How to get Avid Media Composer work with AVCHD MTS footage?

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Does Avid Media Composer work with 1080p MTS footage? Some say yes and some say no. Do not be surprised. MTS footage captured by Sony Handycam is quite different with those by Canon EOS 7D, and incompatibility exists among different camcorder manufacturers. H.264/ AVC encoded MTS footage does not work well with video editing software except for few ones. Despite of this, H.264 codec is acknowledged as a universal codec for camcorder videos, especially for HD contents. The advanced compression method of H.264 results in much less storage and the same picture quality comparing with MPEG-4. However, the highly-compressed content are not so friendly for editing software. How to get Avid Media Composer work perfectly with AVCHD MTS footage? A best way is to convert H.264 MTS to QT MOV, something that Avide MC supports.

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You can click the above link to learn more information of the software or download a trial of MTS to Avid MC Converter to keep up with the following guide:

Step 1. Add MTS footage to the MTS to Avid MC Converter.

Once you run it, click “Add” to load the source MTS files. When the MTS files are loaded to the MTS to Avid Converter, you can view the videos from the Preview window. Simply select an item and click the “Play” button. When the video is playing, you are allowed to take snapshoot.

Step 2. Set MOV as output format for MTS to Avid MC conversion.

Click on “Format”, and select output format from the drop-down list. Follow “Common Video”>> “MOV –Quick Time (*.mov)”. This format creates videos of medium quality, if you feel like keeping higher visual quality, simply click “Settings” to se bitrate up to 10000kbps to 25000kbps. Note that the file size grows with bit rate. You may also customize other video and audio parameters in Settings panel, such as frame rate, channels, sampling rate.

When set output folder, or click the icon folder in Output box and browse to the destination folder.

Step 3. Trim, combine, de-interlace MTS footage, capture MTS frame.

Trim MTS clips: Click “Edit” to enter video editor, by default the “Trim” tab is activated, so just set start time and end time to include the duration you want to remain, cutting others out.

Combine/Join MTS files: If you would like to join several files together, just select these files and check the Merge into one box.

De-interlace MTS : Footages shot by some camcorders may be interlaced. Juggled edges and ghosting occurs when you preview the M2TS files. In that case you can set deinterlace effect to eliminate the combing. Follow “Edit”-> “Effect”-> “Deinterlacing”.

Capture frame from MTS: To thumbnail video frame, you may click the “Snapshoot” button when it plays to your favorable frame.

Step 4. Convert MTS to MOV for importing to Avid Media Composer.

Click “Convert” button and the selected MTS files will be converted to MOV. You may check the converting progress and set auto shutdown in the convert window. After conversion, click “Open” folder to find converted footage for importing to Avid Media Composer.