HDV .m2t footage - Best quality conversion to MPEG4- method/tools

[Canon GL-2 Guy]

I have a 4 min very hi quality.m2t clip that i want to fit into a dvd.

Its a gift/momento for someone at church.

I know very little about mp4 video except it saves space and is proported to look great.

An alternative is to put this onto a dvd in the avchd bluray format.

Prefer the first for starters.

Longer term, I would really appreciate any advice, pointers and tips on how to best accomplish this transformation without having to re-encode and potentially further degrade video quality.

I also have a 25 minute presentation with the same end goal in mind.

Please, what would you do if you were me?

Thanks in advance.

[Baldrick]

You must reconvert because hdv is mpeg2 (if you want a mp4 with mpeg4/h264 or avchd with mpeg4/h264 then)

But if you don't to want to reconvert you could keep it as m2t/ts and include portable software player like vlc or smplayer on the dvd.


If you must shrink then convert to a mp4 h264 with handbrake, vidcoder. Use constant quality encoding with a value around 20 for very good quality.