Friday, February 20, 2009

How to convert AVCHD Video to AVI,MP4 with AVCHD Video Converter?

As Sony AVCHD camcorder users, I’d like to share my experience about how to convert AVCHD videos to standard video such as avi, mp4, flv videos, so you can play the converted AVCHD videos on Computer, iPod, iPhone, Zune, PSP etc, or even upload AVCHD videos to YouTube and share with your friends. This article consists of the following four parts.
1. How much do you know about AVCHD video?
2. Why convert AVCHD video to standard Video formats such as AVI, MP4?
3. How to Convert AVCHD video to popular video and play on iPod, iPhone?
4. How to Upload AVCHD video to YouTube?

1. How much do you know about AVCHD Videos?
AVCHD is short for “Advanced Video Codec High Definition”, it is the newest HD format to be released for inexpensive HD video production. And AVCHD (AVC-HD, AVC HD) video is recorded by AVCHD camcorder such as Canon VIXIA HG20, Sony HDR-UX5, Panasonic HDC-SD1 etc using the MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 video compression codec.


AVCHD Videos usually memory on recordable DVD discs, memory cards and hard disk drives. And AVCHD specification support all three high definition formats: 1080i, 1080p and 720p.


2: Why convert AVCHD video to standard Video formats?

If someone used to have AVC HD videos, he would be frustrated that there are so little devices which support AVCHD video. Normally, you can only play your AVCHD videos directly from a camcorder on a HDTV with a HDMI, or burned onto DVD disc, then played from most Blu-ray Disc player, or on a computer, playing from the camcorder connected via USB as an external storage device.

However, have you imagined playing your AVCHD videos on your PC, laptop, iPod, iPhone, Zune or any other portable mp4 players? Or even uploading your AVCHD videos to YouTube, Myspace, Facebook etc to share with all of your friends?

In order to find out a workable method to do that, I have searched relate questions on Google. Finally, I got an answer which certainly can do that – Convert AVCHD files to standard video formats such as avi, mp4, mpg, wmv, flv…etc. So that you can put the converted AVCHD videos to your iPod, iPhone, Zune, PSP etc or even upload it to Youtube. And the key step to do that is to use AVCHD video converter.


3. How to Convert AVCHD video to popular video and play on iPod, iPhone?

Here I take Wondershare Video Converter Platinum as an example to show you the step-by-step guide to convert AVCHD videos to popular video formats such as convert AVCHD Video to avi, convert AVCHD Video to mp4, convert AVCHD Video to wmv, convert AVCHD Video to flv …etc.

Step 1: Transfer AVCHD files from AVCHD camcorder to PC.
Connect the AVCHD camcorders to your PC with a USB cable. It is desirable that you copy the videos to your PC's hard-drive before converting or editing it.

Step 2: Download AVCHD Video Converter
Here we use Wondershare Video Converter Platinum to show the AVCHD video conversion process. In addition, this Video Converter also can convert hd (high definition) videos such as mts, m2ts, tp, ts, trp to standard videos including avi, mp4, wmv, flv, mpeg, rm etc.
You can download free trial Version here: Wondershare Video Converter Platinum , Then install and run this program.

Step 3: Load the AVCHD videos



Click the "Add " button to browse your computer hard disc and add the AVCHD files you want to convert to the program. Batch conversion is supported by this AVCHD video converter, so you can load several AVCHD files at one time.

Step 4: Customize output Settings
After you added AVCHD files, you can select an output format and specify a directory on your computer to save the output files. Here we select iPod MP4 as output format, so you can put the converted AVCHD video on your iPod.


Step 5: Start the conversion
Click the “Start “button to start conversion and then you can just have a coffee or take a nap, and the conversion may have been finished when you come back.

Step 6: Copy the converted AVCHD video to your iPod and enjoy it.
Connect your iPod with your computer, copy the converted AVCHD video (iPod Video MPEG-4) to your iPod, so you can enjoy the AVCHD video on the go.

4. How to Upload AVCHD video to YouTube?
Follow part 3, all you need to do is converting the AVCHD video to FLV format (YouTube video format), then login to Youtube, upload the converted video (flv format video) to Youtube.

