Can this 3 step nightmare be simplified?

[gene0915]

After lots of reading and playing around, I finally arrived at my destination but sit back and please read what I'm doing and offer up (if possible) a simpler suggestion:

My ultimate goal is to take raw AVCHD (MTS) files from my camera and wrap them into a single file that has an accompanying SRT file (which holds the date the video was recorded). Sounds easy enough but here's my current steps.

First, run the multiple MTS files through a batch file that calls tsMuXeR and eac3to (can't use tsMuXeR alone since it makes the audio go out of sync when joining multiple MTS files so eac3to is needed to correct the audio drift) and this gives me a single .m2ts file.

Second, I use avchd2srt-core.exe to crunch through all those multiple MTS files to get their original date/time code which is saved in multiple .SRT files.

Third, I use Subtitle Workshop to join all those .SRT files from the 2nd step into a single SRT file.

All done. I have my .m2ts file and the accompanying .srt file so my TV media box can play the movie and when I turn on subtitles, I see the date/time the video was originally recorded.

Is there a better way to do all this? Along with jumping through all these hoops to accomplish my goal, it's driving me nuts that I can't find a way change how Subtitle Workshop displays the SRT info. I asked in the avchd2srt-core thread if that program can ONLY pull the date info and not the time. But, if that's not possible, it would be nice to be able to chop off (easily) what I don't want once the SRT is loaded into Subtitle Workshop. Since that avchd2srt-core.exe programs pulls not only the date, but time, Subtitle Workshop happily uses the time info along with the date and I want to eliminate the time part of the subtitles.

[edDV]

Your original AVCHD was m2ts even if the capture software says mts.

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My ultimate goal is to take raw AVCHD (MTS) files from my camera and wrap them into a single file that has an accompanying SRT file (which holds the date the video was recorded). Sounds easy enough but here's my current steps.

For what purpose? For court presentation? If so AVCHD is suspect since time stamp is separate from the elementary video stream. Anyone can distort time code. Lesson... archive the full AVCHD folder. More defensible but not by much.

I should go into the "expert witness" business.

[gene0915]

Your original AVCHD was m2ts even if the capture software says mts.

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My ultimate goal is to take raw AVCHD (MTS) files from my camera and wrap them into a single file that has an accompanying SRT file (which holds the date the video was recorded). Sounds easy enough but here's my current steps.

For what purpose? For court presentation? If so AVCHD is suspect since time stamp is separate from the elementary video stream. Anyone can distort time code. Lesson... archive the full AVCHD folder. More defensible but not by much.

I should go into the "expert witness" business.

The only reason I wanted them wrapped into a single file is because my TV media player box doesn't have a 'continuous play' mode if I point it to a folder with a bunch of similar files in it.

As for the date stamp......not for a courtroom but rather my living room for when I watch these videos with my grandchildren 30, 40, 50 years from now. When that time comes, I want to know what day the video was originally recorded since I'm sure my memory will be fading by then.

[edDV]

As for the date stamp......not for a courtroom but rather my living room for when I watch these videos with my grandchildren 30, 40, 50 years from now. When that time comes, I want to know what day the video was originally recorded since I'm sure my memory will be fading by then.

Again you can get this metadata info from a full AVCHD folder backup. It adds little to file size.