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Sergio Reis

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I guess it must be a very silly question, but I don't know how to open the clips I made with my FZ-40.

There is a mix of mov and mts files in the same card. I tried to use the Pan program that came with the camera the manual of which says I could convert lite recordings to jpeg (page 108).

It happens however that when I copy the clips from the card to the computer only mov clips are shown. I have no access to lite clips in order to convert them.

If possible, I would rather avoid buying an specific program such as Alive HD Video Converter or Emicsoft mts Converter which did a good job in trial version.

I've learned so much in this Forum that I beg the help of the experienced posters once again.
Many thanks
 
These are programs for Mac and Windows that will open mts files:

Mac OS
Icon Adobe Flash CS5 info
Icon Roxio Toast 10 Titanium info
Icon Roxio Popcorn 4 info
Icon Apple Final Cut Studio info
Icon VideoLAN VLC media player info

Windows
Icon Adobe Flash CS5 info
Icon Roxio Creator 2011 info
Icon CyberLink PowerDVD 10 Mark II info
Icon CyberLink PowerDirector 9 info
Icon CyberLink PowerProducer 5.5 info
Icon Sony Picture Motion Browser info
Icon Sony Vegas Pro 10 info
Icon Corel VideoStudio Pro X3 info
Icon Corel WinDVD Pro 2010 info
Icon MAGIX Movie Edit Pro 17 Plus HD info
Icon MAGIX Video easy HD info
Icon Grass Valley EDIUS info
Icon VideoLAN VLC media player info
 
Try VLC Player...free .. and a good Vid player...

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
or -
http://www.openwith.org/file-extensions/mts/489

VLC is in fact quite a good and useful Vid Plsayer.. but as to converting .mts files... that is quite another matter if you do not want to buy a program (there ARE many good ones to buy...) but maybe somebody will know of one...

As an Edit to the above... seems worth a try .. see if it does the job on all you want..

http://mtsconverter.com/

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eric-UK
Staffordshire
 
I do this all the time with my FZ100 (which I believe uses identical formats to the FZ40). The format for AVCHD-Lite is .mt2s, and here's how I open this:

Insert SDHC in reader and open PRIVATE/AVCHD/BDMV/STREAM to see the individual video files. Can copy to desktop folder. Click on specific AVCHD (M2TS) file and open with W7 Media Player.

If you are not using W7 then you'll need to find another reader (QuickTime ?) or convert to another format. Plenty of readers and converters available.
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If you are using Windows XP .... download and install the K-lite standard codec pack. Designate Win Media Player as your default player. Once installed you should be able to watch everything with Windows Media Player.

If you want to go a step further ... Install Windows Expression4 (free) and you can then convert MTS files to WMV (use the pull down menu and select ALL FILES). Then use Windows Movie Maker (XP) to edit and make Movie / slide shows mixing stills and video. You can also get from PapaJohn.Org a WMV HD profile that when installed into Movie Maker will allow you to save HD 720p WMV.

PapaJohn.Org has some wonderful information that can serve as a tutorial for using Movie Maker in all of it's versions.
 
I want to express my warmest thanks to TechOutsider, Midwest, ericN2, Gerry Pasternack and photoKinetic for their prompt and kind attention to my question. As a matter of fact they solved my problem.

Though a long time Panny user, I have very little experience with filming. I was overlooking two important points: I was dealing with mt2s files, not mts; the great improvements of Windows 7 if compared to Windows Vista. No sooner than I moved from my old desktop with Vista to my new notebook with 7, Media Player showed all the clips. The aspect of convertion became a secondary issue.

Once again this Forum has proved to be an invaluable source of information. Even when the threads give rise to heated debates the information they provide is sometimes more useful than specific written articles.

Many, many thanks.
 
Glad your problem is solved. The FZ35 outputs MTS files. I didn't have any interest in movies and had already purchased my HD TV and a Sony BlueRay player before my camera. The TV model I got doesn't play any type of movie and the BlueRay player only seems to want to play a movie if it's in normal dvd format (video and audio directories).

You probably don't need these now, but format factory is free and does a nice job on converting. TotalVideo2DVD is not free, but the unlicensed version works well. It displays a very faint watermark but makes a DVD that plays in my player. For short clips I just use the camera to output to the TV.
 
I'm very pleased to hear that you've got something sorted out on your bother of playing those Vid files...

But I never like to recommend anything unless I've used it or know something of it myself - and I've now actually got a Converter program that I would not hesitate to recommend or suggest to anyone. If you are into Vids then I think you really will have to use some sort of Vid Converter - it goes with that usage really - and this one REALLY is good. It not only converts more or less anything, but it has excellent Edit facilities too .. and I can heatily recommend it for at least a trial ..but I think you may well find it just very very good...

http://www.4videosoft.com/mts-converter.html
Sergio Reis said:
I want to express my warmest thanks to TechOutsider, Midwest, ericN2, Gerry Pasternack and photoKinetic for their prompt and kind attention to my question. As a matter of fact they solved my problem.

Though a long time Panny user, I have very little experience with filming. I was overlooking two important points: I was dealing with mt2s files, not mts; the great improvements of Windows 7 if compared to Windows Vista. No sooner than I moved from my old desktop with Vista to my new notebook with 7, Media Player showed all the clips. The aspect of convertion became a secondary issue.

Once again this Forum has proved to be an invaluable source of information. Even when the threads give rise to heated debates the information they provide is sometimes more useful than specific written articles.

Many, many thanks.
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eric-UK
Staffordshire
 
EricN2,

I must thank you again for a precious information. I downloaded a trial version of the 4Videosoft MTS Converter and the program seems to be quite user friendly and full of alternatives.

I'm still playing with the trial version to check its capabilities and to get acquainted with its details, in spite of the limitations of the demo version.

Thank you very much for your concern.
 
I can recommend handbrake to convert .MTS into mp4 or into other formats. It works like a charm, is free, and there is a Linux (Ubuntu) version
 
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