Which video format will retain best quality

[Steve Rhoden]

Wish i could help, but im totally unfamiliar with which formats Movie Studio
Platinum can ingest. But to be on the safe side i would say
mpeg2/mp4
h.264/mp4
There’s gonna be re-compression anyway you take it.

Steve Rhoden (Cow Leader)
Film Maker & VFX Artist.
Owner of Filmex Creative Media.
Samples of my Work and Company can be seen here:
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[Rick Hughes]

The spec for MSP12 says it will accept for import:
Import: AA3, AAC, AIFF, AVI, BMP, CDA, FLAC, GIF, JPEG, MP3, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, MVC, OGG, OMA, PCA, PNG, QuickTime, RealMedia, SFA, SND, W64, WAV, WDP, WMA, WMV

[John Rofrano]

All of those formats are lossy. I would go for which one will edit most easily. I would try:

h.264/mp4 (.mp4)
h.264 /m2ts (.m2ts)

BTW, I don’t know where you got the .TS files from, but have an older Hauppauge HD PVR and Movie Studio 12.0 edits the .TS files from that capture device without any problems. So Movie Studio Platinum can definitely edit .TS files (because I’ve done it).

~jr

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[Rick Hughes]

The ts files are a download direct from from Humax HDR Fox T2

From over the air broadcast of HD PAL TV

All attempts to get the files into MSp either resulted in a files that crashed MSP . or had no audio.
I have finally managed to get the files into MSP …. by running them through VideRedo with a custom template …

1) Recoded the 5.1 AAC audio from original format used by the broadcaster in a transport stream to AAC non transport stream

2) Changed the muxing from a transport stream to an MP4 format.

3) Removed the 2nd audio stream from the output file – leaving the 6ch track

[John Rofrano]

Glad you found a solution. Too bad it requires re-encoding. I tried tsMuxeR but I couldn’t get it to remux a stream that Movie Studio could handle. I guess re-endoing is the only way.

~jr

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[John Norton]

I found that Vegas 14 still doesn’t load the ts files I use, from Technomate Sat receiver.

I use ffmpeg to deal with it. Usually you may only need 1 audio stream and 1 video stream.
There are sometimes multiple audio streams, and depending on the tv channel, or source material, the audio you need may not always be in the same position, video position varies also, positions starting obviously at 0. For my needs, I then convert 1 video and 1 audio stream, remapped to another .ts file.

Not what you need perhaps, but I then used ffmpeg to convert the remapped second .ts file to h264 .mp4 file, the quality set by ffmpeg CRF value. The output quality can be set from low to no loss, not recommended as no loss may have compatibility issues.

[John Norton]

Can’t see an edit post option.

“For my needs, I then convert 1 video and 1 audio stream, remapped to another .ts file.”

Should have read .. For my needs, I then remap1 video and 1 audio stream, to another .ts file.
No quality loss.

[Scott Francis]

I use encoders from here:
https://hypedphoto.com/ezencoder.cfm

They did give a false positive on a couple antivirus softwares, but they are quite safe. I have used them a myriad of times and it has saved and helped me on numerous. Some of them are lossless as well.

Hope this helps!

Xavier (Scott) Francis
Mind\’s Eye Audio/Video Productions

[John Norton]

Thanks.