Convert M2TS to APNG Online

M2TS to APNG Converter

M2TS is the MPEG-2 Transport Stream that AVCHD camcorders and Blu-ray authoring produce — high-bitrate H.264 footage that no browser will play and no chat window will preview. APNG is the animated form of PNG: a looping image, lossless, 24-bit colour, no plugin required. Converting between them turns a span of camcorder video into frames and reassembles those frames as one animated image file. It is the right move for a short loop that has to look exact — a product turntable, a screen capture, a few seconds of demonstration footage — and the wrong move for anything long, because APNG has no motion compression at all.

M2TS Format at a Glance

APNG Format at a Glance

How to Convert M2TS to APNG

1. Upload Your M2TS File: Drag the .m2ts clip onto the page or click "+ Add Files". Camcorder files are large, so the upload is usually the longest part of the job.
2. Set the Framerate: The Framerate list runs from 1 FPS up to 50 FPS, with 10 FPS marked as the recommended default. Frame count — and therefore file size — is framerate multiplied by the clip's length in seconds.
3. Set the Image resolution: "Keep original" hands you full 1080p frames, which is rarely what you want for an APNG. Scale down with Resolution Percentage, a height preset, or an exact Width x Height.
4. Convert and Download: Click Convert and download the finished APNG. No sign-up, no watermark. Files upload over an encrypted connection, are processed on our servers, and are deleted automatically after a few hours.

Keeping the File Size Under Control

This is the part that surprises people. APNG stores each frame with PNG's lossless compression and has no inter-frame motion prediction, so a second of 1080p footage at 10 FPS is ten full-resolution lossless images — the format that makes a logo look perfect makes a landscape shot enormous. Two of the three levers that matter are on this page, and one is not:

• Frame size does the most work. Halving the width and height quarters the pixel count per frame. Dropping 1920 × 1080 to 480 × 270 with Resolution Percentage or Width x Height is usually the difference between an unusable file and a shareable one.
• Framerate is the second lever. 10 FPS reads as smooth for most short loops; 5 FPS halves the frames again and still works for slow movement or screen capture.
• Length is the lever this page does not give you. There is no trim control on this conversion, so the whole clip is converted. Cut the segment you want first with the video cutter, then convert the trimmed clip here.

There is also no colour-reduction or quality control on this pairing — the two you get are framerate and output size. If you need a hard size ceiling, M2TS to GIF gives you a colour palette and an image-quality percentage in exchange for GIF's 256-colour limit.

Frequently Asked Questions

Why is my APNG so much larger than the video it came from?

Because H.264 and APNG compress in completely different ways. H.264 stores mostly the differences between frames using motion prediction; APNG stores each frame as lossless image data with no motion compensation. A 24 Mbps camcorder clip is already a marvel of compression, while the APNG version is effectively a stack of PNGs. Shrink the frame size first, then the framerate, and keep the clip to a few seconds.

Can I convert just one section of the clip?

Not on this page — we checked the controls it actually renders, and Framerate and Image resolution are the only two. There is no start-time or duration field, so the entire file is converted. Trim the source down to the seconds you need with the video cutter first; that also cuts the upload you have to wait through.

Will the APNG animate everywhere?

In about 95.9% of browsers in use, including Chrome 59+, Firefox 3+, Safari 8+ and Edge 79+. The format was designed for graceful failure: a decoder that does not understand the animation chunks simply renders the first frame as an ordinary static PNG, so the image never appears broken. That fallback behaviour is written into the PNG Third Edition specification itself.

Does the audio from my M2TS come across?

No. APNG is an image format with no audio track, so the Dolby Digital or Linear PCM soundtrack in your camcorder file is dropped. If you need the sound as well, keep the footage as video with M2TS to MP4, or lift the audio out separately with M2TS to AAC.

My camcorder footage looks striped or combed in the APNG — why?

Because it was recorded interlaced. Consumer AVCHD camcorders very often shoot 1080i, where each video frame is two fields captured a fraction of a second apart. There is no deinterlacing step in this conversion, so any horizontal combing on moving subjects is baked into the frames that go into the APNG. Deinterlace the clip in a desktop editor before uploading if that matters — footage shot in a progressive mode (1080p or 720p) will not show it.

Does APNG keep transparency from my video?

APNG supports 8-bit alpha, but an M2TS file has none to give — H.264 video in a transport stream stores opaque frames only. So the alpha channel is available in the output format and unused by this particular conversion, unless you composited transparency into the footage in an editor and exported to a format that could carry it, which M2TS cannot.

APNG, GIF or WebP — which should I actually pick?

APNG when exact colour matters: 24-bit truecolour and smooth alpha, at the cost of size. GIF when you need maximum compatibility or a hard size limit, since M2TS to GIF exposes colour-palette and quality controls that trade fidelity for bytes. Note that WebP output from a video source on this site produces still frames rather than an animation, so it is not a substitute for either.

What framerate should I choose?

Start at the 10 FPS default. Frame count is framerate times duration, and every frame is full-size lossless data, so 10 FPS over 4 seconds is 40 frames while 30 FPS over the same 4 seconds is 120. Screen recordings, slow pans and product turntables read fine at 8–10 FPS; only fast motion genuinely needs 25 or 30, and at that point a video format is the better answer.

Are my uploaded files kept?

No. Your M2TS is uploaded over an encrypted connection, processed on our servers, and deleted automatically after a few hours — no sign-up, no watermark, never shared or made public. If the finished animation is still too heavy, run it through the APNG compressor.