[MENTION=10624]ssj[/MENTION]ssj said:thanks, theslime. even if makemkv does rip a blu-ray without much ado, the available mac programs that convert m2ts to prores are from. . . pavtube. so i might as well skip the makemkv step.
at least that's what i can gather, as pavtube has done such a good job of carpetbombing the google search engine so that pavtube and "blogs" about pavtube are the top results.
I am not a Mac user, but from the limited information available, FCP has native support for H264 and .mts
For future reference I have a couple of questions:
1-Does FCP accept elementary streams .mts or does it have to be muxed into a .mov container
2- If it accepts .mts as input, in theory, you can change the .m2ts extension to .mts (They are largely interchangeable) and try that as input (if you have the time, and the resources) can you test the hypothesis. If it works, then you would not have to convert to prores, since eventually you will be exporting to h264 or AVC.
3- If FCP needs a .mov container, can you mux the .mts into .mov without encoding (on Mac you can use AviDemux and on Widows you can use XmediaRecode with the setting video copy for either) and test the results.
Any info will be apreciated
Thanks