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MTS file format
Hi folks
I have got a simple video editing job however the raw footage I have received is MTS format files shot by Canon.Even though I have handled a few video editing jobs in past, however, this is the first time that I have received source footage in this format.
When I imported one of the files in Premiere I noticed that there is some pixelation sort of things where objects or characters are moving slightly fast, like when a person is standing still and talking it is all fine but when he is waving hand to the camera, there is some kind of image distortion (not sure I am using the right words to describe it).
Before writing this post, I did a little bit of search in this forum but whatever posts I looked into were not too peculiar to my problem.
Is it that first I have to convert the videos into some other Premiere compatible format using media encoder?
Please give your valuable advice on this.
Syed
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6 Replies
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PPro handles MTS just fine. No need to convert to another format and it won’t help if you do. CS5.5 even has Canon presets for sequences that work great. Sounds like the footage you have was shot at a low bit rate. I think the Canons that produce MTS files top out at like 24mbs and while that is easy to work with the modes beneath that could get really sketchy. Haven’t ever shot anything less than 24 so I can’t say for certain.
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Hi Paul thanks. Is there a way to overcome it?
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Mts is a panasonic codec, canon uses qt in h264. May not help much but if the raw footage is pixelated I don’t know what you can do about it.
Robert Brown
Editor/VFX/Colorist – FCP, Smoke, Quantel Pablo, After Effects, 3DS MAX, Premiere Prohttps://vimeo.com/user3987510/videos
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Canon (pro)consumer avchd camera’s produce mts files.
If the footage is pixalated could be the playback resolution is set to 1/2.
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Sony cameras also produce thier “flavor” of avchd .mts
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I, too, am having an odd problem with MTS files…long ones. It seems anything over 8 minutes really freaks Premiere out. It lags horribly and sometimes won’t play at all in the source window and then when I trim it and drag it into the timeline it takes FOREVER to render and certain frames will be completely green or red….it’s very annoying. I don’t have this problem with any other file format.
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