[Steve Nicholl]

Ahh right I see, for some reason I thought the MTS files were huge and needed to be compressed before they could be worked with. In that case I’ll get myself a couple of externals to put them on which will freeing up some space of my drive.

So once I’ve got my MTS files into my editing software (final cut/premiere/after effects) what would be my best choice to output with the best quality but not gigantic file size? Or can you not have one without the other.

Thanks again for your advice:)

[Steve Nicholl]

Thanks for the replies, so in terms of the de-interlacing I’ll let the TV do the converting (thanks Daniel), but for the AVCHD conversion, am I right in thinking I’m stuck with editing the MTS files as they are? Ideally I’d like to convert them as they’re so big it makes working with them a little slow. I’m willing to sacrifice some of the size/quality in doing so?