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Pavtube MTS Converter-help you author MTS files to Standard DVD with Ulead DVD MovieFactory 6

MTS files are AVCHD videos with perfect video quality, but the MTS format is not so widely accepted by editing software and media players as common video formats like MPEG, WMV and AVI, even most HD (High-definition) digital camcorders produce MTS extension files, especially for Sony Handy cams. Besides, the MTS files must be burned to HD DVD or blu-ray disc to obtain the original HD quality (usually 1920*1080). Even if you find some tricks to burn the MTS files onto standard DVD, it will turns out with degraded image and slow motion. In a word, you can not enjoy the HD effect unless the MTS files are burned onto HD DVD or blu-ray disc. Taking the cost of HD DVD and blu-ray disc into consideration, it is acceptable to author MTS footage to DVD with some quality degradation but more fluent motion. How to optimize MTS footages for burning onto standard DVD with least quality loss? The following guide might give you some hint.

Software you will need:
Pavtube MTS Converter, a powerful MTS to DVD solution that allows you to convert MTS to most DVD authoring software and portable devices (iPad, iPhone 4, Android, Blackberry, etc) with excellent visual quality. It is also able to cut off unwanted frames and combine MTS together as one file.
Corel Ulead DVD MovieFactory 6, one of the most popular DVD authoring utilities.

Step 1. Load MTS files to PavtubeMTS to Corel DVD MovieFactory 6 Converter.
Pavtube MTS to DVD MovieFactory 6 converter can help you convert and burn your MTS videos to standard DVDs. It converts MTS for DVD authoring in Corel Ulead DVD MovieFactory 6, and supports creating AVI, MPEG, MKV, MP4, VOB, MP4, WMV, and more compliant DVD Video set of files for authoring DVD.

You may either click “Add” button to import .mts files, or directly drag and drop the files into this program. You are allowed to take snapshots when previewing the movie. Double-click on a file to preview when you would like to preview it.

Step 2: Click the drop-down menu of “Format” to select output format
With multiple output formats, Pavtube MTS to DVD MovieFactory Converter is able to output proper formats for numerous video editing software and portable devices. To burn a DVD in Corel DVD MovieFactory 6 with the generated files, I select Common Video-> MPEG-2 Video (*.mpg) as output format. Alternative formats are AVI, WMV and VOB. By the way, if you’d like to combine multiple MTS files to be a single file, you can tick the checkbox “Merge into one file”.

Step 3: Click “Settings” button to adjust audio and video parameters
To make good control of the output file size and quality, you can adjust all the items in the following interface, including codec, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, and audio channels. For standard DVD, a recommended setting is

Video
Codec: mpeg2video
Size (pix): 720*480 (NTSC) or 720*576 (PAL)
Bitrate (kbps): 8500
Frame rate (fps): 29.97

Audio
Codec: mp2
Sampling rate (hz): 48000
Bitrate (bps): 96000bps
Channels: Stereo

As the source MTS files are AVCHD MTS videos and usually with AC3 5.1 audio, you can retain the 5.1 audio by adjusting the audio codec to ac3 and bitrate to 224000bps (or above), then select 5.1 Channles in drop-down list of Channels box as it shows below.

Step 4. Click “Edit” to cut off unwanted frames.
Pavtube MTS to DVD MovieFactory Converter can record and convert exactly your favorite section of the video by trimming function.

To trim a video, please click “Edit” menu, switch to “Trim” tab, and follow any of the following methods:

Drag the control strip (slider) to cover the segment you want to remain.
When previewing the video, click the left square bracket to set start point, and click the right square bracket to set end point.
Input specific value in Set start time and Set end time.

Step 5: Click “Convert” button to start conversion
The following window will show you clearly about the conversion information, which will help you to manage your time and storage space in a proper way. If you do not want to wait for the whole conversion process through, you can choose “Shut down computer after conversion” to leave it alone. After the conversion completed you can click on “Open” button in the main interface to get the generated files and load the converted files to Corel Ulead DVD MovieFactory.

Find more details about authoring DVD with Ulead DVD MovieFactory.

[Sharing]Import/load/download/open FLV files into iMovie for via Pavtube FLV Converter for Mac

Many video-sharing websites like YouTube, Google Video, metacafe, Yahoo! Video, Reuters.com, etc. always provide people with original videos about meaningful, interesting, or important events that happened all over the world in real time, and nearly all of them use FLV format to save these video files. Maybe you have collected many sorts of your favorite videos downloaded from the above mentioned video websites, and want to import them to your free editing program iMovie to do further editing, so that you can enjoy your own works on local computer or upload them to your website or blog to share with your friends or other people, or copy them to your electronic gadgets such as iPod, iPhone, PSP, Blackberry, etc. for playback.

However, FLV files can not be imported to iMovie directly, because iMovie only supports formats like DV (standard definition), HDV (high definition), MPEG-2, and AVCHD from Camcorders, MPEG-4, and MOV files. Hence, supposing you want to add FLV files to iMovie without troubles, you should convert them to iMovie acceptable formats like MP4, MOV firstly. It is the only way to achieve your goal smoothly. For this purpose, this article will show you how to import FLV files to iMovie for editing in detail.

Step 1: Download, install and run Pavtube FLV Converter for Mac

Step 2: Add FLV files and specify the destination folder
Click “Add” button to import FLV files, and then click the drop-down list of “Format” to select an iMovie compatible format to convert, here I take .mp4 for example. If you want to combine several FLV files to be a single one, you can choose “Merge into on file” to realize it. At the same time, you should hit “Browse” to decide where to locate the output files; otherwise, they will be exported to a defaulted folder.

