Transcode with 5DtoRGB before rendering your edit (replacing footage) or before importing to edit.

No more rain.

I'd just transcode the whole thing and then free up the space once you're done. The tool I always use for that sort of thing doesn't read MTS directly (QTPro Player) or does with an addon so bad I finally got rid of it so that I wouldn't actually make the mistake of ever playing MTS with the QT Player again.

5DtoRGB is currently the only tool I trust to not muck up camera-raw MTS files. Sorry.

you can split your mts file into various segments of any predefined length, for example (see screen shot 1) 9 minutes split every 15 seconds splits your original file into 36 new files, they will be split as mt2s, but you can just rename them mts. Use tsMuxerGUI if your on a mac to do this. you can also join back sequential clips (2nd screen shot) using the same program if you need some sections to be longer than your predefined split length.

all this is easy if you preview your master clip and roughly decide what parts you'll be using. no need for huge files when up converting

I can't belive how many people considered @LPowell's amazing patch Flowmotion to be a problem, but it is obviously Premiere's developing team who can be blamed for digital rain. I hope you all Premiere users guys contact their support and report the digital rain problem? It is clearly an issue to be fixed.

@tetakpatak: Myself amongst them. I did mention at the time I'm seeing a semblance of digital rain even with stock firmware (but I only tested a well lit scene). I have trained my eyes since to see the rain in any lighting - it's still there if you know what to look for.

The problem apparently lies only indirectly with CS6 - someone else on this forum investigated and discovered it's a MainConcept decoder fault; he couldn't find a way to override DirectShow decoder weightness - so CS6 is stuck with it.

They (MainConcept) will fix it eventually and it will make its way to Adobe...it is interesting though that not ALL patches have this problem; for example Valkyrie 1.3 decodes perfectly well - I haven't tried anything else.

@BurnetRhoades yeah, the .mov wouldn't load into Premiere (I think? It wouldn't play even in QT but can't remember if I tried loading it into the sequence, damn), and the Avid .avi registered as only an audio track, no video included, even tho I could watch it in a player. Could some of my issues be to do with Premiere still being in Trial mode? I've only just installed more codecs from K-Lite (changed my laptop since I was last editing video...) so that may have been part of the problem. I will try again and see if Premiere will take the clip regardless of my players being able to show me it. Cheers

@eyefi thanks for the info and links. Gonna split the file first as it is 1GB and slowing all attempts down! Edit: TSmuxer just flashes a command prompt for a millisecond & disappears (in Win7), not sure why but I can't use it.

@radikalfilm If I just download CS5.5 will that be a quick fix? I don't have loads of time on this.

here you can find the last version, the comments section seems to indicate their using win7: http://www.videohelp.com/tools/tsMuxeR

I have been using FlowMotion for several months and Premiere Pro CS6 exclusively for a long term project. I have shot in all kinds of lighting situations - extremely low light and intensely bright light - and have never experience this "digital rain" problem. There are so many variables involved (not just the hack and editing software), it is silly to lay blame on any one thing without researching it further. There's been so much alarm in several posts that I find quite ridiculous.

@DouglasHorn I've used Apocalypse Now Boom version 1 and Apocalypse Now Intravenus Version 1 in Premiere CS6 (Windows) and haven't had any issues with digital rain. FM has been problematic for some in CS6. I've also used the recently released trials 3 and 4 of the Moon setting, without any digital rain. Moon may be the closest setting to FM in terms of look. I believe @lpowell has been looking into this, so perhaps he can chime in here with his thoughts as I'm sure he'll know best. Most people use FM 2.02 without any issues, but a few have been hit with the "rain" in CS6.

It's true. Transcoding is the answer and solution that allows you to keep everything the same about how you work (particularly setting choice). But if you despise transcoding, I think some people are reverting back to CS5.5 and having success. This my allow you to keep a favorite setting, if CS6 isn't working with it.

@BurnetRhoades Interesting what you said re CS6 transcoding MTS to RGB poorly. I'm not as experienced...so does this mean CS6 tends to make the colors less accurate from MTS that are simply dragged into timeline, versus using 5DtoRGB to transcode MTS files and then bring in to CS6?

Luckily everything I'm exporting is looking good for me so far.I use CS6, but I'm good so far. Will do a DCP test soon and that should cover all possible screens/audience experiences. Thanks for heads up though. Always good to maximize quality all the way thru pipeline.

@matt_gh2 Are you rendering straight out of Premiere or are you side-loading into AE and rendering there from a float timeline?

CS6 Premiere seems to fair better than rendering in AE. I just never render anything out of Premiere but audio so I can't personally confirm. I always render out of AE, I just prefer the grading tools there and even for titles I don't like the way they work in Premiere. Plus, now that we can do not only floating point but linear-light floating point, I'm all about that, doing old school optical style stuff that always had to be "faked" in previous versions.

@BurnetRhoades @saltherring Actually no, MainConcept has to fix it, as it's their decoder. Adobe links to their libraries (hardcoded it seems, as it doesn't behave like a proper DirectShow decoder). The fix will trickle down...eventually, but first Adobe has to take this issue up with MainConcept.

I've seen the rain even with the stock firmware, and yes there are patches that decode without the rain.