Basic file format question

Aje wrote on 5/8/2009, 2:16 PM

I have 3 AVCHD cams Panasonic 151, Canon HF 100 and Canon HFS100 all of them use SD(HC) cards.
In all cards I find MTS files and I use Neo Scene to handle them in Vegas 8,0c which works fine.

But what is MTS files?
Does all AVCHD cams deliver MTS files?

I can´t find MTS files in Vegas 9 supported file format list.
Perhaps MTS stand for something else?
I would be glad if anyone could clear this up for me.
/Aje

Comments

JackW wrote on 5/8/2009, 2:35 PM

Good answer to your question here ,

Jack

John_Cline wrote on 5/8/2009, 2:37 PM

"MTS" stands for MPEG-2 Transport Stream. Camcorders generally use the "8.3" filename convention, eight character filename with a three character extension, in this case, MTS. AVCHD camcorders use MPEG-4 AVC / h264 compression, but it is in an MPEG2 Transport Steam format container. MTS is the same as an M2TS extension on a computer which supports long filenames.

Aje wrote on 5/8/2009, 3:33 PM

Thanks a lot!
My computer (Vista 64) should be able to show long file names but
I think SD cards could not (FAT 32 isn´t it).
So M2TS and MTS are the same - good to know.
M2TS were on the Vegas supported fileformat list but I really.
hope Vegas 9 can handle those files much better than 8,0c.
Thanks again!
/Aje

John_Cline wrote on 5/8/2009, 3:54 PM

Yes, most high capacity flash memory cards are FAT32 and can handle long filenames. For whatever reason, some camera manufacturers decided to go with 8.3 filenames, but not because of any memory card limitation.

Steve Mann wrote on 5/11/2009, 9:27 AM

"For whatever reason, some camera manufacturers decided to go with 8.3 filenames, but not because of any memory card limitation."

Because it's the lowest common denominator and any O/S can read/write it?
Because the licensing for FAT-32 is significantly higher than licensing FAT-16?