[oldcpu]

Originally Posted by oldcpu

Thanks ! Works like magic !!
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To finish this thread (apologies for not posting the code I eventually ended up using) - for a mass conversion to 1280x720 at a reasonably high bit rate, I use the following:

for i in *.mts; do ffmpeg -y -i "$i" -f avi -vcodec mpeg4 -b 8000000 -acodec ac3 -ab 128000 -s 1280x720 2009_06_21_${i/%mts/avi}; done

Typically I run that from a terminal in the directory where the mts files are kept. I typically store both the output avi and the original mts files. ... where I change the "2009_06_21_" for each directory .... I keep the mts files in directories associated with each day that I take the video.