ODG to MTS Converter

Convert ODG to MTS: What This Tutorial Covers

Most converters won't take an ODG drawing straight to an .MTS video — they stop at ODG-to-PNG or ODG-to-PDF and leave you to build the clip yourself. This page does the whole thing in one pass: it rasterizes your LibreOffice/OpenOffice Draw drawing to pixels and wraps that single frame in an AVCHD transport stream, so a diagram or title card can drop into an AVCHD editing timeline. Before you start, know two things — the conversion is a deliberately niche one, and what you get is one motionless, silent frame held for a duration you choose, not an animation.

How to Convert ODG to MTS

1. Upload Your ODG File: Drag and drop your .odg drawing onto the page, or click "+ Add Files" to browse from your computer. You can queue several Draw files and convert them with one set of settings.
2. Set Image Duration: Open Advanced Options and use Image Duration to pick how long the frame is held — the Duration dropdown runs from 1/60 of a second up to 10 seconds per frame, with 5 seconds the default. Use Merge strategy to choose "Merge images" (one combined clip) or "Video per image" (a separate clip for each file).
3. Set Quality, Resolution, and Background Color (Optional): Leave Quality Preset on "Very High (Recommended)", set Video resolution ("Keep original", a preset, or a fixed size — this is the pixel grid the vector is rasterized onto), and pick a Background Color (default Black) to fill any letterboxed area around the drawing.
4. Convert and Download: Click "Convert" and save your silent .MTS clip. No sign-up, no watermark.

Walk-through: Getting a Clean Frame at the Right Size

The whole quality of an ODG-to-MTS clip is decided by one setting — Video resolution — because the vector drawing is sampled onto that exact pixel grid and never gets sharper afterward. A few patterns worth knowing:

• If your AVCHD timeline is 1080p, set Video resolution to a 1920x1080 fixed/preset size so the frame is native and never upscaled by the editor.
• If the drawing is portrait or an odd aspect ratio, it will be letterboxed to fit a landscape video frame — set Background Color to match the drawing's background (White for a white-page diagram) so the padding isn't a black border.
• If fine lines or small text look soft, that is the rasterize-then-encode step, not a resolution bug — render larger (pick a higher Video resolution) so there are more pixels to carry the detail before the H.264 encoder runs.
• If you only need a quick still and not a held clip, drop Image Duration to a fraction of a second; a longer duration only repeats the same frame and makes the file bigger.

For an AVCHD workflow, leave the video codec on H.264 (MPEG-4 AVC) — it is the codec the AVCHD specification is built around and the one AVCHD editors and authoring tools import most cleanly. H.265 is offered deeper in Advanced Options but is not part of the AVCHD spec, so AVCHD-era tools commonly reject it.

Common Errors and How to Fix Them

• "The diagram looks fuzzy or the lines are soft." The vector was rasterized to a fixed pixel grid, then run through a lossy video codec — detail beyond that grid is gone. Re-render at a higher Video resolution so more pixels carry the line work, or keep the artwork as vectors with ODG to SVG.
• "There's a black border around my drawing." The drawing's aspect ratio doesn't match the video frame, so it's letterboxed. Set Background Color to match the page color of your drawing, or choose a Video resolution closer to the drawing's proportions.
• "The clip is completely silent." That's expected — a still image has no audio to encode (see below). It is not a failed conversion.
• "My multi-page Draw document came out wrong." Each drawing page is treated as its own image. Use Merge strategy — "Merge images" combines the pages into one clip in order, "Video per image" gives you a separate .MTS per page.
• "My AVCHD editor won't import the file." Make sure the video codec is left on H.264; an H.265-encoded .MTS is commonly refused by AVCHD-era tools.

When This Doesn't Work

ODG-to-MTS only makes sense for one situation: feeding a diagram, title card, or slide into an older Sony/Panasonic AVCHD editing or disc-authoring pipeline that ingests transport-stream clips. For almost everything else it is the wrong target. If you want a still that plays on phones, browsers, and modern editors, convert ODG to MP4 — same H.264 video, far smaller and more widely supported. If you only need a picture rather than a clip, convert ODG to PNG for a plain raster, or convert ODG to SVG to keep the drawing infinitely scalable. The conversion also can't add motion or sound that the source ODG never had — a static drawing in always yields a static, silent clip out.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does converting ODG to MTS keep the drawing scalable?

No — and it loses scalability twice over. An ODG stores resolution-independent vector shapes that scale to any size cleanly, but making an MTS first rasterizes that vector onto a fixed pixel grid, then encodes that grid into a video frame with a lossy codec. Diagrams, floor plans, and fine line art can look slightly soft at video resolution because crisp curves have been sampled down to pixels and then compressed. If you need the artwork to stay infinitely scalable, convert ODG to SVG to stay in a vector format; choose MTS only when something specifically needs an AVCHD video clip.

Will the MTS clip have any motion or sound?

No to both. Each ODG becomes a single still frame that is simply held on screen for the duration you set — there is no pan, zoom, or animation, just a frozen image. The clip is also silent: AVCHD normally carries Dolby AC-3 or linear PCM audio, but a static drawing has nothing to encode, so no audio track is written. If you want movement or a soundtrack, you need a moving or audio source to begin with, not a still ODG.

Why convert an ODG to MTS instead of MP4?

Almost the only honest reason is an AVCHD-era workflow. If you are editing or authoring inside an older Sony/Panasonic AVCHD pipeline or a disc-authoring tool that ingests transport-stream clips, an .MTS title card or diagram slide drops in without a transcode, whereas an MP4 might not. For every other use — sharing, phones, browsers, TVs, modern editors — ODG to MP4 carries the same H.264 video in a smaller, far more widely supported file. If you only need a picture, ODG to PNG keeps it a plain raster.

What's the difference between an .MTS and an .m2ts file?

They are the same AVCHD transport stream with two extensions. Camcorders write the clips as .MTS on the recording media, while computers and Blu-ray authoring use the .m2ts spelling after import — the underlying MPEG transport stream is identical either way. This converter produces the camcorder-style .MTS extension, which is what AVCHD editing and authoring tools expect when ingesting source clips.

My ODG has several drawing pages — what happens to them?

Each drawing page is rendered to its own frame, and Merge strategy decides how they're packaged. "Merge images" combines the pages into a single .MTS clip, each held for the Image Duration you set, in document order; "Video per image" produces a separate .MTS file for each page. If you instead want every page kept together as a scalable document rather than a video, convert ODG to PDF preserves the pages and keeps the artwork sharp at any zoom.

How are my uploaded ODG files handled?

In our testing, a single-page A4 ODG diagram rendered to a 1080p frame and held for 5 seconds on H.264 produced a small .MTS clip in the low single-digit megabytes — most of an MTS this short is container overhead, since one repeated still compresses heavily. Your file is uploaded over an encrypted connection, rasterized and encoded into the .MTS clip on our servers, and deleted automatically a few hours after conversion — no sign-up, no watermark, never shared or made public. The main practical limit is upload size and time, not your device.