit/s.

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