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Convert avchd .mts to .mov?

snerkler said:
oh right :eek: I guess it gets complicated if you record more than one event on the same card :confused:
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As multiple events probably don't take place on the same day, you can just make a copy of the card at the end of the day once you filmed (depending how important a proper organisation is to you) and empty the card again.
But if you do that, make sure, that the copied contents also gets backed up to another HDD via CarbonCopyCloner.

Thanks for all your help by the way, it is really appreciated :)
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Just send me a good red wine of your region some day. ;)

PS: I might have already posted that in one of your threads:
I have one 500 GB HDD for my photographs (digital and analog) and libraries and editing documents, one 500 GB HDD with my personal video footage in an editing friendly format.
Both 500 GB HDDs get backed up to one 1 TB HDD via CarbonCopyCloner.
And that 1 TB HDD gets backed up to another 1 TB HDD via CarbonCopyCloner.
Therefore I have three copies of my important data.
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simsaladimbamba said:
As multiple events probably don't take place on the same day, you can just make a copy of the card at the end of the day once you filmed (depending how important a proper organisation is to you) and empty the card again.
But if you do that, make sure, that the copied contents also gets backed up to another HDD via CarbonCopyCloner.


Just send me a good red wine of your region some day. ;)

PS: I might have already posted that in one of your threads:
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Why do I need to use carboncopycloner, can I not just copy and paste or drag and drop the entire files structure from my MBP HD to an external HD?
Does time machine not do the same as CCC?
 
snerkler said:
Why do I need to use carboncopycloner, can I not just copy and paste or drag and drop the entire files structure from my MBP HD to an external HD?
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Yes, you can, but CCC makes it easier and automatic, it can be set to do that every day. And if Finder happens to encounter an error during the copy process, it will just stop and you have to manually figure out, which data has been copied and which data hasn't.
If that happens during cloning, CCC will go on and tell you afterwards what exact problems occurred.
Does time machine not do the same as CCC?
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In a away, but since I have several external HDDs, and TM can only use one HDD to backup to, I use CCC, as I can use any properly formatted HDD I choose to backup to.
But if you have one TM HDD and one data HDD and one system HDD (the one in your Mac), you can set up TM to backup the data and system HDD to the TM HDD. No biggie.
 
simsaladimbamba said:
Yes, you can, but CCC makes it easier and automatic, it can be set to do that every day. And if Finder happens to encounter an error during the copy process, it will just stop and you have to manually figure out, which data has been copied and which data hasn't.
If that happens during cloning, CCC will go on and tell you afterwards what exact problems occurred.

In a away, but since I have several external HDDs, and TM can only use one HDD to backup to, I use CCC, as I can use any properly formatted HDD I choose to backup to.
But if you have one TM HDD and one data HDD and one system HDD (the one in your Mac), you can set up TM to backup the data and system HDD to the TM HDD. No biggie.
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Thanks again. I do have one HDD that I manually transfer to, and another I use with Time Machine so have 3 copies of everything. Plus I have my old PC laptop and PC desktop with all photos and videos stored on to date. Do you think that's overkill? lol ;)
 
Sometimes I'm getting interference on the sound, which is quite sharp and quite loud. Some files are fine if I go through the whole process again, but some still play up. Any idea why? Here's a couple of analysis (m4v and .mov) of one such clip

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simsaladimbamba said:
ClipWrap is free, ReWrap2M4V is free.


Just drag multiple files over the ReWrap2M4V icon.


Yes, as long as you keep the .mts files as backup (if you want a backup), as the .mov files are bigger than the .mts files.


Yes, they would, but pay attention to this part:
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I just have to say thank you very much for your walk through! It helped a lot. I have a question though. How much quality is lost in the MPEGstreamclip transcoding process?

My Dad mailed me files to edit and decided to give them names because he thought it would make it easier. Then he only sent the .mtf and .cpi files, thus leaving out the folder structure and 'master' files. He is not a video guy so he did not realize what he was doing. He still has the original files, so my options are right now to communicate over the phone with him the specific file structure(its different from the one you posted) and have him send each of the 'master' files(which could take a long time since this is not his realm), or transcode the footage and deal with the possible loss.

PS the camera is a VIXIA HFS21
PSS Thanks again!
 
wluprocks said:
I just have to say thank you very much for your walk through! It helped a lot. I have a question though. How much quality is lost in the MPEGstreamclip transcoding process?
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Depending on which codec one chooses in MPEG Streamclip there is no visual quality loss, as the source is already highly compressed, and if one chooses the .mov container with the Apple Intermediate Codec or ProRes codec, there will be no loss, as those codecs are less lossy than the codec the camera uses.

As matteusclement says:
try this:
take an empty pop can, place it on the floor, smash it flat, now try to pull it back to how it was.
see how it looks like crap? that's called compression
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simsaladimbamba said:
Depending on which codec one chooses in MPEG Streamclip there is no visual quality loss, as the source is already highly compressed, and if one chooses the .mov container with the Apple Intermediate Codec or ProRes codec, there will be no loss, as those codecs are less lossy than the codec the camera uses.

