.mt2s with FCP?

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gutterball321

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I edit with FCP 7 and an iMac. I just borrowed a friends hard drive to edit some footage he filmed with a sony HD camera. The files are in a folder as .m2ts, .mood and .mood. None will play on my mac, nor can I log and transfer any of them into FCP. Is there a way to do this? I downloaded a converter and got the footage, but without buying a converter I get the watermark image and don't know if i'm losing quality doing this. Any free suggestions? Will I just need to get the footage from the camera and not the hard drive?
 
You MUST convert the files to quicktimes. FCP just won't work edit or play m2t files. Those m2t files are most likely compressed.

Since you already own FCP7 just use Compressor with the ProRes codec.
 
I'm having a similar issue in FCP6. I have a hard drive with a ton of Sony m2ts files on it. Tried transcoding in Compressor, and they're still greyed out. Can't transcode in Compressor or FCP via Log and Transfer. What gives?
 
Both MT2 and MTS files screw everything up with FCP, and neither Compressor nor MPEG StreamClip will convert them.

The only direct solution is that you have to have the footage on the original camera, with the camera's original file structure completely intact, to do a log and transfer.
 
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Best way would be to transcode mt2s to Prores or AIC. There are a lot of softwares allowing to do so. Just google it.
Aunsoft video converter for mac, M2TS to ProRes Converter to name a few.
 
Thanks for your help! This is HIGHLY annoying, but it looks like these converters have a trial, which is nice :)
 
kostas said:
Best way would be to transcode mt2s to Prores or AIC. There are a lot of softwares allowing to do so. Just google it.
Aunsoft video converter for mac,M2TS to ProRes Converter to name a few.
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Well, aside from the fact that Aunsoft and several of the other .mt2/.mts-capable converters are the ones that have long histories of spamming these forums... I had a project a few months ago shot on a camera that generates .mts files. I didn't have the camera on hand, only the files. It was a nightmare, and I finally resorted to buying one of those crappy conversion programs. From personal experience, I say don't do it. They have limited options and settings, and likely cannot convert to match your project exactly. I was not impressed at all, and was actually more frustrated than when I had started.

Again, get the footage straight into FCP from the camera using log and transfer. It's the only guarantee.
 
As Alex said, if you have the original file structure, you can use log and transfer in FCP. However, if you don't, you can use Adobe Media Encoder if you have the master suite
 
Our FS100 and FS700 create .MTS files. Mostly now we are editing in Premiere with them, but when we do need to bring them in to Final Cut Pro (7.03) we use ClipWrap http://www.divergentmedia.com/clipwrap (website states it will work for .m2t and .m2ts files too).

ClipWrap gives you the option to simply re-wrap, which is really quick with no quality loss as it simply changes it to a MOV container.. or convert to ProRes422. I don't trust it to convert so I just re-wrap and THEN bring it in to Compressor and convert it to Prores.

You can do a free trial so see if it works for you, only downside of the trial is it will only convert 1 minute of each clip. But it was just $20 or so to buy (I think?).

Hope this helps. :)
 
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