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krwzmann · Post by **krwzmann** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 6:56 pm

Hi all. I have a Firestore Portable Cam Hard Drive on order and on its way to me in the next few days. It allows me to record to tape on my cam as well as to the hard drive all in High Def 1080i (using my hd cam). The file format the Firestore saves in is .m2t (the mpeg 2 transport stream) and I was wondering / hoping Media Studio Pro 8 would be able to recognize and work/edit with these files. Does anyone know?

As a test before the Firestore comes in, I rendered out a HD video project I was working on in MSP8 as a .m2t file. I then tried to start a new project and insert that .m2t video file into my timeline to work with...but MSP8 said that it was not an editable format and it needed to convert it. The convert worked out fine (and took about 10 secs for a 1 min clip) but I was hoping a conversion was not even needed and i'm hoping this will not be the same case with the Firestore.

I've read somewhere that MSP8 can edit .m2t files without conversion. Can anyone confirm this? Thanks in advance!

tyamada · Post by **tyamada** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 10:36 pm

Media Studio 8 will only edit mpg files, it has to convert .m2t files as you found out. It doesn't take long to convert the files to a format that MSP8 can edit. When MSP8 captures HD video it takes out certian information from the input stream and you get a mpg file. To get the edited video back to a HD camera the video has to be rerendered and the information put back into the output stream. After the file has been rerendered to a m2t file it can be recorded back to HD tape.

The same is true for HD Television Capture in .TS or .TP format MSP8 will not open these files and will lock up when you try. I use HDTVtoMPEG2 to convert the files to mpg to edit.

I discovered Movie Factory 5 is better with HD files than the other Ulead products to date. The only problem is it has only the basic editing features.

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 4:45 am

Although written for VideoStudio it may be worth having a read of the following:
http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic.php?t=10132
and
http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic.php?t=8369