Best .mts to Quicktime .mov converter?

[nojiri]

I have a number of clips I downloaded onto my Win7 machine from a Canon HF S11 which are AVCHD .mts files, and tried to send them to someone with a Mac, but she couldn't open them. I'd like to convert them from .mts to Quicktime .mov and then resend them so she can open them. Once she opens them, she'll be doing some editing for me so I'd like to send her the highest quality resolution. What's the best .mts to QT .mov converter for that?

Thanks - nojiri

[fitch.j]

.mov is a contanier...its the codec inside that makes the difference.

You say you want to send her the highest quality, in that case use a lossless codec.

I'd suggest using the PNG codec. It's lossless like the animation codec, but gives much better filesizes than the animation codec. If your looking for a lossy compress to make smaller filesizes then i'd look at Photo-JPEG, you can run that at about a setting of 95 for some fairly good results, but they are lossy and can be noticed.

As for converters they wont make any difference on quality if your going to animation or PNG as they are lossless. The only things affected would be the encoding time.

[laithmeister]

all she needs is vlc player and it should play it just fine. Best part vlc is FREE )

[nojiri]

all she needs is vlc player and it should play it just fine. Best part vlc is FREE )

hi laithmaster,
now with vlc will she be able to open the files and also edit them? i believe she has an older version of final cut pro.

- nojiri