Convert video (eg. MOV) to 1080i m2ts

[jsowoc]

Hi,

I have a video editing program that came with my camcorder (Panasonic HD Writer AE) that is able to manipulate files from my camcorder rather well (lossless trimming and appending, rendering only the transitions). Unfortunately, it accepts only AVCHD 1080i (or 1080p) video. I have a few videos from a digital camera that use a different codec and are 720p30 that I would like to add to the project.

how can I convert this:

Video
ID                                       : 1
Format                                   : JPEG
Codec ID                                 : jpeg
Duration                                 : 18s 500ms
Bit rate mode                            : Variable
Bit rate                                 : 25.6 Mbps
Width                                    : 1 280 pixels
Height                                   : 720 pixels
Display aspect ratio                     : 16:9
Frame rate mode                          : Constant
Frame rate                               : 30.000 fps
Color space                              : YUV
Chroma subsampling                       : 4:2:0
Bit depth                                : 8 bits
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)                       : 0.924
Stream size                              : 56.4 MiB (100%)
Language                                 : English
Encoded date                             : UTC 2012-09-01 12:20:48
Tagged date                              : UTC 2012-09-01 12:20:48

Audio
ID                                       : 2
Format                                   : PCM
Format settings, Endianness              : Little
Format settings, Sign                    : Unsigned
Codec ID                                 : raw 
Duration                                 : 18s 500ms
Bit rate mode                            : Constant
Bit rate                                 : 64.0 Kbps
Channel(s)                               : 1 channel
Sampling rate                            : 8 000 Hz
Bit depth                                : 8 bits
Stream size                              : 145 KiB (0%)
Language                                 : English
Encoded date                             : UTC 2012-09-01 12:20:48
Tagged date                              : UTC 2012-09-01 12:20:48

to this:

Video
ID                                       : 4113 (0x1011)
Menu ID                                  : 1 (0x1)
Format                                   : AVC
Format/Info                              : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile                           : High@L4.0
Format settings, CABAC                   : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames                : 4 frames
Format settings, GOP                     : M=3, N=15
Codec ID                                 : 27
Duration                                 : 23s 957ms
Bit rate mode                            : Variable
Bit rate                                 : 11.8 Mbps
Maximum bit rate                         : 16.8 Mbps
Width                                    : 1 920 pixels
Height                                   : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio                     : 16:9
Frame rate                               : 29.970 fps
Color space                              : YUV
Chroma subsampling                       : 4:2:0
Bit depth                                : 8 bits
Scan type                                : Interlaced
Scan order                               : Top Field First
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)                       : 0.189
Stream size                              : 33.6 MiB (94%)

Audio
ID                                       : 4352 (0x1100)
Menu ID                                  : 1 (0x1)
Format                                   : AC-3
Format/Info                              : Audio Coding 3
Mode extension                           : CM (complete main)
Format settings, Endianness              : Big
Codec ID                                 : 129
Duration                                 : 24s 32ms
Bit rate mode                            : Constant
Bit rate                                 : 256 Kbps
Channel(s)                               : 2 channels
Channel positions                        : Front: L R
Sampling rate                            : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth                                : 16 bits
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Delay relative to video                  : -67ms
Stream size                              : 751 KiB (2%)

I'm comfortable with entering cryptic commands into ffmpeg, but this doesn't quite work (the output isn't interlaced):

$ ./ffmpeg.exe -i camera.mov -codec:a ac3 -codec:v h264 -s 1920x1080 -vf tinterlace output.m2ts

Any other utilities I can try? Ideally if they'd also generate the corresponding .cont, .pmpd and .tmb files .

[Baldrick]

Maybe ffmbc.

[jsowoc]

Maybe ffmbc.

The description looks promising, but the default Windows version can only decode (and not encode) AVCHD. It can decode my mjpeg directly .

$ ./FFmbc-0.7rc7-win32/ffmbc -codecs
Codecs:
 D..... = Decoding supported
 .E.... = Encoding supported
 ..V... = Video codec
 ..A... = Audio codec
 ..S... = Subtitle codec
 ...S.. = Supports draw_horiz_band
 ....D. = Supports direct rendering method 1
 .....T = Supports weird frame truncation
 ------
 D V D  4xm             4X Movie
[...]
  EV    h263p           H.263+ / H.263-1998 / H.263 version 2
 D V D  h264            H.264 / AVC / MPEG-4 AVC / MPEG-4 part 10
 DEVSD  huffyuv         Huffyuv / HuffYUV
[...]
 D V D  mimic           Mimic
 DEV D  mjpeg           MJPEG (Motion JPEG)
 D V D  mjpegb          Apple MJPEG-B
[...]
FFmbc version 0.7-rc7
Copyright (c) 2008-2012 Baptiste Coudurier and the FFmpeg developers

Any other suggestions?

[poisondeathray]

you can try avchdcoder, multiavchd

[Brainiac]

MPEG Streamclip?

[jsowoc]

AVCHDCoder - I couldn't get it to recognize the audio tracks (and it refused to proceed further). I tried transcoding to an intermediate format, and still no luck... (maybe I just picked the wrong formats)

multiAVCHD - really nice program I'll keep in mind when I make BluRay discs, but unfortunately the discs it makes can't be imported into Panasonic HD Writer AE 4.0. It might be that Panasonic Writer recognizes only discs it made itself (to avoid editing commercial movies or something).

MPEG StreamClip - maybe I misread, but I didn't find a way to convert from mov to m2ts

Thank you for all the suggestions, but it appears that Panasonic Writer is really picky with what it accepts and short of filming my screen there is no way to get external videos in there. I will decide how badly I want this external footage and maybe switch to a different editing program.