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RATPosted at 2016-01-29 19:49:17(506 wks ago) (Technical Help / Edit .TS files on MAC)
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Does anybody know a free program to edit .TS files on a MAC.

Thanx in advance...

Cheers'
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ruudPosted at 2016-01-29 22:13:50(506 wks ago) (Technical Help / Edit .TS files on MAC)


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There's a butt-ugly but free program called "Free MTS M2TS Converter" you can use to edit .ts files. Problem with that program is that I couldn't place the cut points as exactly as I wanted to. Also, the resulting files didn't play properly in QuickTime (= Apple TV). Ultimately I settled for iffmeg, which is a shareware program that works pretty well.

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RATPosted at 2016-01-29 23:30:27(506 wks ago) (Technical Help / Edit .TS files on MAC)
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Thanx Ruud, do they also edit 720p and 1080p .TS files ?

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ruudPosted at 2016-02-03 22:54:37(505 wks ago) (Technical Help / Edit .TS files on MAC)


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Yes. You can download it from the App Store, it's free.

BTW, my previous post was a little too short. You can edit the .ts files but you need to convert M2TS stream, otherwise QuickTime doesn't play it. VLC does, but I need QuickTime compatibility for my Apple TV.

With iFfmeg you can very precisely set the start and end cuts and have a million of options to tweak the output, so I settled for that.

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RATPosted at 2016-02-04 12:22:47(505 wks ago) (Technical Help / Edit .TS files on MAC)
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Thanx, I want to edit...but don't want to convert :-)
Is that possible ?

iFFmpeg isn't free software :-)

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willb3dPosted at 2016-02-04 20:58:53(505 wks ago) (Technical Help / Edit .TS files on MAC)


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^^ Like ruud says, you can trim with demux/remux programs like "Free MTS M2TS Converter" or "Avisynth" (I use Avisynth, myself), but you cannot always get precise edit points. Sometimes you get the edit point exactly where you want, and sometimes you don't - and when you don't, you truly can't - there's something about the nature of the files that they can only be broken losslessly in certain points, sometimes as much as 2 seconds off from where you'd prefer. When that happens, I just set my iTunes to start playback 1 second in, or whatever corrects it to my liking.

That said, it is so rare to have a perfect .ts file that I usually end up re-encoding with Handbrake. Sometimes I just need to decomb an interlaced file, sometimes I want to add visual noise reduction. I've looked at iFFmpeg, and it is way too complex for anyone but the most devoted (and possibly unemployed) to use. Plus Handbrake is free.

If the video is fine but I need to change the audio from AC3 to AAC to play nice with my Mac's iTunes, I use MP4TOOLS, letting the video pass through untouched but reprocessing the audio. MP4TOOLS only works with m4v files though, not TS, so you have to demux/remux ts files into m4Vs first… So many steps.

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ruudPosted at 2016-02-06 22:01:31(505 wks ago) (Technical Help / Edit .TS files on MAC)


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Handbrake too is my one stop program for converting DVDs into mp4 files, but it doesn't provide an option to edit .ts files, just to convert them. iFfmeg is the only program I found that allows you to set the cut points precisely.

In many cases (but not for HD .ts files), it enough to change the container. So if you want to convert .mkv files to .mp4 files (iTunes doesn't do .mkv), I normally use Subler.

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willb3dPosted at 2016-02-06 22:21:07(505 wks ago) (Technical Help / Edit .TS files on MAC)


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Actually, you can use Handbrake to trim, but you won't believe how much math you have to do:

You change the part that says "Chapters" x through y (for example) to "Seconds" x through y.

Break out your calculator. Painstakingly figure out what second you want the encoding to start at and what second you want the encoding to stop at. (If you want it to start at 1 hour 31minutes in, and end at 1 hour 36 minutes in, that's, um… 5460 to 5760.

That's way too much math. And besides, sometimes you want a cut to be much more precise than one second.

So, what I usually do is, I'd convert (reencode) with Handbrake, and then trim (without reencoding) with Avisynth.

Maybe iFfmeg isn't too complicated, all things considered!!! :)

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