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TheMacBookPro

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May 9, 2008
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Hi all,

I was lent an AVCHD camcorder by a friend on which I recorded several hundred short .mts clips.

Stupidly I just copied all the files (file structure and all) off its internal hard disk, thinking iMovie would be able to see the entire file structure, think it's a camera and returned the cam to him.

Well it obviously doesn't and how I have to convert all the mts files to a format iMovie understands.

I've already tried creating a dmg file and mounting that but iMovie still doesn't see it as a camera. No idea why (some people have said that as long as you have the entire file structure it should... it doesn't).

So all I have to do now is convert em. Handbrake + the Apple TV preset does that fine. The only problem is, I have several hundred titles under the source folder (STREAM) and need to convert them all.

I would just manually add them to a queue if it were just several clips, but I have 363 clips and it would take me eons to add all of them into the Handbrake queue.

So my question is: is there any way to automatically add all the clips into the queue, either via an AppleScript or something like that or a function in the program I'm missing?

Thank you!
 
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