[Chrissy Chris]

Thanks a lot other John!! :-)))

Good luck you guys with editting and directing and thanks for the help!

[Chrissy Chris]

Thanks John!

I did. So I saw that there were again a million different options in MPEG streamclip.

So after converting my HD camcorder files with AVS from AVCHD (a.k.a. MTS) to Quicktime .MOV format, but still in H264 “subformat”/ codec, I converted the .MOV files with mpegstreamclip to (still interlaced) DV-PAL (european!) format, 720 px.

FCP eats it. Though, now i have a loss of HD quality. Do I need to convert them to DVCPRO-PAL in order to keep the quality?

You are soooo saving my butt!! Thanks so much!

:-)))

[Chrissy Chris]

Hi there guys!

First: Love niptuck.

Second: my new AVCHD camcorder files give me a headache.

I’m trying to convert AVCHD (MTS) files into quicktime files to be able to edit them in FCP (because if FCP is on a mac without intel, it cannot read AVCHD a.k.a. MTS files).

I use AVS video converter to read these files and convert them. Because I cannot choose from the formats/ codcs named above by you guys, my question is: Do you maybe have any advice which other format/ codec to use? Here are my options:

If I choose to convert to Quicktime, I can choose either h264 (which as i read above and i experienced myself is not an edit codec) or mpeg4 or sorensen video.

If I choose to convert to MPEG, I can either choose MPEG1 or 2
and NTSC/PAL (for me as a european: PAL) or HD or creative zen vision M.

Thanks in advance and kind regards,

Chrissy