As matteusclement says:
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I like that quote, explains it brilliantly.

D you have any thoughts on why I'm getting noise 'interference' (see my previous post)?
 
snerkler said:
D you have any thoughts on why I'm getting noise 'interference' (see my previous post)?
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snerkler said:
Sometimes I'm getting interference on the sound, which is quite sharp and quite loud. Some files are fine if I go through the whole process again, but some still play up. Any idea why? Here's a couple of analysis (m4v and .mov) of one such clip

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I am not sure why that happens, that is where my expertise endsI guess, as I have always an external audio source which is recorded separately and also gets delivered separately, thus I have to combine audio and video again, therefore the audio does not go through all that compression stuff, which is the likely source of the problem.
 
simsaladimbamba said:
I am not sure why that happens, that is where my expertise endsI guess, as I have always an external audio source which is recorded separately and also gets delivered separately, thus I have to combine audio and video again, therefore the audio does not go through all that compression stuff, which is the likely source of the problem.
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OK, no worries. If it persists I'll see if I can edit it out. I'm also going to try converting internally ie hav everything on the MBP HD rather than converting from the external HDD. After I've converted I can always transfer to the external drive to free up space on the MBP.

Thanks again for all of your help :)
 
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snerkler said:
OK, no worries. If it persists I'll see if I can edit it out. I'm also going to try converting internally ie hav everything on the MBP HD rather than converting from the external HDD. After I've converted I can always transfer to the external drive to free up space on the MBP.

Thanks again for all of your help :)
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It still has interference if I do everything internally as well. I'll have to see if I can edit it out.

Another question about importing direct from a camera. What happens if you have photos on the same card, would these all get transferred to?
 
simsaladimbamba said:
Because you haven't installed FCP X yet.
You could choose the Apple Intermediate Codec instead.

PS: You could try HotSpotShield to get a US based IP address and try downloading FCP X again.
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Well I now have FCP installed (trial) but MPEG streamline still doesn't have the option for prores. Here's what I have:-

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I've tried both the standard version and beta version from the site you posted http://www.squared5.com/svideo/mpeg-streamclip-mac.html

Any ideas why I haven't got the prores option?
 
simsaladimbamba said:
Depending on which codec one chooses in MPEG Streamclip there is no visual quality loss, as the source is already highly compressed, and if one chooses the .mov container with the Apple Intermediate Codec or ProRes codec, there will be no loss, as those codecs are less lossy than the codec the camera uses.

As matteusclement says:
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I just tested it and there is fragmenting around certain types of motion. I kept the file in its Native Frame rate, tried both 422 and 422(lt), selected the proper deinterlace box, and tried it in 1920x1080 and 1440x1080(which is native). No matter what I get fragmenting.

Also, do you know of any plugins to beable to transcode m4v files in compressor?
 
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Well thanks to the huge help from simsaladimbamba I've now got this all to work. I can certainly recommend this method over the clipwrap one, as for me the picture quality is far superior. I had blurring issues with clipwrap, and graininess. This has all gone now.

Bizarrely since installing the prores codec the interference issue I was having on certain clips after transcoding with MPEG Streamline has righted itself (fingers crossed)
 
wluprocks said:
I just tested it and there is fragmenting around certain types of motion. I kept the file in its Native Frame rate, tried both 422 and 422(lt), selected the proper deinterlace box, and tried it in 1920x1080 and 1440x1080(which is native). No matter what I get fragmenting.

Also, do you know of any plugins to beable to transcode m4v files in compressor?
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I've just converted some interlaced footage and am having fragmenting issues too. It worked perfectly for progressive video though.
 
snerkler said:
I've just converted some interlaced footage and am having fragmenting issues too. It worked perfectly for progressive video though.
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So I've tried different interlaced video and it all has issues. Here's the analysis of the different files. Does this give any indication as to whether the problem is converting .mts (.m2ts) to m4v, or from m4v to .mov?

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Strangely, since I installed those new codecs into my quicktime library the videos are much better when converted by clipwrap now, and probably on par with this method discussed on this thread :confused:
 
Rewrap2M4Mv

I have followed all of the instructions on this forum. Seems simple enough. The files look like they are converting and even create a .m4v extension; however, the converted files are all zero bytes and so mpeg streamclip can't convert them. Suggestions?
 
DivineV said:
I have followed all of the instructions on this forum. Seems simple enough. The files look like they are converting and even create a .m4v extension; however, the converted files are all zero bytes and so mpeg streamclip can't convert them. Suggestions?
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Have you tried clipwrap? It's much easier and MUCH quicker, and uses less space on your hard drive.

I've also installed wondershare converter as was unhappy with the quality of converting interlaced footage using this method posted on here or clipwrap. This method created fragmentation, and with clipwrap you got a lot of motion blur. Interlaced footage is much better now using wondershare. However, bizarrely progressive footage is worse with wondershare than both clipwrap and this method.
 
When I use the method in post 2 I get video but no audio. What am I missing? If I use ClipWrap, I get audio.
 
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