If you ever need to supply a video file in a .ts/.mts/.m2t wrapper, commonly used on Blu-ray and AVCHD but can’t find out how to using any of the Adobe Creative Suite, please read on and find out how….I recently was asked to create a few animations with Jim for Jersey Telecom‘s christmas window display; the animations were going to be shown on a 60″ TV with the source being a BrightSign HD110 Looping Sign Controller via a SD card. I’ve dealt with dedicated video source controllers before but my experience is that they usually only support old and outdated formats and codecs, and for the most part don’t allow a massive amount of control, which is why so many people end up feeding a laptop into a screen for a digital signage solution. The BrightSign unit was sourced by Delta AV and stated that it supported H.264 files. So far so good.
The problem occurred when we looked into what wrappers we can use for the files. Supported wrappers were .VOB, .TS & .MPG. So the usual workflow of using .MOV was straight out the window, and to add to the confusion, .VOB and .TS formats cannot be exported from Adobe Media Encoder……. or can they?
Here’s the workaround we eventually found.
Export your video out of whatever program you’re using (in our case, it was After Effects CS4).
Open Adobe Media Encoder and drag and drop your video into the window.
Choose the Format as MPEG2 and the click on the ‘preset’ setting (by default it’s ’1440 x1080i 25 High Quality’).
In the Preset window, choose your basic video settings as necessary (width, height, audio, etc).
Click on the Multiplexer and choose ‘TS’ for the Multiplexing option and OK (you may want to save this preset if you’ve got to convert a lot of footage).
Render – this should produce a video file with the file format of .m2t – if you need a .ts/.mts file just rename the suffix.
In the case of using the BrightSign unit, we had to download their software BrightAuthor which of course only works on a PC….. Using this we could create the playlist once we’d renamed the files to .ts wrappers and then published it to the SD card. After about 1 minute of waiting after turning the unit on with the SD card in (the screen is blank which is useful…. but give it time…) the video appeared and has played perfectly since.
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Hey, I was wondering if I could add your directions to our faq. I’m occasionally asked by Adobe users about directions for creating transport streams for the Brightsign.
By the way, if you just placed the video on the flash card, with the appropriate extension, the brightsign would play the video, no playlist from BrightAuthor required.
Thanks.
Hi Lyndon,
Of course you can add my directions to your FAQ, as long as i’m credited (or you just link back to my site).
Cheers for checking out the article and for the heads up about just dropping the files on the card instead of the using BrightAuthor, although I ended up needing to run a playlist in the end.
Hola, que tal? queria saber si el Adobe Media Encoder acepta archivos TS para convertirlos en otros formatos (.mov etc) ya que no me los acepta.
Un saludo y gracias
Hi Pablo,
Adobe Media Encoder (CS3, 4 or 5) all accept most video formats (.mov, .avi, .mp4, .mpeg, etc) and so you should be able to convert them into .ts by using the method above.
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(perdón por la traducción)
bien, gracias, ¿y tú?
Adobe Media Encoder (CS3, 4 o 5) todos aceptan la mayoría de formatos de vídeo (. Mov,. Avi,. Mp4,. Mpeg, etc) y lo que debería ser capaz de convertir. TS utilizando el método anterior.
disculpa… cual es el metodo anterior?
graciasss
El método de la entrada en el blog anterior, prueba este enlace de traducción en su lugar.
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