.mts questions

[agent-x]

Hi all

Ive just bought a new laptop (MacBook OS 10) and I'm now carrying out some video work for my local community.

Ive got loads of videos in .mts format that I need to convert into a suitable for YouTube.

as the videos have been recorded in HD i would like to in essence upload the videos in HD too. I have lots of videos to convert and more and more videos get recorded. I suppose the videos dont HAVE to be uploaded in HD as it will take along time to upload and possibly convert to?

The questions I have are:

1) Whats the best format to upload the videos onto youtube ?

2) What software do I use to convert the file from .mts?

Thanks all

[johns0]

Thread move to the mac forum where you can get more answers and welcome to the forums.

[agent-x]

Thread move to the mac forum where you can get more answers and welcome to the forums.

Sorry, I thought it was in the correct place.

Thanks for the welcome.

[lawnman]

This might help you.
http://www.youtube.com/t/creators_corner

[agent-x]

This might help you.
http://www.youtube.com/t/creators_corner

Thanks

Just looking at that just before you posted it.

I dont think it will mention what software to use to convert the .mts files

[lawnman]

I googled and found the following and it was mention in several threads. I don't use it.

http://www.applemacvideo.com/mac-video-converter.html

[lawnman]

I thought I read where Final Cut will handle mts. also.

[agent-x]

I googled and found the following and it was mention in several threads. I don't use it.

http://www.applemacvideo.com/mac-video-converter.html

Thank you for checking for me.

Ive downloaded this its somewhat limited. You have to pay for the full thing to get the most out of it.

I rather find something free for now, still feeling the damage from the macbook pro lol

[agent-x]

If someone can confirm if finalcut does then I may go for that

[poisondeathray]

mts is a container format, and can store different types of video. I'm going to assume you mean AVCHD. If you don't know what you have, use mediainfo mac

finalcut will do it, but not natively, you need to log & transfer to prores to get them into the editor

if you are recording interlaced, you probably want to deinterlace it before uploading to youtube

if you want to reduce the filesize before uploading, something like handbrake can deinterlace and re-encode to a more compressed format before uploading

if you want to edit , FCP is a full functioned editor, but something like avidemux (use the nightly builds) can handle simple cuts, deinterlace and re-encoding

[agent-x]

I used to use AVS on my windows 7

I think I might get VMWare and a windows 7 IOS convert file and then transfer onto Mac

[poisondeathray]

I think I might get VMWare and a windows 7 IOS convert file and then transfer onto Mac

Convert to what on a PC? That doesn't really help you because you can't encode to prores or aic on a PC

Something like DNxHD is cross platform compatible, but Mac and QT have gamma issues with it and many other formats

And if you're going to convert to an intermediate format, you might as well use Prores

The next release of FCP (FCP X) is supposed to be able to handle these files natively. Premiere Pro can also handle it natively on a Mac

If you have access to a PC, why not do it on a PC ?

[agent-x]

I think I might get VMWare and a windows 7 IOS convert file and then transfer onto Mac

Convert to what on a PC? That doesn't really help you because you can't encode to prores or aic on a PC

Something like DNxHD is cross platform compatible, but Mac and QT have gamma issues with it and many other formats

And if you're going to convert to an intermediate format, you might as well use Prores

The next release of FCP (FCP X) is supposed to be able to handle these files natively. Premiere Pro can also handle it natively on a Mac

If you have access to a PC, why not do it on a PC ?

Convert to avi and the upload to YouTube

[poisondeathray]

I'm confused about your workflow... are you editing this? or just uploading it ?

Most AVI formats are not very compatible on a MAC. "AVI" is just a container as well (says very little about the actual video compression used), just like MOV and .MTS are container formats. Think of them as "boxes" that hold audio , video , metatdata. So when you use the terms "AVI" or "MTS" or "MOV", you are not being very specific.

[agent-x]

Thanks for trying to help a total idiot lol.

I just need to convert them and then add a little watermark of the website onto the video.

I'm totally lost now with all this box avi MTS MOV etc lol

[poisondeathray]

It's ok that's why you're here to learn

FCP can do it all, it just takes an extra step to convert the MTS files to Prores MOV as a intermediate editable format.

But if you're not editing (no tranisitons, titles, color correction, effects that sort of thing...), then it's overkill and a waste of time. If you just want to convert to something smaller and add a watermark without editing and upload to youtube , Avidemux can do this

[agent-x]

It's ok that's why you're here to learn

FCP can do it all, it just takes an extra step to convert the MTS files to Prores MOV as a intermediate editable format.

