Dealing with M2T (HDV) for Macs

Mac M2T

What is HDV? It is the video format that was developed by Japanese electronics makers such as JVC and Sony. JVC first introduced an HDV camcorder that supported both standard DV (480i) and HDV (720p30). Sony’s camcorder supports HDV 1080 interlaced format. The file extension used for HDV is .m2t. And its video compression is based on MPEG-2. So the average bitrates are about 25 Mbit/s for 1080i and 19.7 Mbit/s for 720p, respectively. Furthermore, the audio compression is MPEG-1 Layer II (MP2) with a bitrate of 192 kbit/s per channel. Continue reading →