This past week I purchased a Sony HD video camera. Its easy to use and I really like it...until I found it uses only .MTS format. Well Sony isn't the only one who uses this so does Cannon. Let me tell you I'm not so thrilled with that. First you can't upload to YouTube and it wont play with VLC Media player (unless you like choppy videos). It does however play with Windows Live Media Player. You can edit it with "Windows Live Movie Maker" but then it saves it as a .wlmp format. So I though OK let me just convert it. That was not so easy to do I found. I have two PAID converter programs and they did not work on it. I googled my heart out and found some other paid ones that worked but who wants to spend $50. and the "trial" only converts 1/2 of the video over (aggravating). Well after dozens of converters I found a great one and its FREE!

Free HD Converter 1.2

Free HD Converter is a freeware designed to convert all your MTS and M2TS files coming from your HD camcorders as Canon or Sony. You will be able to convert to AVI, MPEG2, DVD format, Ipod, Mp4, Wmv. Very fast conversion and completely free to use.

Here is a screen shot:

Yes this program also works in Windows 7

I also found you can convert them in bulk - Why pay when you can get it FREE - I Freeware!