2011
09.22

MXF file by Panasonic’s DVCPRO P2

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Last article we mainly mention what is MXF. As we all knows ,a lot of MXF file are made by Panasonic’s DVCPRO P2 camera.

P2 (P2 is a short form for “Professional Plug-In”) is a professional digital recording solid-state memory storage media format introduced by Panasonic in 2004, and especially tailored to electronic news-gathering (ENG) applications. It features tapeless (non-linear) recording of DV, DVCPRO, DVCPRO25, DVCPRO50, DVCPRO-HD, or AVC-Intra streams on a solid-state flash memory. The P2 card is essentially a RAID of Secure Digital (SD) memory cards with an LSI controller tightly packaged in a die-cast PC Card (formerly PCMCIA) enclosure, so data transfer rate increases as memory capacity increases. The system includes cameras, decks as drop-in replacements for Videocassette recorders (VCR), and a special 5.25-inch computer drive for random-access integration with non-linear editing systems (NLE). The cards can also be used directly where a PC card (PCMCIA) slot is available, as in most older notebook computers, as a normal hard disk drive, although a custom software driver must first be loaded.

Learn more about p2 ,you can browse http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P2_%28storage_media%29

Due to MXF file is a very special file，that many Digital equipments aren’t compatible with it.

There are some problems occur on us, one as follows:

After shooting some test footage on an HVX-200, onto a P2 card in DVCPRO HD 1080/60i, I am not able to import the MXF files into Final Cut Pro. I no longer have the camera, and have deduced that when I dumped the data from the P2 onto my hard drive, I failed to copy the lastclip.txt file. I am also not able to view the MXF files in any other way.

In my opinion, there are a lot of people have problems with MXF, someone want to convert it to MP4 which is accepted by PS3,someone want to convert it to mov which is accepted by sony Vegas. So a lot of software about MXF appear, in next content we talk about them. For example Aunsoft TransMXF which can deal with all MXF file by Panasonic’s DVCPRO P2.

2011
09.19

Analysis about MXF

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AS we all know, MXF is more and more popular in media, do you know what is MXF，today let me

Elaborate it.

MXF is a “container” or “wrapper” format which supports a number of different streams of coded “essence”, encoded with any of a variety of codecs, together with a metadata wrapper which describes the material contained within the MXF file.

MXF has been designed to address a number of problems with non-professional formats. MXF has full timecode and metadata support, and is intended as a platform-agnostic stable standard for future professional video and audio applications.

MXF was developed to carry a subset of the Advanced Authoring Format (AAF) data model, under a policy known as the Zero Divergence Directive (ZDD). This theoretically enables MXF/AAF workflows between non-linear editing (NLE) systems using AAF and cameras, servers, and other devices using MXF.

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2011
06.24

Leica 1080i HD videos to iMovie or FCE in Best Quality

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Nowadays, a simple device with multiple functions will make the digital life easier, and many people enjoy the convenience. Leica V-Lux 30 is one of the compact point-and-shot V-Lux series for taking photos and videos during the travel. With this great travel companion, you can use the GPS tagging function to mark location of your images and videos.
If you face problem importing the 1080i video to iMovie or FCE, you may try to convert AVCHD to AIC (Apple InterMediate Codec) for native editing on Mac. Aunsoft Final Mate for Mac is the best choice for you to get HD videos with less compression, keeping best quality. It is as easy as 1, 2, 3.

1. Import Leica 1080i videos to Aunsoft Final Mate for Mac.
Run Aunsoft Final Mate for Mac, and connect Leica V-Lux 30 to iMac via USB cable. When the camera is connected, you will face a pop-up window as camera wizard from Final Mate for Mac. Just follow the instruction to download videos to Final Mate for Mac. If you have ready download the videos from camera to computer hard drive, Final Mate for Mac would also recognize the .mts, .m2ts files, if you go to the Resource tab and add the file path which contains the mts/m2ts files.

2. Select AVCHD footage for converting to AIC.
Click on the files you would like to convert to AIC, drag and drop to the Movies tab. You can create a single movie for each file, or join multiple files into one to get separated files or one joined file from the MTS/M2TS footage to AIC conversion by Final Mate for Mac.

3. Export AIC for iMovie and Final Cut Express.
Click the Export button on the tog-right corner of the timeline section, and go to the 3rd button. Choose iMovie and Final Cut Express > Apple Intermedidate Codec(AIC) (*.mov) as output format. Choose 1920×1080 as output video resolution, then click OK to start conversion.

Wait for the conversion and then import the Leica HD videos to iMovie or FCE without rendering.

Tips:
1. You can also tick the checkbox for Deinterlace to make the interlaced 1080i video to progressive mode without obvious lines.

2. It is said that Aunsoft Final Mate for Mac and the related Aunsoft products work on the pre-release version of Mac OS X Lion v10.7. So it should also work even if you update your Mac to Lion.

2011
06.23

Watch and Enjoy Panasonic HS900 MTS to Asus O!Play with Full HD 1080P Resolution

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These days many of us have a constantly growing media library, with our favorite music, movies, and photos in a variety of formats and locations. The ASUS O!Play is designed to easily bring your media into your living room, without sacrificing quality. Enjoy video in full HD 1080p resolution, full-fidelity audio, and photo slideshows on your HDTV or home theater setup. With impressively wide format support, a wealth of connection options, and playback over a network or directly from USB and eSATA drives, the O!Play is an elegant and modern media solution. Such a cool HD media player supports formats include full hd 1080p mts.
If you are interested in recording with HD camcorder, like Panasonic HDC-HS900 which give MTS extension, you can directly put or transfer these MTS files to Asus O!Play via HDMI. However, before enjoy them with O!Play, you may want to do simply editing like cutting off unwanted or unimportant parts and then merge or join the trimmed MTS files into 1 file while keeping the same format, without losing any quality. Sometimes you can also put them in a format for devices to watch anywhere in the house or on the go.

