AVC HD / .MTS files conversion problems

[Rafael Amador]

Hi Martin,
Have you tried with MPEGStreamclip?
Free from the Internet.
rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com

[Jamie Pickell]

If you have Toast 9, you can use it to transcode the .MTS file into any codec installed on your system.

Jamie
OX 10.5.5
FCP 6.04
Dual 3.2 Quad Core
XRaid
Kona 3

[Martin Phillips]

Thanks for the responses. MPEG Streamclip doesn’t recognize the files. Toast 10 does do the conversion, but there is a quality hit again.

Am just experimenting with a free program from Grass Valley called AVCHD2HQ – this is giving me an AVI which doesn’t have the colour pulsing, then outputting through Procoder. This seems to work and keeps the quality, although you can’t batch encode. But then you can’t have everything can you?!

Martin.

[Nicolai Berthelsen]

Hi
Im having the same problem. Actually i have several :o)
When playing mts files in Toast Player i have the same pulsing colors. I thought that maybe it was beause the player was not good enough ?
But another problem i have is trying to convert the mts files to something that could be imported to TCP 6.0.5. I have dragged and dropped the mts files from the camera (sony HDR SR-11) to my external hard disk. Now i want to import them to FCP but this is not possible. So the second best would be to convert the files to some other format without losing too much quality. This format could be apple pro res 422. But when i do this with Toast the files have some strange lines all over the clip. I think it has something to do with interlaced or deinterlaced but i have not solved this problem yet. Can somebody help me with the settings in Toast 9 ??????
Thank you very much if somebody can help me with this problem.
Nicolai

[Nicolai Berthelsen]

HI
I have all problems ass well with the mts files.
When playing i toast 9 and 10 the pulsing white balance or whatever it is.
If you want to drag your mts files to an exernal harddisk you have to drag the folder AVCHD and all the subfolders from the camera. Then you import by LOG AND TRANSFER and point to youre AVCHD folder. Then FCP converts the files to Apple Pro Res files for further editing.
I found out too late and have already dragged a lot of mts files to external hard disk. Now i need to convert these files. Using Toast 9 and the setting DVCPRO 50i works OK but not satisfactory. Allthoug in Toast 10 this setting is very nice and almost without loss of quality. BUT in Toast 10 all audio is out off sync approx 10 frames. Can anyone recommend software for no loss quality convertion of mts files to Apple Pro Res ???????? THANK YOU VERY MUCH IF SO………

[Ari Green]

>>If you want to drag your mts files to an exernal harddisk you have to drag the folder AVCHD and all the subfolders from the camera. Then you import by LOG AND TRANSFER and point to youre AVCHD folder. Then FCP converts the files to Apple Pro Res files for further editing.

okay….. thanks for that. clears up a few things for me. now what to do if you copied over just the “stream” folder from the card and no longer have the AVCHD folder..?!!

thanks for any help.

[Michael Pye]

I have experienced a similar problem, courtesy of a member of my film crew who copied over the raw .mts file stream without the directory files (hence FCP Log and Transfer cannot recognise them).

To the rescue however is a program called ClipWrap, which costs $50 – half the price of Toast – and offers transcoding to Prores 422, AIC, DV or DVProHD. Alternatively – and far more attractively – it can do ‘wrapping’, which losslessly reconfigures the original .mts as a quicktime movie.

Hope this helps.

Macbook Pro 15″, 2.53GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB 1067 MHz DDR3, Nvidia GeForce 9600M GT; OS X 10.5.8, Final Cut Pro 6.0.6

[Michael Pye]

As a brief addition to the above, I should mention that the ‘wrapped’ files do have a tendency to ‘jerk’ – although this may be because I am running a dual-core machine. The Prores output however, looks fine.
Michael

Macbook Pro 15″, 2.53GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB 1067 MHz DDR3, Nvidia GeForce 9600M GT; OS X 10.5.8, Final Cut Pro 6.0.6

[Michael Pye]

… and finally as an explanation of the above, please read below a response from one of the software developers at ClipWrap.

“The rewrap option is lossless in the sense it ads no additional loss – your camera has already compressed the image into a low bitrate format, we simply wrap it in a QT movie so quicktime can play it back. Any other option is going to transcode the image – ie, decompress it and then re-compress it in another format. Prores is much less efficient with disk space – it takes much more space to encode the same image – the trade off is higher bitrates for lower cpu usage.”

Macbook Pro 15″, 2.53GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB 1067 MHz DDR3, Nvidia GeForce 9600M GT; OS X 10.5.8, Final Cut Pro 6.0.6

[Jonathan Palmer]

Same problem- found this great little app that made my day better.

https://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/video/movieconverterstudio.html