Players Summit videos

I've been having a really difficult time with the videos I took at the Summit. I don't know if it's because I set it for the AVCHD format or what. When I copy the files off the memory card to my hard drive, playing the .mts files, the videos are so extremely pixelated, they're not viewable. However, screening the videos directly off the memory cards with the camcorder, they look perfect.

And to make matters worse, MS Movie Maker takes 3-4 hours to prep the video files so they're viewable to be edited. Maybe it's because I'm working with the files directly on the memory card, but they're the only ones I can trust to be good. Then another 3-4 hours to save the file to .wmv. So each video takes half a day just to find out if it is crap or not! After adjusting some settings, I've finally managed to reduced the occurence of the pixelation significantly. I really don't know why, though.

Anyway, I've uploaded 2 so far:

Design a Power Set Workshop
Design a Costume Set Workshop

I have to re-do the others with this new setting. I'll post them when I can.

Of course, the reason to watch my videos even if you've already watched the UStream videos is that I swung my camcorder back and forth so you can actually see your fellow players speaking along with the Devs and audience reactions. Hopefully, you'll get a better feel of being there with us.

Edit:
Some more videos uploaded:
Welcome & Keynote Address
Flik Song & Paragon Market Panel

I haven't had time to play around with the VLC yet, so these are just with my current methods, so you'll see some pixelation.

Edit:
The final 2 videos are now uploaded:
Make Your Case: Zone Revamp Panel
Story Lore & Endgame Panel

Are you using Windows Media Player to play the .mts files? I'd using something like VLC instead, it pretty much always has far better compatibility with everything.

Are you doing editing with Windows Movie Maker, or just reencoding? If just the latter, I'd suggest using VLC for that instead (selecting "Video - H.264 + AAC (MP4)" as the Profile... you can tweak it if desired) or HandBreak. Sadly, video conversion is pretty much always a slow process (unless you have the right hardware), although HandBreak & VLC's converter let you queue up several items to transcode... so you could just start it, then let it run over night.

We've been saving Paragon City for eight and a half years. It's time to do it one more time.

Yeah, I was using Windows Media Player. It seemed fine in the past, but I'll check out the other apps you recommended. I haven't played with camcorder much, so I haven't kept up with the tools.

See the OP for additional videos.

OK. The last 2 videos are up.