Help with .MTS video sound Power Director 18 Ultra

CPKR

Newbie Joined: Jun 03, 2020 03:40 Messages: 2 Offline

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Jun 03, 2020 04:10

Dear All
I am a novice in video editing and need some help please.
I have a large number of .MTS video (AVCHD Sony & Panasonic) that I wish to convert to a mainstream format.
(This is so I can view them on my NAS drive running Synology Moments which has a license issue over the AC3 sound format!)

Basically on my NAS I can play the .mts video but with no sound. I realise that I can play these video's elswhere without issue but I have tens of thousands video's and photos on my Synology Moments which work perfectly and I want to stay with it.

So my questions

Can Power Director convert just the sound file within a .mts video from AC3 to AAC or indeed another format
IF NOT
Can Power Director convert .mts video to a more usable format BUT retain the original date information, this is really important as I have hundreds of videos to convert.

If anyone can help me on this I would really appreciate it

Many thanks

Craig

JL_JL

Senior Contributor Location: Arizona, USA Joined: Oct 01, 2006 20:01 Messages: 6091 Offline

Jun 03, 2020 08:35

Quote Can Power Director convert just the sound file within a .mts video from AC3 to AAC or indeed another format
IF NOT
Can Power Director convert .mts video to a more usable format BUT retain the original date information, this is really important as I have hundreds of videos to convert.

You could use PD18 "Profile Analyzer" in the produce module to find an equivalent video profile to your single source timeline video file. If this works with your source clips the video will be copied for the most part and not reencoded. During this you can change the audio to PCM.

PD will not retain any file dates from the source file to the newly produced file. You would have to use a third-party utility to modify file attributes to change the file date to match previous file dates.

Jeff

CPKR

Newbie Joined: Jun 03, 2020 03:40 Messages: 2 Offline

Jun 03, 2020 09:55

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You could use PD18 "Profile Analyzer" in the produce module to find an equivalent video profile to your single source timeline video file. If this works with your source clips the video will be copied for the most part and not reencoded. During this you can change the audio to PCM.

PD will not retain any file dates from the source file to the newly produced file. You would have to use a third-party utility to modify file attributes to change the file date to match previous file dates.

Jeff

Many thanks Jeff,

Just to make sure I have understood this correctly.
If i use Profile Analyzer to change the audio to PCM, even though the video will be mostly copied I will still need to edit the file somehow to change the dates back to the original creation time?

Sorry to be a pain!

Craig

JL_JL

Senior Contributor Location: Arizona, USA Joined: Oct 01, 2006 20:01 Messages: 6091 Offline

Jun 03, 2020 11:53

Quote Just to make sure I have understood this correctly.
If i use Profile Analyzer to change the audio to PCM, even though the video will be mostly copied I will still need to edit the file somehow to change the dates back to the original creation time?

That is correct, PD will simply create the new produced file with current date attributes. Do a google search, many utilities out there to edit file attributes, I use bulkfilechanger just because it fits my needs.

Jeff

Carl312

Senior Contributor Location: Texas, USA Joined: Mar 16, 2010 20:11 Messages: 9090 Offline

Jun 04, 2020 10:24

CPKR, Are you running Windows 7 on your computer? PD18 does not support AC3 audio on Windows before Windows 10 because of a change Cyberlink made to use the OS support for some audio formats.

Powerdirector 15 does support AC3 audio on Windows 7.

Your other option is to use a file converter to convert the video with AC3 audio to either AAC or WAV audio. Carl312: Windows 10 64-bit 8 GB RAM,AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4 GHz,ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB,240GB SSD,two 1TB HDs.