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  • Convert mov into mts for smaller archives?

    Posted by Tobin Duby on September 18, 2015 at 2:17 pm

    Recently made the switch from MiniDV to SD card. Discovered original mts files are significantly smaller than the mov’s I have to convert them into for editing in FCP.

    Is there a way to convert mov’s back into SMALL mts’s for archiving purposes? WinxDVD converter can do it, but doesn’t reduce the size of the file.

    Kalleheikki Kannisto replied 10 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Kalleheikki Kannisto

    September 21, 2015 at 6:21 pm

    Although this doesn’t have anything to do with Video Copilot: What happened to the original mts files? Why don’t you just archive them?

  • Tobin Duby

    September 21, 2015 at 6:59 pm

    See, that would have been the smart thing to do. But this was my first project after converting from the world of MiniDV, and I didn’t think of keeping the original mts’s. 😛

  • Kalleheikki Kannisto

    September 21, 2015 at 8:37 pm

    Hmm. Maybe just compress them in some other way — ZIP archive or something? (Almost) every conversion reduces footage quality.

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