Opening or Importing m2ts files into Vegas Pro

[Jacob Filek]

Anybody have any advice?

[Douglas Spotted eagle]

Not clear on what your workflow is. I have an SR12, and the files open correctly. Another user in another community reported a problem, he posted files from his SR12, everyone was able to open the MTS files as well. What is “PMB?”
Are you opening from the card or from a hard drive?

Douglas Spotted Eagle
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[Jacob Filek]

PMB is the software that is supplied with the camara. It stands for: Picture Motion Browser.
I shoot the video , connect to the computer , import using the utility supplied with the camera.
The files that appear on my computer have an m2ts extension.
I cannot open or import these files into Vegas.
Can these m2ts files be converted without loosing quality?

[Jeff Klamer]

I have a Sony HDR SR12 and Sony Vegas 8 Pro Editing Software. I installed the “Motion Picture Browser” into my pc. At this time I import video and still footage into the MPB and all the files show as thumbnails. I do not believe I have been able to import the actual .m2ts video files into vegas, but if I right-click on a video thumbnail and save as a .wmv file I can drag the .wmv file into the vegas timeline and work with that.

How can I import directly from my camcorder into vegas using the USB cable that came with my camcorder? The Vegas software keeps telling me “No drive found.” Is there a setting(s) I should do in Vegas so the software recognizes my camcorder?

Thank you.

[Ray Jender]

Interesting…I have not tried Vegas yet. I am evaluating PowerDirector
right now. The video clips I have on the camera hard drive are .MTS files. I treat the camera hard drive like any other USB drive, I drag and drop the files onto my PC.

I’m still confused about .m2ts and what that file extension means as I have not seen those on my camera yet. (Sony HDR-SR11).

Ray

[Weeseng Wong]

How can I edit the files I have on my computer with Vegas?
Please update Vegas to version 8.0d(Build 139). You can trim the m2ts files with Vegas trimmer, however, m2ts can only be edited using PMB(Picture Motion Bowser). You can import these files into Vegas using import or explorer from within Vegas.

[Weeseng Wong]

How can I import directly from my camcorder into vegas using the USB cable that came with my camcorder?
Vegas can only import from Media file or CAMcorder disc.

[Weeseng Wong]

File extension M2TS description: BDAV MPEG-2 transport stream used by Blu-Ray discs.

BDAV refers to either the transport stream format used for all Blu-ray content, or the plain format intended for home video with no interactivity.

The BDAV Container format is based on the standard MPEG-2 TS (Transport stream)

Both Blu-ray and HD DVD use transport streams, compared to DVD’s program streams, to store video, audio, and other streams. This allows multiple video programs to be stored in the same file so they can be played back simultaneously, giving a Picture In Picture effect.

BDAV discs being the only unencrypted Blu-ray format supported on players.

BDAV was designed in part to provide compatibility between AVCHD digital camcorders and Blu-ray players. It’s comparable to the DVD formats used for standalone DVD recorders, DVD+VR and DVD-VR because it’s designed primarily for authoring simple Video/Audio content with no menus.