Canon HF200 help

[descotes]

Hi,

I used to have a miniDV tape camera and to make DVDs from it I would use Adobe Photo Elements to capture the movie, edit it and put it on a DVD. I would keep the AVI file so that I would have it as a back up.

So now I have moved to a AVCHD camera and a memory card.

I want to be able to put the movies into Adobe and edit them for DVDs as well (more often as I would like to re-use the memory card). So I plugged in the camera and all the files came over separately as MTS files. Is this the best way to do this? Should I convert the MTS files into something else? I can play them over Adobe and put them in a project to edit them but I also want to have a back up copy.

Hopefully I explained that well enough that someone could help me.

Thanks.
Stacy

[yoda313]

If you can play them in adobe than you don't need to do anything else. Edit them directly from the mts files.

For backup simply burn the original mts files to dvd and/or copy them to an external harddrive. Those will be your original sources just as your old minidv tapes used to be.

[edDV]

The MTS files are your backup. They will be high definition AVCHD (h.264) and contain all the camera metadata (date, time, camera settings,etc.). If DVD is your goal, Adobe Elements will downsize to 720x480 16:9 and output MPeg2 DVD.

It is also possible to maintain high definition by producing a so called AVCHD Blu-Ray disk on DVDR or BD/BE media for playback on a Blu-Ray player. See MultiAVCHD tutorial.

Or you can author a full Blu-Ray to a Blu-Ray writer.