Ravi

2008-01-02 05:57:26

I have copied the .m2ts movie files from my friend Sony HD Camecorder into my Notebook. When I try to play this video, it is not workin. But I am having Sony HDD camecorder software in my notebook. I don't know how to play or convert this m2ts file into my system.

Pls advise me.

Yours faithfully,
Ravi.

riley

2008-01-04 16:05:28

exactly my issue too! and also the .modd files which are downloaded as well. it is a mess. I just want to move all the 27 gig of files from the camera to an external harddrive but with out losing anything. hard to have confidence when i cna't understand this..

riley

2008-01-04 18:11:26

I appreciate the reply. But what to do with them? this is the HDR SR-1 the software includes as AVCHD reader and Picture Motion Browser which took over my whole picture library! etc... Do I just copy the sets of .mdd and .m2ts files to the external hard drive? then what? are they only playable through the camcorder to the tv? I guess this isn't yor area of aswering/expertise. I'm just so frustrated I'm spouting. thanks for your time

valter

2008-01-13 08:37:17

You must instal AviSynth,XP-Codec-Pack,Cyberlink PowerDVD Ultra v7.2 ....I see m2ts files with bsplayer too and floods very well. By. Sory for my english.

Denise

2008-01-22 15:21:21

I have the same problems with the .m2ts file conversions. Are we in the dark ages, Sony?? Why is it so complicated to convert these extension??... we are in the age of shareware, not proprietary! Really regretting buying the Handycam because of the problems uploading unreadable .m2ts files on to our family website...

chris

2008-02-04 22:09:23

has anyone had any luck saving these files to your external hard drive? also, has had the same success valter had with the Power DVD Ultra v7.2 ?

Valter, can you explain any success you've had with this? I'm just trying to back up my HD video and it's like designing a freakin rocket!
Thanks.

Chris

Brendan

2008-02-06 06:49:18

Using Sony's supplied Picture Motion Browser software, you can import all your files directly onto your external HDD.

Then I use Nero 8's Nero Vision 5 to import the .m2ts, or .mpg files and create a standard-definition DVD, until I can afford either a HD-DVD or Blu-Ray burner and create high-def DVDs ...

Markus

2008-03-04 00:43:15

I copy my files from my sony handycam into my pc, the output files are in mpeg and not in m2ts, but I'd like to know how to open m2ts file on my pc, because I got some m2ts file on my pc. I am just wondering what plugin or program do I need to open up these file. or is it got work if I burn it into a dvd file.

JT

2008-03-04 05:51:43

it seems that Konvertor can convert these m2ts to avi, mpeg and so on
see konvertor.net

JVB

2008-04-05 18:19:58

I just bought a Canon HG10 with its own hard drive. I also have a external hard drive that I want to down load to from the canon HG10. I bought a pinnacle video transfer. Can anyone help me solve my problem. How do I transfer from HG10 through pinnacle transfer to a 250 gig WD external hard drive. Thanks
JVB

Amanda Schreine

2008-05-01 10:16:41

Hi

I have a SONY handycam -- after a huge nightmare and being forced to download this software (the picture motion guide) - i can not do anything with these file extensions .m2ts. I need to edit these movies in ADOBE PREMIER, then export them as FLV's. Does anyone have any ideas how to work with these files, or make it so this camcorder just records out as AVI? that is what most camcorders do dont they!? Please let me know any info would be GREATLY appreciated!
amanda

Jeff

2008-05-06 01:41:46

I have an HD sony camcorder and Ive got some answers

1st: you can play the HD videos by double clicking the icon of the downloaded video file in picture motion browser.

2nd:There is no simple free way to open or convert the .m2ts files in any program other than the software provided by sony

You cannot make it so that the camcorder outputs an AVI stream unfortunately, and so your stuck using the .m2ts files. You can download the .m2ts files into picture motion browser using the software that came with the camcorder, and from there your only option it to export it as a mpeg file that is 720x480. If you want to keep the native 1080i resolution, you have to buy other softwar like Nero 8 or if you have it use the new iMovie from iLife 08 if you have a mac. Either of these will let you play and edit the origional .m2ts files and will let you convert them to other formats that would be compatible with Adobe Premier. Unfortunately, the only free way to edit the HD files is very complicated and not even close to worth the hassle.

Hope this helps.

Xill

2008-05-16 14:45:30

Jeff is right. I am also stuck with the same problem, got a Sony HDR-SR8E and recorded many hours of HD content. I wanted to edit these video files which are MT2S extension actually, in Adobe Premiere CS3.

After a lot of research and exploring online material, I've reached to the following conclusions.

