Camera and Camcorder AVCHD Video Converter

I have a Panasonic HDC-SD5 camcorder. All my videos are on my PC hard drive. I just upgraded from Windows Vista Home Premium to Windows 7 Professional. So I can play the .mts videos on Windows Media Player 12, which has added native support for H.264 and MPEG-4 Part 2 video formats, AAC audio and 3GP, MP4 and MOV container formats. Microsoft has recognized AVCHD as one of the popular implementations of H.264 encoding scheme, and has file extensions M2TS and .MTS pre-registered in the system. Windows Media Player is able to index content of these files, while Windows Explorer is capable of creating thumbnails for each clip. But now the problem is how can I merge or join all my clips recorded by my Panasonic HDC-SD5 into one and then playing with Windows Media Player 12 without losing quality. Read The Full Story

The Iomega ScreenPlay HD Multimedia Drive is a 500GB drive with the storage capacity to hold up to 2 million photos, 9,250 hours of music, or 750 hours of video, enabling family and friends to share high-resolution photos, music, and videos in the comfort of the living room, without a computer. For many AVCHD camcorder users, how to play AVCHD MTS/M2TS files on Iomega ScreenPlay media player has been a problem since Iomega ScreenPlay doesn’t give support for AVCHD files.
The guide introduces how to convert AVCHD files to Iomega ScreenPlay HD AVI format on Mac OS X to easy enjoying memories on big TV with best AVCHD camcorder software on Mac – Aunsoft Final Mate for Mac.
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Western Digital WDTV Live HD Media Player is one of the first media players that give native support for 1080p full definition videos including M2TS streams from Blu-ray discs and AVCHD camcorders. For many HD camcorder users, they have been thinking about merging/combining AVCHD M2TS video footage without any quality loss for playback via WDTV Live in big screen HDTV. Read The Full Story

I purchased Sony CX700 for shooting family videos. When looking into the files, there are a lot of files with different folders. I got multiple files when taking the mother’s day video, as I clicked the pause button on camcorder. I plugged the SD card to Popcorn Hour A-210, and it plays pretty good, expect that there is about 4-second delay when it goes to another clip. Read The Full Story

I have a great new Panasonic SD900 that also records HD video 1080/60p in the .mts file format. But with SD900 , I have recorded one is 8GB big 1080/60p mts video. And I want to delete the bunch of meaningless .mts video clips and join the avchd into one big files with retain the 1080/60p for playback. So I need a Mac Software not only can cut unwanted .mts clips but also export lossless MTS with keep the 1080/60p.I asked for some help on some forums and was recommended to try freeware TSmuxer, TSsniper which can help me to merge mts files. But it is frustrated for Mac users because most of them can only work on Windows platform.
Then one of my friend recommended flawlessly split and join 1080/60p mts software – Final Mate for Mac. Then I download and try it. And I had succeed with the cut the few meaningless mts files and the output .mts files retain the 1080/60p without recompression.

Here I would like to demonstrate the simple steps to split 1080/60p AVCHD MTS and delete the meaningless 1080/60p .mts clips and merge meaningful .mts clips into one big 1080/60p mts files without re-encoding with Mac OS X Snow Leopard on iMac, MacBook, Mac Pro. Read The Full Story

Last week I recorded some videos about my company meeting with Panasonic SD900 and I want to delete the bunch of meaningless video clips and join into one big file without conversion. So that I can playback it on my DUNE HD Player. Bundled software HD Writer AE2.1 produces strange artifacts after clips merging together. Video and audio is out of sync and sometimes the file freezes for no reason and I have to start playing from the very beginning. The experience is so frustrating that we can barely enjoy the video in my DUNE Player. So I asked for some help on some forums and was recommended to try freeware TSmuxer, TSsniper which can help me to merge mts files. But it is frustrated for Mac users because most of them can only work on Windows platform. Then one of my friend recommended to a new MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 cutter software for Final Mate for Mac exactly what I want – delete the unwant .mts clips and merge SD900 1080/60p meaningful MTS files to one single MTS files without re-encoding.And I had succeed play those merged .mts files on my DUNE Player. Read The Full Story

I have Canon EOS 7D for excellent picture, and sometimes shoot movie with it. However, I could edit it on my iMac with Final Cut Studio 2. I am running Mac OS X (10.6.3) with quad core and 4G RAM. I then installed Canon EOS MOVIE Plugin-E1 for Final Cut Pro, and it helps me import the video without error message. however, I found that some clips are shorter than what they are really taken. It seems that some frames were dropped when transcoded to ProRes.
When looking for solutions to fix EOS plugin problem, I find Aunsoft Video Converter for Mac as FCP transcoder alternative to convert EOS MOV to Apple ProRes no frame drops. It provides Apple ProRes 422, ProRes 422 (HQ), ProRes (LT) and ProRes (Proxy) and ProRes 4444 for editing in Final Cut Pro. Read The Full Story