C100 Mark II AVCHD MTS to DaVinci Resolve Workflow

Encoding C100 Mark II AVCHD .mts to DaVinci Resolve for editing

Summary: If you want to work with Canon C100 Mark II AVCHD standalone .MTS files on DaVinci Resolve 11/10/9, then these helpful tips should assist with any kinks in your workflow on Mac (El Capitan included) without hassle.

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The Canon C100 Mark II Digital HD Camera offers all of the advantages of its predecessor while adding advanced new imaging and operational features by popular demand. In addition to improved RGB video processing, the camera's dual codec capability supports simultaneous AVCHD and MP4 recording, including 59.94P capture along with slow and fast motion recording.

However, due to different reasons, people sometimes may encounter incompatibility issues one or another while importing and editing Canon C100 Mark II AVCHD footage in DaVinci Resolve 9/10/11: "I have recorded many HD footages from Canon C100 Mark II that in AVCHD video format, now I would like to import these projects to DaVinci Resolve 11 for editing. What I want is to edit AVCHD files natively in DaVinci Resolve 11 on my Mac, but I found the DaVinci Resolve 11 can't handle some AVCHD MTS files smoothly."

The most important thing to remember with any digital card format is to copy the entire card, as this will maintain the folder/AVCHD file structure that a lot of non-linear editing applications need to work with the files. What happens when you don't have the whole card structure to work with? Well these apps will convert standalone .MTS files for you for free.

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Apparently you can simply use Free MTS Converter for Mac to re-wrap your AVCHD media out of its .MTS wrapper and into a friendly .mov wrapper (keeping the internal H.264 codec that was inside the .MTS file all along).
If you want more options and power for converting your .MTS files for editing in DaVinci Resolve 11, then you can't do much better than Pavtube Pavtube MTS Converter for Mac (Only $29) which will batch convert or re-wrap your AVCHD and HDV files to DNxHD mov and ProRes mov for DaVinci Resolve at great speed. I've used it for a long time and I've never had a problem with it.

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How to Encode C100 Mark II AVCHD .MTS to DaVinci Resolve 9/10/11 on Mac?

Step 1: Install and run MTS Converter on Mac. Drag and drop MTS videos to this software. Or you can click "Add" button to import your MTS videos to the program.

Step 2: Click "Format" column to Choose Avid Media Composer->Avid DNxHD(*.mov) as output format for DaVinci Resolve 11.

Tips: For 3D movie conversion? Why not go to the "3D Video" to choose one as your favorite? For example, 3D MP4/MKV/MOV/AVI.

Step 3: Click "Settings" button to customize the output video and audio settings by yourself. But if you are not good at it, you'd better use the default parameters, they will ensure you a good balance between file size and image quality basically. You can change the resolution, bit rate, frame rate 30fps as you need.

Step 4: When everything is ready, click "Convert" to start converting C100 Mark II AVCHD MTS to DNxHD MOV. This Mac MTS/M2TS Converter supports batch mts conversion so you may load multiple files and convert them at one time.

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After conversion, import the converted AVCHD MTS videos to DaVinci Resolve 9/10/11 for real time editing and mastering. Fortunately, here is a MTS Topic Page you can get more knowledge of MTS files on Wndows and Mac.

Plus, the Mac MTS conversion tool can also create files compatible with various non-linear editing systems including Avid Media Composer, FCP, iMovie/FCE, Premiere Pro CC, After Effects and more.

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Thanks for reading!
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