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Editing and Sharing Copa America AVCHD Footages
People lucky enough to be in Argentina during July 2011 should definitely not forget to bring the camcorder and record the most exciting match. However, most digital camcorders record videos in mts, m2ts, mod, tod formats, which is incompatible with most portable players and video editing or sharing programs like YouTube, iMovie, FCP, etc. In this article, I'll introduce you some basic camcorder edting and converting software that will let you perform some routine tasks with your Copa America AVCHD footages. Here's what you can expect.
Video editing programs for Copa America AVCHD footages
For the most part, the software that is packaged with your camcorder is designed to read and do some very basic functions with your Copa America video. While you shouldn't expect to edit your Hollywood blockbuster on the included software, many video editing software manufacturers are offering consumer versions of their professional products, making great video editing software packages affordable for people who want to edit their Copa America videos at home.
- iMovie: iMovie is a consumer-level movie editing tool available as part of the iLife bundle of media tools. It offers many options for editing video and audio, and adding photos, music and narration to your movies.
- Final Cut Pro X: Final Cut is the professional video editing program from Apple, and the software of choice for most professional Mac users. It is fast and powerful, with a wide array of video transitions, templates, and effects for enhancing your videos. It also supports non-linear and non-destructive editing of a wide variety of video formats. You can easily mix video files of varying formats and resolutions without having to spend time recoding the files.
- Windows Movie Maker: Although Windows Movie Maker has played second fiddle to the robust iMove in the consumer market—especially since were released around the same time—it's tough to beat free when all you need is basic editing. Windows Movie Maker supports video transfer from most consumer camcorders via FireWire and USB, and sports a time-line-based interface for easy drag and drop shuffling of your video clips.
Note: For the most part, you'd only have to worry about your camcorder file format if you wanted to perform editing on your video or burn a DVD. However, if your computer can't display your camcorder video, chances are the video is in a file format your software cannot read. If you've found yourself unable to use a certain video in the way you wanted because the format wasn't supported, video converter software can help.
AVCHD Converting programs for sharing Copa America camcorder videos
If you want to watch your home movies on DVD, smartphone, portable media players or even upload the video to YouTube for sharing, you may need to transcode your video - i.e. turn it into a file format that can be recognized by these devices, or to a format supported by YouTube.
iFunia AVCHD Converter for Mac:iFunia AVCHD Converter is a really easy to use AVCHD Converter and AVCHD editor designed specially for Mac users.- just choose your source file and output format and go. If you need them, there are lots of advanced options too like batch conversion, file merging, and video editing.
HandBrake: HandBrake is an incredibly easy to use free video converter that's most useful for converting pretty much any video file you might have into one that'll work with your mobile device. You can queue up a bunch of files and choose a format to convert them too. I found converting to the preset Apple TV settings works pretty well for importing into iMovie.
FFmpeg: As far as free MTS video conversion tools, ffmpeg is the only one I've gotten to transcribe the MTS video completely. And ffmpeg is the only one to extract the audio. The only problem with this is that some people report that the default 25 fps of ffmpeg is causing sync issues with 30fps content. It's truncating at the end of the audio, which is still a few frames shy of what should have been 60i / 60 fps content converted to 30 fps content.
Uploading Copa America self made videos to YouTube
Whether you want to post your videos to Facebook or YouTube or send them to friends and family via email, you will find that most of the video sharing site don't support the AVCHD video format, However, you may also get the best uploading results from converting your file to the best format for YouTube(say MPEG4 video with MP3 audio) with iFunia AVCHD Converter for Mac.
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