Anybody Got The Skinny On A QT to MTS Conversion Utility

[David Saraceno]

Wouldn't that be great to be able to write a FCP sequence to a SDHC card to play on either the WDTV or a blu ray player with slot. Or actually any NLE on either platform.

I wonder if this is technologically hard. If you transcode one way, why not the other?

 

[pailes]

The AVCHD recording standard is very similar to the Blu-Ray format. Basically AVCHD is a subset of the BD-spec without BD-J and of course only AVC encoding is supported. There is additional AVCHD meta data provided though.

To sum it up: If you have a Blu-Ray authoring tool (e.g. Toast 9) it can produce almost the structure you want but you have to keep the AVCHD encoding limits. Afterwards you will probably need to adjust the filenames to the 8.3 DOS convention and add some additional folders.