Not Sure What to set Handbrake at when converting MTS files

[Boracho]

Hello, this is my first post here. Looks like a great site.

I have an old Hitachi BZ-BD10HA video camera set to record at 1920 x 1080 HD. It saves everything in MTS format which none of my video editing software seems to be able to handle coherently. I am therefore converting everything to MP4/MV4 format using handbrake.

I'm not sure what I should have the handbrake settings at. Right now the "Presets" are at Fast 1080p30, with some of the following settings: FPS 30 with the (Peak Frame Rate) Radio button selected, the (encoder preset) slide bar is set in the middle, and the "Constant Quality" radio button is selected.

I am primarily interested in a quality conversion, rather than speed. I have listed my computer specs in my profile. It's a recent intel machine I put together with some of the latest and greatest equipment. As of 9 months ago, that is.

Any suggestions or comments are appreciated! Thanks!

[jagabo]

Try just remuxing to MP4, rather than reencoding.

[Boracho]

Try just remuxing to MP4, rather than reencoding.

Thank you for your answer. Can I remix with Handbrake? I've looked over the docs on how to do that and can't seem to find anything regarding it. Perhaps I'm looking in the wrong Place? Thanks...

[videobruger]

No. HandBrake always encode the video.

Use something like ffmpeg

ffmpeg -i SourceVideo.mts -codec copy Result.mp4

[jagabo]

I don't think handbrake can remux. Try AviDemux. It handles more than just AVI. Set audio and video to "copy", format to MP4.

If a simple remux works for you it will be much faster than reencoding. And there will be no loss of quality.

[Boracho]

I don't think handbrake can remux. Try AviDemux. It handles more than just AVI. Set audio and video to "copy", format to MP4.

If a simple remux works for you it will be much faster than reencoding. And there will be no loss of quality.

Thank you for the heads up! I have hundreds of MTS files and this will save me a lot of time. Does remixing result in the same high quality that re-encoding does? Thanks!

[Boracho]

No. HandBrake always encode the video.

Use something like ffmpeg

ffmpeg -i SourceVideo.mts -codec copy Result.mp4

Thanks for the link and the command line command too! Appreciate it.