Now I will show you a fast way to cut off Panasonic HS900 MTS clips, and then combine them into one file without conversion for playing on Asus O!Play with Full HD 1080p resolution.

Step 1. Capture MTS from Panasonic HDC-HS900 AVCHD camcorder to Aunsoft Final Mate for Mac.
Free Download and Run Aunsoft Final Mate for Mac as the fast mts cutter/joiner without conversion, and use USB cable to connect your Camcorder to PC. Then follow the camcorder wizard to import videos. After selecting the Import option, you will face the window like below to choose the video clips for importing to Aunsoft Final Mate for Mac. The videos would be listed on the “Camcorder” tab.

Step 2: Create a Movie for cutting and joining Panasonic HDC-HS900 MTS clips.
Click the Add movie button, and choose the” For Lossless Output”, a movie about cut mts for lossless output will be created by default. Then select one or multiple mts video files you would like to split/join from the Camcorder tab and then drag and drop them to Movie tab. In this way, a Movie for no re-encoding will be created.

Step 3. Split or cut off unwanted parts from HS900 MTS movie for Asus O!Play.
From the timeline, you may notice the vernier, which is used as time pointer. Click on the Vernier, and move to the timeline you want to cut, and click the Split button to cut the video. Then select the unwanted or unimportant parts and click Delete.

To change video sequences, just click on the video clip on timeline, drag and drop to the left or right for the position as you like. One movie will be exported as one file with Aunsoft Final Mate for Mac.

Step 4. Merge/join/combine HS900 MTS without conversion for Asus O!Play.
Click the Export button and choose lossless output, the HS900 MTS cutter/merger for Asus O!Play will start joining large .mts files into one mts file without conversion at the fast speed. The non-conversion process will prevent loss of quality when joining MTS files for Asus O!Play with 1080p.

After a few seconds, then connect the lossless output mts format with Asus O!Play via USB. By connecting the O!Play HD Media Player via HDMI with HDTV , you can enjoy full 1080p high-definition video and digital audio output for lossless audio transfer to your receiver or TV.

Tips:
If you think that MTS file is so large that can’t play smoothly on O!Play, you can also use this program to convert MTS file to MP4, AVI, MOV, WMV, etc with smaller size for Asus O!Play.

2011
06.22

MTS Cutter/Joiner – Lossless Canon HF M300 Full HD MTS to Panasonic HDTV with raw quality

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I am using Canon HF M300 to record videos and the camcorder saves AVCHD files in .mts format. The Canon VIXIA HF M300 captured 1920 x 1080 24Mbps Full HD Recording. I connect the Canon Camcorder to my Panasonic HDTV via direct USB. However, I found my shooting video of the HF M300 have some pause and interlace in the process of recording. So I need to delete much unwanted mts clips and join into one big files. So I asked for some help on some forums and was recommended to try freeware TSmuxer, TSsniper which can help me to split and merge mts files. But it is frustrated for Mac users because most of them can only work on Windows platform. Then one of my friend recommended to a new MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 cutter/joiner software for Final Mate for Mac exactly what I want – delete the unwant .mts clips and merge HF M300 1080/60p meaningful MTS files to one single MTS files without re-encoding. And I had succeed play those merged .mts files on my Panasonic TV.

Here is the detailed guide introduces how to split unwanted HF M300 record AVCHD .mts clips and join meaningful mts clips without conversion for playing on Panasonic HDTV with Mac OS X Snow Leopard on iMac, MacBook, Mac Pro.

Step 1: Import/Capture Canon HF M300 Camcorder AVCHD files to Aunsoft Final Mate for Mac.
Free Download Final Mate for Mac as a Best Mac Manage MTS Converter. When Aunsoft Final Mate for Mac is run, it can automatically detect and pop up a wizard for you to capture video from camcorder. The videos would be listed on the “Camcorder” tab.

Step 2: Create a Movie for cutting and joining HF M300 1080/24Mbps MTS clips.
Click the Add movie button, and choose the” For Lossless Output”, a movie about cut mts for lossless output will be created by default. Then select one or multiple mts video files you would like to split, join from the Camcorder tab and then drag and drop them to Movie tab. In this way, a Movie for no re-encoding will be created.

Step 3. Cut off unwanted parts from raw MTS movie for store.
From the timeline, to cut/trim the video, just play it and click the Split button when it plays to the frame you want, and then click the” Delete” button next to the Split button to remove the unwanted. And the Previous Frame and Next Frame buttons can help you locate each frame of the videos and cut with frame accuracy.

Step 4. Join/combine HF M300 AVCHD MTS raw footage.
To join another clip to the end of the movie, just select the file, drag and drop to the movie ID. The files will be joined into one file as output.

Step 5. Export One Big raw HF M300 MTS with no loss of quality.
Click the Export button and you click the OK button, the Mac MTS/M2TS cutter/joiner will start merging large .mts files into one mts without conversion at the fast speed. The non-conversion process will prevent loss of quality when Mac joining HF M300 avchd camcorder files for storing.

After a few seconds, I connect the Canon Camcorder to my Panasonic HDTV via direct USB. Then stream mts to TV for watching with family. The output mts also can store the video on your home server, NAS or external hard drive.

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