But if you're not editing (no tranisitons, titles, color correction, effects that sort of thing...), then it's overkill and a waste of time. If you just want to convert to something smaller and add a watermark without editing and upload to youtube , Avidemux can do this

Thanks

Ill check out Avidemux sounds like what I need

[poisondeathray]

It's a good starting place, but if you want to spice up these video with titles, make them look good , color correction , titles, etc... you might want to start looking in to video editing

You still might have to deinterlace, you still haven't provide the information on your files. It will look like garbage if you upload interlaced video or improperly resized interlaced video to youtube. Avidemux has several deinterlacing options, but if you 're shooting progressive video then you do NOT need to deinterlace
eg.
http://www.100fps.com/

Again , use mediainfo mac
http://mediainspector.massanti.com/

[agent-x]

Video: T264, 1920*1080, 25.00 fps, 0bps
Audio: AC3, 5.1 channel surround, 48000 Hz, 448 kbps

Does that help?

Thats all the info I can extract from the video at the moment

[poisondeathray]

It helps a little, but you're missing a lot of information, there should be more....

I'm not sure if this is on the mac version , but if you use view=>text in mediainfo does it list more info ?
This version might be better, not sure , I don't have a mac here at home
http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en/Download/Mac_OS

Do you know what model of camera ?

If you open the file in avidemux and go to a section with motion (like a camera pan), and there are horizontal lines, then it's probably interlaced

[agent-x]

General
ID : 0 (0x0)
Complete name : /Users/Amar/Qari Naat&Zikr Videos/00072.MTS
Format : BDAV
Format/Info : Blu-ray Video
File size : 1.98 GiB
Duration : 16mn 19s
Overall bit rate : 17.3 Mbps
Maximum Overall bit rate : 18.0 Mbps

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 : 2 frames
Format settings, GOP : M=1, N=26
Codec ID : 27
Duration : 16mn 19s
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 16.2 Mbps
Maximum bit rate : 16.0 Mbps
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 25.000 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Interlaced
Scan order : Top Field First
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.312
Stream size : 1.85 GiB (93%)

Audio
ID : 4352 (0x1100)
Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Mode extension : CM (complete main)
Codec ID : 129
Duration : 16mn 18s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 448 Kbps
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 52.3 MiB (3%)

Text
ID : 4608 (0x1200)
Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
Format : PGS
Codec ID : 144
Duration : 16mn 19s


Ill find out shortly about what model number the camera is. I know itss a sony HD cam

[agent-x]

The model number is Sony SR10E

[poisondeathray]

Scan type : Interlaced
Scan order : Top Field First

It's probably interlaced, although mediainfo can be incorrect (it just reads header information, doesn't really analyze the content)

You would probably have to deinterlace it (you usually apply deinterlace filter before anything else, like resizing or other filters)

The model number is Sony SR10E

IIRC, this only records interlaced (doesn't have a progressive mode)

[agent-x]

LOL Damn!

1 more process to the list.

What software do I use to deinterlace?

[poisondeathray]

as mentioned earlier, avidemux has several deinterlacers. Yadif might be a good choice to start with

[agent-x]

Either I dont think this supports .mts?

[rumplestiltskin]

How about ClipWrap?

[poisondeathray]

Yes Clipwrap should work too, for importing into any mac software

You might have to search for recent avidemux mac builds, they have improved transport stream compatibility (at least on the windows and linux side)

Handbrake should work, but I don't recall if it has a simple logo/watermark filter off hand

[agent-x]

Hey guys

Thanks for all your help.

I purchased final cut pro 10 but I for some reason I still couldnt import the file into FCP

So after googling around I found that I should purchase Roxio Toast Titanium to convert the files.

Ive ordered Roxio now and should get it anytime soon.

Now my question is what do I change the setting to so that they are friendly with youtube e.g. what format

Also once I finish converting the file I will import it into FCP and then add some writing e.g. logo etc and then upload it

Sorry to be a pain again

[poisondeathray]

fcp x should be able to import the files, there might be a specific procedure to do this, I would search various mac forums

I think a free alternative for conversion would be mpegstreamclip to convert to prores for older versions of fcp, this should work for fcp x as well if you cant get it working with native import


EDIT: have a look at this free video for importing into fcp x
http://www.larryjordan.biz/app_bin/Store/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=231