This month I ran into a few instances where a student had recorded video under the file extension MTS, which is a HD file extension used by Sony and Panasonic cameras. When the student tried to import this into iMovie for editing, the program would not accept the video. I had never seen this extension before but after I did a quick search I learned that it could be easily converted to MOV or any other video format. A few converter websites ask the user to download software in order to convert the video. I found a website called zamzar.com which allows the user to convert video without having to download any software. You can easily upload the file to the website, and they email you the converted video file.This website worked great and converted the files pretty fast. But of course there is a catch, you can only upload up to 10 files to be converted for free.
While this website is nice for students to use away from the Center, I would suggest using Adobe media Encoder rather than a web service for file conversion in-house. It is a very good piece of software that comes with CS6, has no file number limitations, and will not put any annoying watermarks on the footage that some free to use web services do.
ReplyDeleteYou can import MTS files into iMovie if the files are in the AVCHD folder (and the user hasn't changed or moved the files around). You would just go to File-->Import-->Camera Archive. The new version of iMovie (2013) provides native support for AVCHD, so you can import MTS files without any problem.
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