Step 3: Set advanced settings
Click button “Settings”, the following panel will show up. You can adjust parameters like codec name, screen size, bit rate, frame rate and so forth on it according to your own requirement.

Step 4: Convert
After the above three steps have done, you can press “Convert” to start converting. The following interface will show you the converting progress as well as elapsed time, remaining time, generated file size and estimated file size. All these would remind you how long time the conversion will cost and how much space it will occupy.

Step 5: Import the output MP4 files to iMovie
As soon as the FLV files have been converted to MP4 or other iMovie workable format, you can click “Open” to find out the output files. Afterwards, launch iMovie, and click File>Import to add the output files to iMovie for editing.

Well, the step-by-step instruction is completed; hope it can do you a favor while importing FLV files to iMovie for editing.

[Reviews]Pavtube MTS Converter for Mac-import MTS and M2TS files shot by AVCHD camcorder to Final Cut Pro

Final Cut Pro 7 makes it possible and easy to work with the latest file-based devices from Panasonic, Sony, Canon, and JVC. Through using the Log and Transfer function in Final Cut Pro, users are able to ingest MTS and M2TS files shot by AVCHD camcorder. However, because of its not cheap cost, some Mac users have not upgraded to the latest version of Final Cut Pro 7, but still in use of the older version. As the popularity of AVCHD camcorders, more and more people have become owners of such a kind of camcorder, at the same time, the problem emerged that the old version FCP can not directly recognize MTS and M2TS files shot by AVCHD camcorder. With the special intention of solving this problem, this article will show you how to import MTS and M2TS AVCHD files to FCP via the help of Pavtube MTS/M2TS Converter for Mac.

Frankly speaking, what Pavtube MTS/M2TS Converter for Mac will do is just converting MTS and M2TS files to FCP compatible format. Following is its detailed user instruction, if you have such requirements, please feel free to move on with it.

1. Add MTS and M2TS AVCHD files to this program

Once launched this program, the following friendly blue-sky interface will pop up, on which you can click “Add” button to load MTS and M2TS files.

2. Select FCP compatible format as output format and set save path

Click the drop-down list of “Format” to select FCP compatible format as output format, here I choose MOV for example. Click “Browse” button to specify where to store the output files. Moreover, if you have the need of joining multiple MTS and M2TS to be as a single file, you are able to achieve this goal via ticking the checkbox “Merge into one file”.

3. Set advanced settings

Click “Settings” button, then you will see the following interface, on which you are allowed to adjust audio and video parameters like codec name, bit rate, aspect ratio, frame rate, and audio channel. In principle, the larger input values, the larger file size, but accompanying with the better file quality; the smaller input value, the smaller file size, but in accordance with the more inferior file quality. That is to say, if you want to do advance settings, you’d better make a balance between the file size and file quality.

4. Start converting MTS and M2TS files to FCP format

Once all the above settings are finished, you can click “Convert” button to start converting MTS and M2TS AVCHD files into FCP supported format. The interface below will present you clearly about conversion progress, time elapse, left time, generated file size, and estimated file size. After conversion is done, you can easily find out the output files for FCP via clicking “Open” button.

Well, finished, what you should do next is just adding the output files generated from MTS and M2TS AVCHD files to Final Cut Pro for editing.

How to convert MTS file to MOV for edit in FCP on Mac?

If you have shot hours of footage on a Sony HD recording camera or JVC Everio, things might be not so easy for you to get the MTS files imported into Mac non-linear editing software like FCP and iMovie, even though on paper it should. I believe most guys that shoot AVCHD footage would like to do sort of editing work and make the MTS footage into short film, just like me. So, is there any way to transfer the MTS footage into FCP compatible file? Here I would recommend you Pavtube MTS/ M2TS Converter for Mac, which will convert MTS to MOV and other QuickTime container formats that are accepted by Final Cut Pro. The app works well on Mac OS X and handles TS, TP, M2TS, M2T format as well. The following guide tells you how to convert MTS file to MOV format for edit in FCP step by step. You may download the trial version of the Mac MTS to MOV Converter. There is no restriction for trial version, only a Pavtube Logo will be put on converted videl. Just try it out.

Step 1. Load MTS file.
Copy your MTS footages to Mac, install and run MTS/ M2TS Converter. Click on “Add” to import source files, browse to the drive and click “Choose”. You do not have to open the any of the folders. In preview window you could view the video and take snapshots. When the box of Merge into one is checked, all selected videos will be combined together as one output file after conversion.

You can click “Edit” button to perform edit functions such as crop, trim, flip, effect, watermark and audio replace. To eliminate interlacing effect, simply check Deinterlacing box under Effect tab.

Step 2: Set MOV as output format.
Click on “Format” bar when you’d like to specify an output format. MOV formats can be found in common video, HD Video, and FCP/ Sony Vegas groups. Belows shows the H.264 HD MOV format under the tab of “HD Video”.

Click “Settings” if you want to further customize video and audio parameters such as video codec, audio codec, frame rate, bit rate, video size, audio channels etc. Do not forget to click on “OK” to confirm your settings. In Export to box you could specify destination for the converted file.

Step 3: Start converting MTS to MOV for FCP.
Click on “Convert” button to start Conversion. The converter will generate MOV file with admirable video quality. The MTS files are HD video with huge file size, so the conversion of MTS to MOV may cost lots of time. You can set auto shutdown before conversion starts. Simply click on the “Option” menu and check the box of “Shut down computer after conversion”.

Step 4. Import converted video to FCP for editing.
After conversion you can click the “Open” button to locate converted files and load the MOV files to FCP. Now you are able to edit the MTS footage in FCP freely. You may also convert MTS to M4V, AVI, MPEG, etc for FCP editing too.