Nowadays more and more cameras and camcorders can record full HD 1080P AVCHD files even up to 50p/60p. If you have shot some magnificent footage with your Panasonic HDC-TM700/TM900 or Sony NEX-5N, you may want to import those AVCHD recordings formatted in MTS or M2TS into Pinnacle Studio for editing. Although Pinnacle Studio 15 is announced to support AVCHD files for input, it takes much time in rendering AVCHD for smoothly editing in Pinnacle Studio. The rendering makes it inconvenient for users to easily edit AVCHD MTS/M2TS videos on Pinnacle Studio.
Generally, the AVCHD format is 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/1080p and 720p video modes. M2TS/MTS files are encoded with AVC codec, which is the most effective compressing method, good for streaming, but difficult to edit. Well, in order to let Pinnacle Studio handle AVCHD footages smoothly, you’d better convert AVCHD MTS/M2TS to Pinnacle Studio compatible videos first along with some help from a 3rd-party software. If you have got AVCHD m2ts/mts files editing problems with Pinnacle Studio, check out the following guide below. Here I will throw a quick tutorial up which guides you through how to transcode AVCHD MTS/M2TS footage to Pinnacle Studio friendly formats. continue reading…