Convert split MTS files to MP4

[AJWhite1970]

Morning all

 

I've got some mts files back from a Sony Handicam that I need to convert to mp4 and I don't have the luxury of access to a Mac on-site.

 

Looking on t'internet there are thousands of software converters for the job, most of which probably come with "added extras" hidden in the installers.

 

Could someone please recommend a piece of software that's safe to download and run that is up to the job?

 

Thanks as always

Andrew

[Mark182]

I've used this in the past

[dapaulio]

I have two video converters one called hand break which I use for majority if not all conversion. It free and good. I also use not so often magic video converter premiumish [emoji6]. TBH I really don’t know why I have mvc.

Don’t have to use it often. The only logical reason I can think of

I can’t remember if handbreak can convert mts or whether it is one of the extensions it doesn’t support.

Try it.

[jthompson]

FormatFactory will do it for you. It's a free universal transcoder. I've been using it for years and it's my goto for any video transcoding jobs.

 

For MTS files, you may need to manually change the file extension to mpg before importing it to a transcoding job in FormatFactory (I've noticed that the transcoding job can sometimes fail for an MTS file otherwise). You can also use FormatFactory to join videos together.

[AJWhite1970]

Thanks everyone, looks like FormatFactory is my weapon of choice

[bald_pig]

I use handbrake, I never trusted FormatFactory with the dodgy translations!

 

https://handbrake.fr/

[Arthur]

Could someone please recommend a piece of software that's safe to download and run that is up to the job?

I use FFmpeg with the following script. Just put it in the same folder as the .mts files and then run. Super easy!

 

setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
set SCRIPTDIR=%~dp0
set SCRIPTDIR=%SCRIPTDIR:~0,-1%

pushd "%~dp0"

:: Prompt for output filename
set /p videotitle=Name of output file (WITHOUT extension)?

(for %%i in (*.mts) do     @echo file '%%i') > videos.txt
ffmpeg.exe -f concat -i videos.txt -c copy "%videotitle%.mts" && ffmpeg.exe -i "%videotitle%.mts" -c:v libx264 -crf 18 -preset slow -c:a aac -strict -2 -b:a 192k -ar 48000 -ac 2 -pix_fmt yuv420p "%videotitle%.mp4"

:: To resize videos to half their original resolution add the following parameter to the ffmpeg command: -vf scale=iw/2:-1

del videos.txt

popd

 

Edit. The first line of the script has an @echo off, but the CODE tags don't work if I include it.

Edited November 13, 2017 by Arthur