Hi, I'm wondering if anyone knows of a good way of converting MTS files to a suitable format to convert to DVD. I've heard it's best to convert the files to another format such as MPEG2, MPEG4 etc as MTS can't easily be imported to editing programs such as Adobe Premiere. I've tied various programs, but I either get very poor results or the software is incredibly slow when converting. I've used a program called Video to Video to convert the MTS (although not all my home video files were recorded in that format, some are a mix of MPEG4, depending which camera I used), but quite often I get really pixelated video even when I've used a good quality setting and set the video bitrate, framerate and aspect ratio accordingly. I converted a bunch of MTS files yesterday to MPEG2 and then converted them to a TS file to burn to a DVD, when even on playback of the encoded video I still got abit of choppy frame rate motion, why that is I don't know. I'm confused about framerate because some have suggested that it's best to convert the files to 30fps, yet the videos were shot in mostly 25fps (PAL), and some camcorders will allow you to record at 30fps, but if you've got video files you want to convert to DVD that are at 30fps but also have video files that were recorded at 25fps, which format do you convert them at if they are a mix?. I think the issues maybe down to the framerate of each of the formats I've originally recorded in. When the files were recorded from my camcorder they were recorded in separate files within the folder (each time you recorded and stopped it creates a separate file), some of the separate files can be huge because of the duration of the recording, and when you've got muliple files like this it can be an headache to convert them into one file.
From years of converting HD video I find it a very laborious process and makes me wanna go back to using standard SD video from a Hi8 camcorder. Maybe I need a better laptop at dealing with HD video.
At the moment I'm in the process of converting about 20 MTS files to MPEG2 using Video to Video. The file size is 3.2GB and the output size if 1.5GB, yet it's been converting for about 20 minutes now and has only converted 9% so far, which seems very slow. Something must be wrong with the program I'm using.
From years of converting HD video I find it a very laborious process and makes me wanna go back to using standard SD video from a Hi8 camcorder. Maybe I need a better laptop at dealing with HD video.
At the moment I'm in the process of converting about 20 MTS files to MPEG2 using Video to Video. The file size is 3.2GB and the output size if 1.5GB, yet it's been converting for about 20 minutes now and has only converted 9% so far, which seems very slow. Something must be wrong with the program I'm using.
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