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How to get your Pinnacle Studio work beautifully with MTS files?

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Pinnacle Studio Ultimate is a powerful video editing tool and ranks among the best. The program comes with all of the standard editing features, as well as some unique perks, such as the ability to work with HDTV video format and original transitions and sound effects. With improved navigation and additional filter features, this video editing software is more user-friendly and hard to beat. Even with a user-friendly interface, Pinnacle Studio offers many features and customizable options. However, users find that Pinnacle Studio can not edit MTS well.

The *.mts file format is an AVCHD file (Advanced Video Codec High Definition), a video file format created specifically for high-definition (HD) digital camcorders. The format was developed jointly by Sony and Panasonic for use in their camcorders. Support for the format has grown and is now supported by Canon, JVC and Sanyo video camcorders. The format itself is based on the popular MPEG4 video codec and supports both 1080i and 720p video modes. MTS files are encoded with AVC codec, which is the most effective compressing method, good for streaming, but difficult to edit. Video editing tools to edit and convert this format are only just starting to add support for this file type, that’s why Pinnacle Studio Ultimate does not handles MTS files well.

The following tutorial will guide you through how to convert MTS footage to Pinnacle Studio Ultimate friendly format using Pavtube HD Video Converter. You can download MTS to Pinnacle Studio Converter (trial version) for trial. It is free, clean and safe to install and use.

Converting MTS to MPEG-2, MPEG-4, AVI, DV, WMV and other formats that Pinnacle Studio handles well:

Step 1. Load MTS footage to Pavtube MTS to Pinnacle Studio Converter.

Transfer .mts files from camcorder to computer via USB cable. Run Pavtube MTS/M2TS Converter as the best MTS converter, and click the "Add" button to load .mts videos.

Step 2. Set Pinnacle Studio friendly output format.

Click “Format” bar to determine output format. Follow Common Video-> AVI Video (*.avi). To maintain HD quality, you may choose HD Video > WMV HD(*.wmv) for converting MTS to 1080/30p WMV with WMV3 as video codec. The MTS converter also keeps the 5.1 channels by default.

You can also choose MPG, MP4, DV as output format, which are available in Common Video, HD Video and DV tab of MTS to Pinnacle Studio converter. The converter also works with AVCHD footages shoot by various AVCHD camcorders, like Panasonic TM350, Sony HDR-CX110, Canon HF S200, and so on.

Step 3. Determine you video resolution, bit rate, frame rate, etc

Click “Settings” if you’d like to customize advanced audio and video parameters like Video Codec, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, Audio codec, sampling rate, bit rate, channels. Notice that you can not “convert up” video quality. If you selected HD Video in Step 2, we advise you to adjust the A/V parameters to be the same with source MTS footage so as to bear least quality loss at proper file size. You may check the A/V parameters of original video in preview panel, and it will display the video information when you select an item. In case it displays no information, please click the “<” sign. To cut down file size, you may set down video bit rate, the lower bit rate you set the smaller file size you get. Do not forget to click “OK” to confirm your settings. Then type in a desired output location in the "Output" box.

Step 4. Convert MTS to Pinnacle Studio Ultimate friendly video format.

Click the convert button under the preview window, the MTS to Pinnacle Studio converter will start converting MTS for importing to Pinnacle Studio. Soon after the conversion is finished, just click “Open” button to get the generated files for edit in Pinnacle Studio Ultimate.