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I have a couple video clips(M2Ts) in a folder. When I click on Import digital media/Import from folder the OK is always grayed out so I can't get the clips. When I click the Load video (folder icon) then I can get the clips. Why is this happening?

The import digital media import function looks for only Video_TS folders, that contain VOB files.

OK thanks. I've only been playing for about an hour so there's lots to learn.

Colleen wrote:OK thanks. I've only been playing for about an hour so there's lots to learn.

Here's a great place to start.....
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vidoman wrote:The import digital media import function looks for only Video_TS folders, that contain VOB files.

I have inserted Digital Media from a directory structure AVCHD copied from my Panasonic TS3/T7 into the timeline, thus it is not only for TS folders.

Of course, while I can insert the AVCHD Lite format files into the timeline, and play each individual clip perfectly with very high quality in my Pro X2 (with patch and latest Directx) I have been unable to render any format successfully yet. The AVCHD Lite files play in any rendered version with too fast video but correct audio, repeating the video to fill in the audio time (thus audio is not synced properly). We are very close.

My current work around is to use "Free AVCHD Converter V1.0" at http://www.koyotesoft.com/ to convert the AVCHD Lite files into fairly high quality mpeg files for inserting into the timeline... Al

...convert the AVCHD Lite files into fairly high quality mpeg files

But that is the important bit... What exact properties are you converting to, since AVCHD is already 'high quality mpeg'. It is of course mpeg-4. So are you converting it to another flavour of mpeg-4 or do you mean you are converting it to high definition mpeg-2 -- namely, HDV?

Ken Berry wrote:

...convert the AVCHD Lite files into fairly high quality mpeg files

But that is the important bit... What exact properties are you converting to, since AVCHD is already 'high quality mpeg'. It is of course mpeg-4. So are you converting it to another flavour of mpeg-4 or do you mean you are converting it to high definition mpeg-2 -- namely, HDV?

Thanks for your help getting me re-instated. As I mentioned to you via e-mail, the Free AVCHD Converter link I supplied can convert to a number of formats, with default mpeg2, 1280x720, 25 fps... Al

What's the default bitrate used with that 1280 x 720 mpeg-2? It is not HDV format as such, since that is fixed at 1440 x 1080 and a CBR of 25,000 kbps.

I am also not sure exactly what you could do with it. To burn to a standard DVD, of course, it would have to be downconverted once again to 720 x 576/480... And to burn to a Blu-Ray disc, it would either have to be reconverted back to AVCHD or to standard HDV. I confess, though, that I am not certain whether mpeg-2 at 1280 x 720 would qualify in its own right as a format which can be burned directly to Blu-Ray. 1280 x 720 AVCHD/mpeg-4 of course is such a format. But as I say, I am not sure about the mpeg-2 variety... and a quick Google search has not enlightened me, I am afraid.

The speed problem you mention when playing back your original video might be accounted for by the possibility that VS is seeing it as the more 'usual' 1280 x 720p which uses a frame rate of 60 fps (or 50 fps for PAL). I am assuming your original AVCHD Lite uses an NTSC framerate of 29.97 fps (or 30i)...?

In that regard I also note that the conversion program you use is producing mpeg-2 with a PAL framerate of 25 fps... Does it not give you an NTSC option?

Ken Berry wrote:What's the default bitrate used with that 1280 x 720 mpeg-2? It is not HDV format as such, since that is fixed at 1440 x 1080 and a CBR of 25,000 kbps.

So many good questions Ken. I have just started in this new world of AVCHD. My movies are videos shared with families via a NAS, so I seldom burn DVD's. The default bit rate is 9000 for video and much less for the audio. I am just starting to move to making my videos in some HD as my family is starting to get HD displays, so I have much to learn yet. I think the progra can produce NTSC videos, but I have a ways to go to understand that program (I am not the author)... Al