Want Thumbnails With Sony SR11

papaterry wrote on 11/14/2008, 1:18 PM
Before going HD with SR1 and now SR11, I enjoyed seeing thumbnails for my .avi clips in Windows Explorer. Now all I see is Nero Show Time icon, my default player, and these ridiculous unrecognizable strings of numbers - such as 20080807193501 (the date and time all nicely jammed together w/o spaces or dashes) . You don't know what the heck they are unless you open the file or open Pict Motion Browser which shows the first scene of each clip in the overview window. Does anyone have a media player that produces thumbnails for .m2ts files for you when you open a folder of clips in Win Explorer?

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tcbetka wrote on 11/14/2008, 1:30 PM
Good question! I've had the same issue here, on both XP Pro 32-bit and Vista 64-bit OS. If you figure it out, please let me know.

I don't know who in the heck came up with the default file naming system for the SR11 (I presume the SR12 is the same way), but I think they were dropped on their head a few times too many as a child. I think 14 digits (eg; 20081004211258.m2ts) is a bit excessive. I realize it's the date & time thing, but can't that be embedded into the file as metadata?

TB
papaterry wrote on 11/14/2008, 3:17 PM
Exactly, TB. Yes, same camera except the SR12 is 120 gig and a couple hundred bucks more; the SR11 is 60 gig. But I'd happily give the Sony-ites another drop on the head for their apparent disconcern with making things user friendly. I sure hope someone has a solution for us on this very basic problem. By the by, TB, I suppose you know that 12.1 is out for Studio Ultimate vers 12? Playback and performance is much improved for AVChd and you have the option of burning an AVCHD disc to standard disc. Why in the heck doesn't Vegas offer that?! Who wants to pay 15 to 20 bucks for a Blu Ray disc and then put all your eggs in one big basket? I think you have Studio and have referred to it in other posts?

PT
tcbetka wrote on 11/14/2008, 4:15 PM
No, I don't have Studio Ultimate. I do all of my work in Vegas. But I will agree that it'll be nice when AVCHD performance is improved, so you don't have to do a bunch of file conversion tricks to use the footage on the timeline. I love my SR11 though--fantastic unit in my opinion, even though you have to deal with the AVCHD nasties...

TB