mts files

[Josh Olenslager]

Hi Bob,

ts files are streaming files for disc playback. You should be able to open them with a program like VLC or MPEG Streamclip. You’ll probably need to then transcode them into a format that Final Cut can recognize and work with. Both the programs above are freeware and have transcode capability. Hopefully this will work out for you.

Good luck!

Josh

Digital Media, Thought Equity Motion

[Martti Ekstrand]

He is asking about .mts files, not .ts ones. The .mts files comes from cameras using AVCHD compression and for FCP’s Log & Transfer to work they need to be still in the camera’s “PRIVATE” folder and it has to be unaltered by a computer or L&T refuses to recognize them. Just delete one file in “PRIVATE” and the entire content of it is ignored by Log & Transfer. One good workaround is converting with Toast 10 which reads naked .mts files and can convert to any Quicktime codec you have installed. This is actually my preferred method of converting. Toast also includes a video player that plays .mts files very well without conversion.

VLC can convert but only to a limited set of codecs and not with good quality. MPEG Streamclip does not read .mts file, hopefully that will be added. There’s is a shareware app called Voltaic that also handles .mts files as they are but it’s slower and transcodes somewhat softer than Toast and very much slower. It has handled some clips that Toast has not coped with though. Cineform’s NeoScene also handles .mts files, outputs to it’s own pretty good codec but costs more.

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[Josh Olenslager]

Thanks Martti, my mistake.

Josh

[Russell Lasson]

Martti, do you know if there is a way to just wrap an AVCHD file in a QT wrapper? Does Toast do something like that?

-Russ

Russell Lasson
Colorist/Digital Cinema Specialist
Color Mill
Salt Lake City, UT
http://www.colormill.net

[Bob Root]

Thanks for the responses.

L and T worked fine when dragging in the entire Private folder.

My mistake was trying to drag in the individual mts files. Lesson learned.

Thanks again.

Bob

[Chery Day]

Thanks for this information. I have been given a drive with .mts files. I do have Roxio 10. How should I proceed in getting the files into Roxio? Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks

[Alan Langdon]

I am currently converting using the CONVERT option in Toast 11. The 720p resolution output seems to be encoding to Apple INtermediate COdec, not the most professional but OK for now… I’ll post back if something goes wrong.