How To Convert MST to MPEG

[ranchhand]

I am sure this has been covered ad nauseum here, but I am in a time crunch. I have tried scanning the LISTS menu on the left of this webpage but I just end up getting confused. I am helping my wife create a small video for work, and everything has gone well but the person who is using his camcorder (Canon HF 10)has a program that will convert to MPEG, but it will only convert half the video and then it stops - it's a promo program! Can anyone recommend a program here that will simply convert the MST files on his camcorder to MPEG so I can import into Pinnacle 12 and edit them? Thanks in advance!

[aedipuss]

did you mean .mts? mpeg transport stream. does pinnacle 12 handle 1920x1080 HD video? you could convert to a lossless avi for editing. you might try avidemux and use huffyuv for the video and maybe pcm for the audio. the files will be much larger, up to 10x, but the quality won't suffer like it would rendering to another mpeg to get it into pinnnicle and then rendering again for the final product.

[creamyhorror]

If by MST you mean MTS, then surely Pinnacle 12 can import them directly? That's what I'm reading from brief googling, anyway.

If your CPU isn't a dual core or higher, you shouldn't import directly because it's too taxing to work well in Pinnacle. If you're dealing with 1920x1080 footage, you probably need a quad core.

[ranchhand]

Thanks guys, I appreciate the reply and help! Creamy, you are correct; Pinnacle 12Ultra imported the AVCHD without a hitch off the Canon HD camcorder. So far it is running and editing with no problems. I am running a homebuild computer: Asus mobo, AMD quad-core running default 3.0 and overclocked to 3.6GHz on air stable. 4gig 1066 RAM, FSB on mobo running FSB at 1066. Two SATA 620 Harddrives. The only thing about that CanonHD camcorder is that XP can have a problem finding it until you designate it on the LCD view screen itself (there is an adjustable setting there that I finally discovered). After that a piece of cake. Thanks again!!

[creamyhorror]

Good to hear that you got it working, then.