During the most special and happy family days of the year,  what have you done to enjoy this amazing Christmas and New Year holiday? Have  you held a party with your big family and friends, or traveled around some  attractive places with your lovers and kids, or done something else you were  looking forward to for a long time? Whatever you did, you must have not forgotten  recording all the meaningful and unforgettable moments as precious memories via  a Canon, Sony, or Pansonic AVCHD camcorder. Then it is a good idea to upload  these charming things shot by your camera onto YouTube for sharing with everyone  else in the world.

However, if you have this thought, you should know that AVCHD  camcorders save footages in the format of MTS and M2TS, which are out of the  range of YouTube supported formats, they are .FLV, .MKV, .MOV, .WMV, .AVI,  MPEG, .MP4, DivX, 3GP and .OGG, therefore, in order to upload MTS and M2TS  video files onto YouTube successfully, you have to convert these files to  YouTube compatible formats as above mentioned previously.

At the same time, one more thing you must notice, that is  video files uploaded to YouTube by standard accounts are limited to 10 minutes  in length and 2 GB in size and only partner account holders are permitted to  upload videos longer than 10 minutes. That means you should compress the length  and size of your footages to fit the two requirements. Don’t worry,the following part will show you how to upload camcorder footages onto YouTube via Pavtube HD Video  Converter in  detail, just feel free to go through with it.

First, how to make great video:
1. Choose a camcorder to suit your needs;
The following has listed some camcorders for you, according to your needs, choose the most suitable one:
Mini DV camcorders are cheap, reliable, and widely compatible, shooting standard-definition video;
Mini DVD camcorders can shoot video with lower-quality than Mini DV camcorders and play back video instantly on it or a DVD player. The produced video is more difficult to edit.
AVCHD camcorders have ability to produce high-definition video, with high price and the hard-to-edit shot video.
Flip Video Camcorders are portable, easy-to-use solution for capturing everyday moments that happen anywhere, and sharing them with family and friends everywhere
If It was me, I would choose an AVCHD camcorder or flip video camcorder.

2. Shoot video with your chosen camcorder
Before shooting, you can refer to some basic camcorder shooting tips: http://camcorders.about.com/od/videorecordingtips/a/ShootingTips.htm. Well prepared, you can shoot your video with your camcorder.

3. Perfect your capturing video
After you capture videos, you can perfect them with some video editing software. The best recommended ones are iMovie, FCE and FCP. But if you are unsatisfactory with them and own flip video, there is another great flip video editing software,Pavtube HD Video Converter for MAC, which can easily edit your flip video on mac.

Second, Where to place or share these videos
Youtube is the first choice to share home videos for most people. Youtube accepts a wide range of video formats, as following: Windows Media Video (.WMV), .3GP (Cell Phones), .AVI (Windows), .MOV (mac), .MP4 (iPod/PSP), .MPEG, .FLV (Adobe Flash), .SWF (Shockwave Flash), .MKV (h.264). Please check the format before you upload your camcorder video to youtube for share.

Actually, to share products video to make promotion for companies and organizations, alternative method to get more attraction is to embed video into website to add your product videos to your company home page so that it can win more visitors and traffic.

So, how to embed camcorders video to website? If you own AVCHD camcorder, please visit the Guide: Publish video to web from AVCHD to Flash.

As we all know, Windows Movie Maker is the free video editing software installed on a PC using Microsoft Windows OS. However, probably because of the copyright issues, Windows Movie Maker only provides supports for a relative small range of formats. I’d like to list them out.

Windows Movie Maker accepted formats:

.WMV, .ASF, .MPG (MPEG-1), .AVI (DV-AVI), .WMA, .WAV, and .MP3
Additionally, the Windows Vista Home Premium and Ultimate editions of Movie Maker support importing MPEG-2 Program streams and DVR-MS formats.

