OT: M2T files to MAC

Shergar wrote on 4/21/2008, 10:35 AM

I've got to deliver a lot of HDV source files captured in Vegas over to a Mac guy... who now tells me that neither FCP nor AVID can read the clips on his Mac.

Surely there must be a simple solution to this that doesn't involve recapturing everything?

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Laurence wrote on 4/21/2008, 2:46 PM

One would hope so, especially given that the m2t encoding is done by the camera itself and not some weird Windows or Vegas thing.

michaelshive wrote on 4/21/2008, 2:55 PM

Yet another wonderful weakness of the big boys. You (or your mac guy) could download Streamclip to transcode the files to Quicktime. It is a free download here:

http://www.squared5.com/

farss wrote on 4/21/2008, 3:40 PM

There's a free utility from Sony that'll rewrap the m2t files from the DR60 HDD recorder to mov. Can't imagine any reason why it'll not work with any m2t files. If I can believe Sony it's very fast.

Bob.

Cliff Etzel wrote on 4/21/2008, 5:57 PM

Bob - you have a web link for that utility???

Edit: Found the utility - but I can't seem to get it to recognize a folder on my machine - reading the specs of the app, it appears it will only work with FAT32 formatted drives. All of my drives are NTFS.

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farss wrote on 4/21/2008, 6:09 PM

i was afraid you were going to ask me for that:

http://www.sony.com.au/objects/Other/HVRDR60/html/soft.html

Bob.

Shergar wrote on 4/22/2008, 7:05 AM

Thanks chaps. For what it's worth MPEG Streamclip seems to crash loading any of my M2T files saying "one or more transport stream files have a bad size". Well it is free software, so perhaps I shouldn't have expected too much.

I'll try to get him (the mac guy) to install the FCP plugin but given that it's a utility designed to work with a drive neither of us has, I can already hear him saying "just let me have the tapes".

I must admit to being gobsmacked - it's 2008 and Mac apps can't work with PC-captured HDV files???

Spot|DSE wrote on 4/22/2008, 9:29 AM

MPEG strteamclip, Flip4Mac will convert them. The Sony utility only works on FAT32 files.

Cheno wrote on 4/22/2008, 2:36 PM

"it's 2008 and Mac apps can't work with PC-captured HDV files???"

It's a PITA either way. PC to Mac or Mac to PC.

Laurence wrote on 4/26/2008, 12:19 PM

MPEG strteamclip, Flip4Mac will convert them. The Sony utility only works on FAT32 files.

OK, I've got Steamclip and bought and installed the $20 Quicktime mpeg2 codec. Steamclip will now load an m2t clip. What should I save it as? A ".ts" file?

Shergar wrote on 4/27/2008, 6:51 AM

Laurence, you're having more luck than me - it rejects all my M2T files as "bad stream length". Anyway... don't output as TS - that's transport stream, which is exactly what doesn't work on the Mac. You need to convert to MPEG