Does everything I wanted it to

Happy with this program… I would certainly pay a few $ to have now that I’ve used it.

Comes with many conversion and rewrap options. Have to fiddle for a bit to determine best settings per application.

Wisdom for all conversion programs… when you reencode it takes a long time and typically baloons the file size and often degrades the quality.

AVCHD Wisdom... AVCHD which is the recording and file protocol for most modern HD camcorders is a pain to work with or watch natively using anything but the camera you recorded it on. If you instead “Rewrap” the AVCHD (.MTS file) as a .mov file, it is playable in many places (like Xbox) and takes only a minute or so per hour of video using this great program. Rewraping won’t get it to your iPad tho if that’s your goal… only a reencoding will do that from what I’ve experienced (for Mac users - reencoding/rewraping can be done right in iPhoto (just "Import" it) from the memory card as long as you import the whole card and don’t drill down to the actual mts files… you can drag mts files to iMovie if you like tho).

A Tech Life 4me about AVCHD to Mov Lite