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Need to covert MTS video (Sony Camcorder) to formant that i can use to burn DVD

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morst:

--- Quote from: jefflester on January 04, 2023, 05:54:20 PM ---Handbrake is a great universal video conversion program. MTS is AVCD format.

DVD is still a good end product for people who might not be up on how to watch files on their TV via USB or some file sharing service, assuming they still have a DVD player.

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Agree that Handbrake is super convenient and a very powerful format converter. I've only run it on mac but it appears to run under Windows 10 also.


Sounds like DVD's will be the handy distribution format.

guitard:
Another option is to simply upload the video to Youtube.  If the band would like to keep it private, just upload it as "unlisted," and then send the link to the group of friends. 

Advantages: assuming you have a way to upload to Youtube - essentially there is no cost, requires no additional equipment, and your friends can easily watch the video on computer, phone, or tv).  Not to mention, if they wish to share the video, they don't have to have a DVD burner and blank DVDs, they just need to send their friend the link.  Lastly - they can also easily post the Youtube link on their FB page. 

Wait ... one other advantage - DVDs and standard definition.  If you upload to Youtube, you can keep the original resolution (I assume it's HD or 4K).

morst:

--- Quote from: guitard on January 05, 2023, 05:48:45 PM ---Wait ... one other advantage - DVDs and standard definition.  If you upload to Youtube, you can keep the original resolution (I assume it's HD or 4K).

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Youtube does keep screen size but reduces files in quality so they are much smaller than originals. I like the unlisted feature and use it a lot.
If this can be public, you can upload videos to archive.org under community video.

guitard:

--- Quote from: morst on January 06, 2023, 05:56:25 AM ---Youtube does keep screen size but reduces files in quality so they are much smaller than originals.
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I agree that Youtube reduces the quality of a video, but to my eyes, videos I upload to Youtube in 4K and watch on a 4K tv look as good or better than blu-ray discs (1080p) I make from the same video and play on the same tv.

Regarding file size ... using 4K Downloader, I just downloaded a one and half hour 4K video that was 35GB in size when I uploaded it to Youtube. the highest quality version of this video I was able to download from Youtube with 4K Downloader was a 12GB mkv file.  It looks marginally lower in quality on my computer screen (didn't check how it looks on my tv).  But considering it's 1/3 the size of the original file, it looks really good.

rhinowing:
check out ffmpeg if you are comfortable using command line on a PC. It should easily handle MTS file conversion

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