Image to MTS Converter

Convert Image to MTS Online

This tool wraps a still picture inside an .MTS file — the camcorder spelling of the BDAV MPEG-2 transport stream that AVCHD camcorders record. The output is one motionless frame held on screen for a duration you choose: it is silent, and it does not animate your image. The honest reason to make one is to slot a still — a title card, a slate, a logo, a photograph — into an AVCHD-era editing or disc-authoring workflow that only ingests transport-stream clips. It accepts roughly three dozen image formats, from everyday JPG and PNG to camera RAW. For a modern, smaller, more widely playable still-as-video, use Image to MP4; if you only want to change image formats, Image to JPG keeps it a picture.

Input: What "Image" Accepts

Output: MTS Format at a Glance

How to Convert Image to MTS

1. Upload Your Image File: Drag and drop your pictures onto the page or click "+ Add Files". You can queue many at once — JPG, PNG, WebP, TIFF, GIF, AVIF, HEIC, and camera RAW (CR2, NEF, ARW, DNG, and more) are all accepted.
2. Set Image Duration: Open the Image Duration control and pick how long the frame is held — from 1/60 of a second up to 10 seconds per frame; the default is 5 seconds. Use Merge strategy to choose "Merge images" (one combined clip) or "Video per image" (a separate clip each).
3. Set Quality Preset, Resolution, and Background Color: Leave Quality Preset on "Very High (Recommended)", set Video Resolution ("Keep original" or a fixed preset), and pick a Background Color (default White) to pad any letterboxed area. MTS defaults the video codec to H.264; H.265 and MPEG-2 are under Advanced Options.
4. Convert and Download: Click "Convert" and save your silent .MTS file. No sign-up, no watermark.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does this animate my image or make a slideshow from several photos?

No. Each picture becomes one still frame held for the duration you set, so a single image plays as a frozen clip rather than moving. If you upload several photos and choose "Merge images" under Merge strategy, they are joined back to back — each shown in turn for its set duration — which is a sequence of stills, not a cross-faded slideshow with transitions. For animation you need a moving source such as a GIF or an existing video, not a still.

Is MTS the same as M2TS, and should I use it instead of MP4?

They carry the same encoded video, but they are not the same file. AVCHD camcorders use the .MTS spelling and computers and Blu-ray discs use .m2ts, and the extension decides the framing: .MTS here is a plain transport stream of 188-byte packets starting with the 0x47 sync byte, while Image to M2TS writes BDAV 192-byte packets that each add a 4-byte timestamp header, making the file slightly larger. Convert to the spelling your AVCHD-era editor or authoring tool expects instead of renaming the download, and pick MTS only when one of them specifically asks for it. For phones, browsers, TVs, and ordinary editors, Image to MP4 carries the same H.264 video in a smaller, far more widely supported file.

Will this .MTS file work like a real AVCHD camcorder clip or play off an SD card?

Not as a card structure. What you download is the bare transport stream — the part that lives inside an AVCHD card's BDMV/STREAM/ folder — without the playlist and clip-information files a camcorder writes alongside it. So copying it onto an SD card will not reproduce a browsable AVCHD volume that a camera or set-top player navigates. It does play in software players like VLC and imports into AVCHD-aware editors and authoring tools (such as tsMuxeR or multiAVCHD) that build the surrounding structure for you.

Which video codec should I leave it on for an AVCHD workflow?

Leave it on the H.264 (MPEG-4 AVC) default. H.264 is the codec the AVCHD specification is built around, so it imports most cleanly into AVCHD editors and authoring templates and plays on the widest range of older hardware. H.265 makes a smaller file but is not part of the AVCHD spec and is commonly rejected by AVCHD-era tools; MPEG-2 exists mainly for legacy standard-definition transport-stream pipelines. In our testing, a single still encoded to H.264 imported into an AVCHD authoring template without a re-transcode, whereas the H.265 version was refused.

Can I convert a camera RAW file straight to MTS here?

Yes. RAW files — Canon CR2/CR3, Nikon NEF, Sony ARW, Adobe DNG, Fujifilm RAF, and others — are first rendered to a standard viewable frame on our servers, applying white balance and exposure the way a RAW developer would, and that rendered frame is what gets held in the .MTS clip. The result is a normal 8-bit video frame, not a raw sensor readout, because transport-stream video has no concept of undeveloped RAW data.

What happens to my image after I convert it?

Your image is uploaded over an encrypted connection, processed on our servers, and deleted automatically a few hours after the conversion. There is no sign-up, no watermark, and your files are never shared or made public.

Which image formats can I turn into an MTS?

About three dozen still formats. That covers the everyday ones — JPG, PNG, WebP, GIF, BMP, TIFF, AVIF, and HEIC/HEIF — editor and vector exports like PSD and EPS, and a wide range of camera RAW files such as Canon CR2/CR3, Nikon NEF, Sony ARW, Adobe DNG, Fujifilm RAF, and Olympus ORF.

Each file you upload becomes its own silent clip holding that single frame, so you can queue a whole folder of mixed formats in one batch.

Should I upload an MTS made here to YouTube or social media?

No. YouTube and social platforms expect MP4 or MOV, and while some accept .mts they will re-transcode it anyway. MTS is meant for AVCHD-era editors and disc-authoring tools that specifically ingest transport streams. For anything web-bound, Image to MP4 carries the same H.264 video in a smaller, far more widely accepted file.