All the conversion may take about 30 minutes with 1.2 GB AVCHD videos, and the conversion speeds usually depend on the original video site and your PC configuration. The conversion speed and output quality seem ok. Generally speaking, it is worth to use this video converter to convert AVCHD video to popular video, so you can enjoy it on your iPod, iPhone, PSP, even share with your friends on Youtube.

30 comments:

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  4. THANK YOU SO MUCH! I have SO many videos I could never upload anywhere, and it bugged me for weeks! Thanks for the great advice!

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  5. I used my new Canon Vixia F11 ( bought June this year) to record our summer vacation. It came with ImageMixer 3 for capturing and Pixela software for editing programs. Unfortunately, Pixela required 2.33 GHz of processing speed for editing work and my Laptop,( HP Pavilion with Windows Vista Home Premium installed) bought in 2008, has only 2.10 GHz of processing speed. Because of this, there was a synchronization problem.
    I therefore exported my video clips from ImageMixer 3 to Movie Maker 2 and then imported them to folders where I edited them using Movie Maker 2. I saved often and played the created Timeline in the Preview monitor window with no glitches.
    I then Published the video to a new DVD-RW disc directly from my Movie Maker project (not from Windows DVD Maker page). Movie Maker info for the disc said I had 86 minutes (2.83 GB) of edited video out of 150 minutes on the disc. My C drive has 285 GB of which 141 GB are free. I have 4.00 GB of memory.
    At first, the burning process would only do about 70% and then stop. I finally got the burning process to do a 100% burn. On playback in my DVD player (JVC Combo DVD/VHS player bought in 2008) I got the glitches (pixelated or mosaic-appearing glitches) every so often on the burned disc - after about 50 minutes of playback. I tried my Panasonic DVD player with the same result.
    I tried Publishing the edited movie going through the Movie Maker project/Publish route to my laptop At the start of the Publishing process I got a message saying the time remaining was 67 minutes and a progress bar reading 0%. The Publishing process to my laptop got as far as 76% and then stopped processing (the time remaining showed 14 minutes). A message came up saying the publishing was not complete and was I sure I wanted to cancel the process (Yes/No). I hit No and the message disappeared. Then a strange thing happened: the time remaining went up (i.e. to about 24 minutes) but the 76% never changed! The message about the publishing process not being completed etc. came up again, and after hitting No again the message disappeared. Again the time remaining increased (eventually to 134 minutes) but the 76% remained the same. I gave up and hit Yes at that point. Of course, nothing was published to the computer.
    The files that were imported from my Canon to the laptop were AVCHD with file properties type: H 264.
    I have been told I need to convert the AVCHD files to avi. Files acceptable by Movie Maker. As I have edited my AVCHD files in Movie Maker how do I convert the edited files in a Timeline to avi. Files?
    Hope you can come up with a solution.
    Ray

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    1. @ Ray
      Does your problem still exist? Or have you figured it out? If yes, then how? Kindly share the solution! how do you convert the edited video files to avi at last?
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    1. Thanks for sharing the video converter.
      But I often use Kvisoft Video to Flash converter to convert AVI to FLV or convert any video to FLV/SWF.

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  7. AVCHD Converter for Mac convert AVCHD/AVCHD Lite, MTS, M2TS files to iMovie, Final Cut Pro/Express MOV, DV, MP4, MPEG-2 on Mac os x(10.5-10.8).
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    That is easy. Just a Video Converter Pro can deal with video conversion prolems.

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  9. i got a movie that is an avi file and i need it to be an mpg file. or you know my windows media player just wont play my avi files. is there a program out there that will play and show the accual movie instead of just the sound or how do i convert it into an mpg file for free?
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  21. After a little bit of digging, I found a solution to convert AVCHD to MP4 or AVI from Macrumors.

    This way supports converting AVCHD files recorded by Panasonic, Sony, Cannon or other camcorders to MP4 format without quality loss. And it also supports to convert AVCHD to to AVI, AVCHD to MOV, AVCHD to WMV, AVCHD to ASF, AVCHD to FLV, AVCHD to WebM, AVCHD to OGV, etc.

    Hope it will help you more or less.

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