1. Adobe yet doesn't have any support to AVCHD (.M2TS) files. so we can't edit these files in Adobe Premiere directly.

2. M2TS files can be played using Power DVD 8 Ultra or NERO 8 ShowTime (A Part of Nero 8 Ultra Suite). You can also download HAALI MEDIA SPLITTER codec and run these files in Windows Media Player. VLC Player simply can't play 1080i M2TS files.

3. In order to convert these files to AVI (the most suitable format for editing), the best tool is ELECARD AV CHD to AVI TRANSCODER, which is not a free of cost solution. However, I checked the trial version of this software and the output AVI file produced was successfully imported in Adobe Premiere CS3.

4. The free solution, as mentioned by Jeff, is really a headache. We require VirtualDubMod, AVISynth and a DeInterlacing Plugin (Google for it, if you are interested, but this method is a damn, and the result is an EXTREMELY Heavy File; even for a recording time of merely 10 minutes).

5. The most simple solution is, use Motion Picture Browser utility that comes with the HandyCam to convert these HD videos to SD (MPEG2 DVD) files, save them on your hard disk, then use some other converter, like VirtualDubMod (its free) to convert these VOB files to AVI. This is the only viable solution, you can edit these files in Adobe Premiere CS3.

I'm gonna do the method 5.

And listen up guys, Adobe's partner, 'Main Concept' has released a plugin for Premiere CS3, that could enable it to edit AVCHD (M2TS) files. It costs USD500 roughly, so :(

Good Luck..

dean

2008-05-20 09:48:43

"I just bought a Canon HG10 with its own hard drive. I also have a external hard drive that I want to down load to from the canon HG10. I bought a pinnacle video transfer. Can anyone help me solve my problem. How do I transfer from HG10 through pinnacle transfer to a 250 gig WD external hard drive. Thanks
JVB"

No offence but RTFM. Did you read the manual? the HG10 comes with software that lets you copy all the M2TS files from your camera to the PC directly. It creates a file directory structure with all the movie clips from the camera. The directory structure naming convention is date/time. Then you can use other software supplied with the camera to view the video on your pc. The only real problem is using the supplied software to convert it to make a DVD which hangs on my pc.

Unser

2008-05-26 07:23:28

Denise & Amanda
I also got stuck with the m2ts files that I cannot open. Worry no more. I found out accidentally that Google's Picasa can open these files. It makes sharing and burning videos easy, either by regular CD or DVD.
The way it works is you highlight a group of movies and it can even be combined with pics. If you choose "Gift CD", it will also copy a Picasa install files so the recipient can open the files automatically in a sideshow. For the movie files, you have to open inside Picasa manually.

Marius

2008-06-02 05:13:27

I can´t play my videos with my windows mediaplayer because it is a modd file...what can i do to play that movies?

koko

2008-06-04 22:36:13

Easy to do is to convert .M2TS to MPEG2 HD 1440x1080 or 1920x1080 and then you can use MPEG2 with Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 or Adobe Encore in this case you can backup the original shooting file{M2TS)to MPEG2 & have the same quality HD & then burn MPEG2 HD to DVD disk just for backup & delete M2TS from PC HD, also it's more easy to work with MPEG2 HD in AdoPrePro then M2TS..

The best program work just perfect for me is "TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress" easy to use & a lot future but you need to instal "Cyber Link PowerDVD 7 ver." also if you shooting audio is 5.1 Stereo you may need to install "AC3 Filter"

ionut

2008-06-21 06:10:28

i have a hdr sr5 with picture mot. brow. by sony. and a big problem. i can't play my videos with pmb because the video could not be analyzed . the message is that he cant read the video format...how can it display this nonsense...

Xill

2008-06-22 23:40:10

And whats the good extension?? .M2TS? or .MTS?

Xill

2008-06-23 23:23:14

Adobe Update.. about AVCHD files..

http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=kb403297&sliceId=2

This link provides almost all the possible solutions for making AVCHD files editable in Adobe Premiere CS 3.

Check it out..

peddu

2008-06-24 17:22:14

Here is some good news for windows users.

http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2008/05/04/avchd-transcoding-using-free-tools/

Can convert m2ts to any format supported by super. m2ts to mp4 is explained in the site, but you can select any output format in super. Did a 2 min m2ts video to dvd vob conversion on core2duo 1gb xp machine, took about 20 min. The output was very good.

hope it helps.
regards, Pavan

Lime

2008-06-24 23:20:11

I am using "TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress" for converting files .MTS to .Avi. everything is going good except that audio is not working. I also downloaded ac3filter but it's still not working for me. Any idea how I can hear audio in this as I find it as the easiest program to work with?

peddu

2008-06-25 12:52:35

hi Lime,
try this process. its simple and it was designed for mts files. you can convert it avi. AVISynth and Super do a super job.

http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2008/05/04/avchd-transcoding-using-free-tools/

regards,
Pavan

nagesh dhuri

2008-07-02 03:07:30

I have copied the .m2ts movie files from my friend Sony HD Camecorder into my PC. When I try to play this video, it is not workin. But I am having Sony HDD camecorder software in my PC. I don't know how to play or convert this m2ts files into my system.

