Hi all,

Well - we took the young ones to Rotorua with our new Sony XR-100E 80gig HD Video Camera; took some great footage.

Now we are back home, we are thrilled to be able to plug the camera straight into the HD Panasonic TV and enjoy the finer details of HD Footage. However; in order to share the memories with loved ones we are trying to import and edit our footage on our PC.

We can copy the *.mts files easily enough onto our PC's harddrive however playing them is strain enough on the puter without thinking about editing them. I am looking for help or advice as to how to convert mts files taken from my sony hd cam into avi files of smaller size; does anyone know of a program (pref a free program) that will do this for me?

Thanks in advance!