AVC HD / .MTS files conversion problems

[Daniel Vinoly]

Might sound silly, but did you try accessing the AVCHD camera (or files) using iMovie?
iMovie will see the files (and show thumbnails) and allow transfer the M2T files full size to Apple Intermediate codec. Then they can be easily converted to Pro Res using Compressor. I tried ClipWrap but I guess I’m getting better results doing it like this.

[Ebba Madison]

Hi,saw your question by chance. The files you downloaded from Panasonic camera is in the format of .mts, then I guess it must be a AVCHD camcorder. Factually, the latest version of FCP is able to work with this format as long as you connect the camera directly with your Mac. Since you just have the copied files, then try to use Pavtube video converter to transcode the .mts files into QuickTime format, I suppose in that way, the FCP is capable of recognizing them without troubles.I’m new here in this forum, but sincerely hope my info will be of some help for you.

[Daniel Vinoly]

Thanks (and sorry for the delay answering). Yes, FCP sees the camera. My mistake was to try Log&Capture, when I should have used Log&Transfer. All is good.

[Celine Oudin]

Hello,

I tried to import my MTS files into iMovie, but the program shows them in the box, but they’re all greyed and you can’t select them, the program says it does not recognize them.
So what should I do ? I have ONLY raw MTS files on DVDs, I cannot import them as is in FCP 7 and in iMovie.
I have acquired Xilisoft HD Video Converter for Mac, which converts MTS files, but ProRes is not one option of output format. I am not very familiar with output formats and I need this footage’s original quality to be preserved as much as possible, the edited project is to be screened.
What output format should I use ?

Thank you for you suggestions

[Celine Oudin]

Thank you for your response, in the meantime I asked the same question to another forum and I downloaded a program called movieconverter studio, and it works. It is free for individual conversions, and you pay 20 euros (French-made program, settable in English) to access the batch conversion feature. It works really well, what a relief.

Thank you again, I hope our posts will help others with the same problem. 😉

[Joseph Flynn]

I have been trying to re-wrap some footage that I shot in Haiti a few weeks ago, using ‘ClipWrap’. It outputs great, loss-less files, except for the massive amounts of artifacting. The origianl files have ZERO artifacts in them; so it is very odd to me that after ClipWrap outputs them, they look horrible.

I am using the ‘rewrap’ option.

[Anise Lalanne]

Hi all,

I’m using a Panasonic HMC40 and trying to download its files into my Mac OS X 10.5.6.
Problem is I’ve never used ‘mts’ codecs before and iMovie and Quicktime don’t recognize it at all. I’d like to stay out of the Apple Final Cut Pro/Express systems, because rendering each file before exporting it uses up too much of my hard disk space- does anyone know about anything quicker?
Basically, is there a way to convert ‘mts’ formats into something more manageable- .mov/ mp4- while staying in true HD?
I don’t care much about audio loss. But I would like to find a quick and simple way to visualize and edit my project. Is the VLC Media Player any good?
Any help would be really appreciated.

Thanks,
Anise

[Anthony l. Fisher]

I am having the same problems listed above. I used a Kingston Class 10 SDHC card on a Pansonic AG-HMC 150.

Previously, I’ve tried to use Clipwrap to recover the MTS files and convert them to .mov files, which worked once before, but now it won’t.

Soopafresh, you threw out a few recommendations, but it’s not clear to me was the one that solved bushranger’s problem.

This is a very important interview file for a documentary, it runs about 29 minutes, but I have only been able to convert the first 7 minutes.

Can someone please help?

[Toby De jong]

excellent that works great but where the the new ProRes files go ?

Thanks

[Edgar Metro]

Mpeg streamclip does not seem to support mts files, is there anything I can do