Please advise

Yours faithfully,

peddu

2008-07-02 11:57:20

Hi Nagesh,

Try this: http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2008/05/04/avchd-transcoding-using-free-tools/

regards,
Pavan

Dushy

2008-07-10 16:37:09

Hi

.mt2s is the biggest mess of a extension I have dealt with. After a lot of searching the only thing that worked fluently was the Power DVD ultra. Even then,huge files(like my cousins wedding video) takes ages to load unless every other application is switched off.(Just letting you know,2.4Ghz intel duo2,4gb ram,512mb graphics laptop used). Copy paste the data simply to the external hard drive,BUT it will take even longer to load.

Worst part is trying to convert or edit these files. Even with the performance,and only running sony vegas 8 it will crash. Sony's answer to this problem---->NO ANSWER.

Sony has created a beautiful camcorder (SR11) but not enough or not enough info on what to do with the raw data etc. Sony having good customer service? Yeah right. Might as well talk to my cat.At least i get a confused cute look from him back.

Sony Laptop-Sony Camcorder-Blu Ray recorder-Sony TV---NO HELP AT ALL. Guys if you have any ideas on software which can actually handle it,LET ME KNOW PLEASE.

Thanks

pavan

2008-07-10 17:22:20

Hi Dushy,

Here is a free and simple conversion procedure that worked for me, created a normal dvd out of m2ts files. You can actually convert them to any format you want (super tool provides lot of options).

http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2008/05/04/avchd-transcoding-using-free-tools/

hope it helps.

Xill

2008-07-10 23:55:13

I have been using TMPGenc Express 4.0 to make m2ts editable/playable by converting it to uncompressed AVI, MPEG2. The only problem is, you can't set the output framerate to 25 or even 30fps as it causes to the output to play at a sluggish playback speed i.e. slow motion playback. Set the FPS to 50 or 60 and then get the output, it'd be better.

In Premiere CS3, after installing plugin from MainConcept, I can now import .m2ts /.mts files. Premiere CS3 then easily converts this file to any format of your choice, with no extra setting to be made. Make it a 1080i MPEG2, H.264 HD, both are playable and pertain the quality, though filesize is increased. Using Premiere CS3 merely for conversion.. Funny.. ehhh?

Third major transcoder is ELECARD, equally good. It converts m2ts to PAL standard MPEG4 AVI files. Reduces quality somehow but the file becomes playable.

eric

2008-07-21 23:51:27

Try out VoltaicHD. Its cheaper than other solutions and works easy as. Try the demo out. www.shedworx.com make it. They also have a thing called RevolverHD for outputting your edited files to blueray. Nice.

david

2008-07-29 18:48:06

Hi Peddu and Pavan,

This guide is really useful! I converted .m2ts files easily to .avi and .mp4 files with the tools you listed.

Thanks!

Arun

2008-07-29 20:16:57

Thanks David, one quick question. Was the video clarity retained when you converted from .m2ts to .avi or mp4 formats.

Xill

2008-08-01 00:54:34

Hi Arun,
Hard to say, but video quality can't be retained in any format other than HD ones.

Limeice

2008-08-03 13:28:39

After struggling with TMPGenc Express 4.0 for a good week i was not impressed with the quality of the video.
so experimented and found a easy and a good way out
the best software for converting MTS files is Nero 8
I use Nero Vision for converting all the MTS files into the extension of my choice...i preferred mpg coz it let me convert them in the resolution of 1480*1088 and the final result was awesome.
put all the files in nerovision in the option of editing them and place all in the timeline position and then export them in the file extension of ur choice........BINGO
easy and fun

Ric

2008-08-06 21:41:21

I am a recent owner of a Sony SR-11 and 24" iMAC; my first camcorder and first Apple. I had uploaded movies from the camcorder to a Dell before purchasing the apple, and had deleted movies from the camcorder. I wanted to get the movies onto the Apple, but iMovie would not import from an external hard drive. I was successful in doing that by opening the movies in PMB and exporting "back" onto the camcorder; then connecting to apple and importing into iMovie, which would not import from a USB hard drive. The import is still underway so don't know any details.

I was surprised at how quickly PMB reloaded the movies onto the SR-11. Importing into iMovie is taking much longer by comparison; probably not comparable events.