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How do you convert an .MTS file? Camcorder help needed!?

I have a Sony Digital Camcorder, with a high-definition hard drive. I took a few video clips on it. On the camcorder itself, the clips show up in its "gallery" thing as seperate video clips. I have to take these clips, put them on the computer, and make a movie by stringing them all together in the proper order, and I thought I'd use Windows Movie Maker for that. But when I conncted the camcorder thing to the computer, the screen on the camcorder just says "connecting" but it doesn't ever say "connected" I waited a long time..but still! On the computer, I went to "My Computer" and opened up the icon that says "removable disk." All these weird files and things came up, but I couldn't open any of them! don't remenber exactly what was in there, but some names I remember that were on the folders were "STREAM" and a name with a bunch of letters. The main thing is, Windows couldn't open any of them. It ddn't recognize the program it was coming from. I went to the Sony site, other software sites to do this, I downloaded softwares and programs, and whatnot...but it's still not working! I was told that I need to open the MTS files. How do I do this? I have a Windows XP by the way. Thanks in advance! Please help, this is a school project that's due this week, monday! Plzzzzz...

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1. Your Sony hard drive camcorder is recording AVCHD-compressed high definition video. You need a video editor that can deal with that format. MovieMaker cannot - you already know this. You can double check that by going to microsoft and getting the list of file types MovieMaker can deal with. .mts will not be on the list. Windows won't open any of the files either - a computer operating system is not a video editor or player. The current version of Sony Vegas or Adobe Premiere always float to the top.