Transcoding MTS/M2TS AVCHD Video Files with Free Software

[badboyg316]

M2TS files uploads to youtube

[sassangorillaz]

where is the download link on the actual website, i looked everywhere but cant find where it actually says 'download software' etc...??

[johnmac1221]

"you know......"

[alexsally]

I wanted to post a reply with my video response "sea eagle meets seal" , basically to say helpful video and I made the sea eagle video using avchd and people need a bit more good knowledge on avch and m2ts...

alex sally

[DesertSmeagle]

will this let me upload hd videos onto youtube? i have a converter and windows mm lets me edit mts files but i put it on youtube and its not hd...why? i have a canon hf200 and its like a rely good HD camera.

[locant23]

(Free HD converter) works good.

[kapalikan]

5 minutes of video take 42 minutes to directly upload to youtube in mts format. Re-encoding would take 25 minutes, and then you would still need to upload. I personally see no reason to convert.

[killerducky420]

@kapalikan if you plan on editing the video and you dont have a program that uses M2TS than you need to get a program for it

[hrprada]

Ok, so you can re encode your MTS files to, say, .wmv etc but the quality is degraded. The results are disapointing. Better solutions are needed.

[shazam75]

LOL I enjoyed the video... thanks man

[StatelessDave]

Thanks for the tips dude. Thing you can do is when to make it a habit to - when you shoot on location - break the footage into chunks by having more than usual sequences. So tag, bag, edit, and retail ready away. You can also edit .MTS (AVCHD) files in Premiere Pro 'cause AVCHD files are native in Adobe environment but; you won't have any of Avid's fancy editing capabilities. But for Event Videography, it will more than suffice. . . Save labor intensive, arduous conversions for later. . .

[Sergeantspoon]

Thanks. ^^

PS: ZOMG NICE you play WoW. ;)

[iguazo]

can i export from premiere elements? o do i need to use premiere pro ?

[bobabeens]

lol i dont think i saw the part where you explained how open up that thing and re encode the files. so how do u?

[pinkybro]

yeah, I have the platinum version. I agree its amazing for editing, effects etc, i had lots of fun playing with it but was dissapointed with output file. Better in PRO!! well i'll not be buying 2..fingers burnt..

Hockeyman127: that wont work m8.. if it was that easy you wouldnt have editing programs. I wish it was that easy.. :>

[suzanneod]

Thanks for trying to help. Why do people have to be so incredibly nasty when posting comments? They apparently didn't listen to their moms when they were told if they didn't have something nice to say then to not say it at all........

[Hockeyman127]

just change the file name from blank.MTS to Blank.Mpg it works for me

[voicesfollow]

do you lose any quality of the HD by just renaming it to MPG ??

[Hockeyman127]

no its the same ;)

[voicesfollow]

then whats the muss and fuss about converting when you can simply just rename it, it takes a second.

[Hockeyman127]

because i use sony vegas and i need to convert the file to use it in that program to edit it

[pinkybro]

sony vegas is pap, the quality after editing acvhd files are really poor. I was very dissapointed. it basically saves to Mpeg.. HD to Mpeg??? I now crop using motion browser (supplied with SonyHD cam) then add them to iskysoft converter (which also crops etc) but saves to HD-Avi. much better quality

[ebbixx]

Consumer versions of Vegas *are* pap. In most cases you can't get the best quality unless you're using the latest pro version. OTOH, even in the consumer versions you get a fair amount of control, especially in processing the audio. But again, decent color grading and really useful features are available only in Vegas Pro. I'd love to find the same features in something open source that's still easy for someone with limited gearhead inclinations to use efficiently.

[kroneage]

@Hockeyman127

It's not that simple haha

We're talking a raw coded codec & your player can tell the difference, no matter what you re-name extension to. Changing the name does anything except in your head.

Media files need to be re-incoded w/ whatever codec you want to use. If I have a .m2ts video from my camcorder, I can't simply rename it to a .mp4 and hope it plays on my Sony PS3! haha

I use MeGUI on Linux & Super Converter on Windows!

[Hockeyman127]

dude i dont know what u just said but i dont care it works for me

[kroneage]

@Hockeyman127

A file name is for your reference only. I can rename all my video files .avi but that doesn't make them AVI files! ...duh

The code in them is what makes them either an AVI or MPG or whatever. You are only fooling yourself! haha

BTW ....that's a case of your computer being smarter than YOU are! lol ....cuz if I change my name, I'm still the same person! haha  YOU aren't foolin anybody or thing, but yourself!!! ;)

[Hockeyman127]

Smart guy I DON'T CARE it works for me and other people i know, i dont give a shit about your MeGUI

and computers r smarter than all of us they behold everything

[panchodham]

hey how can i rename the file?pls help O:

[MrKaushikBiswas]

NO MORE TRANSCODING NEEDED ANYMORE. Now YouTube allows uploading of m2ts & mts files.

[PSPhenom]

If that's true, the prob is how large the .MTS files are.

[MrKaushikBiswas]

m2ts is roughly 136MB per minute of video. yeah, that's quite large. youtube allows 10 minutes of video, so it's roughly 1.32GB uploading for us in .m2ts! lol, nobody wud do that. but still, they opened up one option for us.

[AGrandt]

What I REALLY want to know is how to convert AVCHD (.mts/.m2ts) to for instance MKV or MP4 without the video re encode. AVCHD is a container with a h.264 stream, and typically an AC3 stream as well.

It ought to be possible to process the h.264 used in the AVCHD to a standard AVC High Profile h.264 stream without having to re-encode it.

[MrKaushikBiswas]

NO MORE TRANSCODING NEEDED ANYMORE. Now YouTube allows uploading of m2ts & mts files.

[AGrandt]

Well, that's nice and all, but that was hardly what I was asking about.

I'm saying that it _should_ be possible to reformat a h.264 stream from whatever structure is used in a AVCHD to a regular h.264 stream without re-encoding it. For some reason the various Camcorder manufacturers seem to be using proprietary modifications to both the container and streams.

[AGrandt]

You have to click many buttons on your keyboard, these are text applications.

[CMatomic]

Kdenlive , cinelerra , kino, video editors,

[getmered]

Just bought a sony HDR-SR11e camcorder "HD" how can I get the video file to be recognised in my software like: windows movie maker or Cyberlink, power director. They just don't see the file. Do I need a code for the programs? (New to all this) any help would be great!!

[MrKaushikBiswas]

Sony has a software Vegas Movie Studio, use it, its nicely compatible with .m2ts file system. You will also need DivX 6.8 codec, install it. Then 'render' the video in Windows AVI format with HDV 720-30p mode. There you are! :) Vegas will give you a nice compressed AVI file which doesn't hamper quality and is then recognizable by all major software for disc burning.

[getmered]

Hey Thanks, just got sony vagas 8b pro & it works a treat, But takes a long time, but worth it, videos come out great! Thanks :)

[MrKaushikBiswas]

rendering time varies. you can try this:-

while rendering, you can see a "custom" option beside the template where you chose HDV 720-30p, there choose quality as 'best' and on the video tab choose frame size as HDV 720 1280x720. Field order should be "None (progressive scan)". Now render and see, time will be lesser. But if you are using AVCHD-FH mode on handycam (1920x1080) mode, then quality will be a little down, obviously, since it brings down the frame to 1280x720.

[MrKaushikBiswas]

NO MORE TRANSCODING NEEDED ANYMORE. Now YouTube allows uploading of m2ts & mts files.

[TheMainMane]

god damn .m2ts, thanks for this vid man.

[shortboy]

"holy crap that is a long post processing time" ahahah

Thanks for this. I hate MTS files