It is obviously that AVCHD .mts and .m2ts files are out of this range, and if you try to capture these videos to Windows Movie Maker, it will prompt you that:

My question is that how to make it possible to let Windows Movie Maker workable with them? Up to now, the only answer I have got is that doing format conversion is absolutely necessary. Then what program can work well to do this? Through some attempts on several utilities I searched on Google, finally Pavtube HD Video Converter stands out from the others. Before using it, I’ve tried some similar converters as well, virtually all of them can transfer mts/tod/mod/mov to Windows Movie Maker compatible format, but always bring problems one or another, like terrible conversion speed, audio and video out of sync issues, etc. This one does not have these issues, so it won my appreciation, of course.

Well, back to the point, my post aims to show you a detailed instruction of how to convert AVCHD files for importing to Windows Movie Maker via Pavtube, just go through with it to see whether it is what you need or not. Okay, here we go.

You can download this AVCHD video converter here, and then install and run it.

Step 1: Click “Add” button to load your .mts/.tod/.mod/.mov camcorder files.

Step 2: Select output format and set destination folder

Click the pull down menu of “Format”, you will be able to select a Windows Movie Maker supported format from the output format profile, here I choose .wmv for example. Meanwhile, click the folder icon at the end of “Output” to specify where to store the output files for your WMM, if not, this program will export them to the default save path automatically. BTW, if you want to combine multiple .mts files into a single file, you can tick “Merge into one file.

Step 3: Set advanced settings

Click “Settings” button, then you will be able to adjust audio and video parameters on the popup window to customize the output files, these parameters include codec name, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, and audio channel.

Step 4: Click “Convert” button to start conversion.

Once finished, you can click “Open” button to get the output files effortlessly, and what you need to do next is just importing them to Windows Movie Maker for editing via its “Import video” option.

More info: http://camcordervideoshare.com/category/how-to/

I. JVC camcorder, Canon camcorder,Sony handycam and other similar cameras record their movies as .MOD/.TOD/.MTS files. A question thus arises,  how to play .MOD/.TOD/.MTS  files on Computer?

For playback, I liked the VLC player the best. An alternative player is MPlayer (but it played my movies rather slow).

Since MOD/TOD/MTS Video files are not supported by windows media player, windows movie maker and iPod, iPhone, PSP, Zune, Creative Zen, Blackberry, etc portable MP3 MP4 Players, Cell Phone, if you want to import these  files from your camcorders to edit on windows movie maker, or play on iPod, even burn to DVD Disc? You may need to convert MOD to WMV Video files first, here is a tutorial that will outline one method of convert the Canon, Panasonic, JVC, Everio camcorder supported video files, such as convert  MOD to AVI, or  convert MOD to  MPEG , MP4 FLV VOB MOV MKV MP3, etc common video formats which are compatiable with WMP and other portable multimedia players.

II. How to Convert MOD Video files to AVI WMV MPEG MP4 FLV VOB MOV MKV MP3

To begin with, free download Pavtube HD Converter which can convert MOD/TOD/MTS to common video formats compatiable with WMP, install and run with the overall interface like this..

Step 1. Copy the .MOD/.TOD/.MTS  file from your video camera to your hard drive. Click the “Add Files” button to browse your computer hard disc and load the MOD/TOD/MTS video files you want to convert to the HD Converter.

Step 2. Select Output Settings

Click Format bar, select Common Video-> WMV / HD Video -> HD WMV and then type in output path in Output bar or click the small folder icon to specify a destination folder. Check Merge into one box and the selected files in file list will be combined and output as one file. Click Edit menu and enter Trim window to cut off unwanted clips and reduce the output WMV to exactly what you want.

Tips:
In the output settings area you can click “Settings” button to customize the output parameters like video resolution, frame rate, bit rate, encoder, etc, if you want to make things simple, the default setting also works well.

Step 3: The last step will be conversion. Click “Start” button on the HD Video  Converter, and all the tasks will be done. During the whole conversion, you can have a clear idea of the conversion process such as converted length and time in the “Converting” window popped up.

Tips: If you want to customize the video, this HD Video Converter offers a powerful video editing function, including cropping video, setting the video effects, clipping to choose the length of the movie, even customizing personal watermark to meet your personalized needs.
After you convert MOD/TOD/MTS Video files with Pavtube HD Video  Converter, you can import MOD/TOD/MTS  Movie from your camcorders to Windows Movie Maker, iPod, Zune, etc without problem

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