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Title: Converting HD files
Post by: moyer777 on March 04, 2010, 10:07:09 AM
A client of mine got me an HD Panasonic Camera HDC-HS300.

I went out and took some really nice footage, but can't edit it in anything.  The files are mts.  ??

Does anyone know of a free or inexpensive program that I could convert these files to avi or something useful without messing up the quality?

ugh.

:)
Title: Re: Converting HD files
Post by: Rico on March 04, 2010, 10:29:40 AM
Pinnacle Studio should be able to handle it.
Title: Re: Converting HD files
Post by: moyer777 on March 04, 2010, 10:43:32 AM
I've tried Pinnacle, and it has been really slow and crashes my computer.  ?
Title: Re: Converting HD files
Post by: Geekyfanboy on March 04, 2010, 10:50:36 AM
I hate MTS files... worst file format... we tried for months to work on a converter for the BTS stuff for The Guild.. finally found out that Toast 10 Pro is really good at converting those files
Title: Re: Converting HD files
Post by: Rico on March 04, 2010, 12:01:40 PM
Quote from: moyer777 on March 04, 2010, 10:43:32 AM
I've tried Pinnacle, and it has been really slow and crashes my computer.  ?


You need a beefy computer to run it.  Are you capturing the files direct from the camera or just moving the files to your hard drive and then accessing them that way?
Title: Re: Converting HD files
Post by: Ktrek on March 04, 2010, 12:13:53 PM
You could try this Rick:

http://www.squidoo.com/mts-files (http://www.squidoo.com/mts-files)

Looks to be free and supposedly does convert mts files.

Kevin
Title: Re: Converting HD files
Post by: Dangelus on March 04, 2010, 12:17:03 PM
Rick,

Try TSMuxer:

]http://www.smlabs.net/tsmuxer_en.html] (http://www.smlabs.net/tsmuxer_en.html)

This can convert h.264 or Mpeg2 .mts files or even demux them to audio and video streams and it's free!

I use it all the time to convert .mkv to other formats.