ORF to MTS Converter

Convert ORF to MTS Online

Wrap an Olympus .orf RAW photo into an .MTS clip — the camcorder spelling of an AVCHD transport stream, the container Sony and Panasonic introduced in 2006 for HD camcorders. This is a deliberately narrow tool: it renders your ORF to one still frame and holds that motionless frame on screen for a duration you set, producing a silent, static clip — not a way to "edit a raw in a video app." The one real reason to do it is to drop an OM-D or PEN still into an older AVCHD editing or disc-authoring timeline that only ingests .mts. If you just want a viewable photo or a normal video, ORF to JPG and ORF to MP4 are almost certainly what you actually want.

How to Convert ORF to MTS

1. Upload Your ORF File: Drag and drop your Olympus .orf onto the page or click "+ Add Files" to browse — straight off an OM-D, PEN, Tough, or newer OM SYSTEM body, and you can queue several frames at once.
2. Set Image Duration: Open the Image Duration control and set Duration — how long the rendered frame is held, from a fraction of a second up to several seconds per frame, with 5 seconds the default. Use Merge strategy to pick "Merge images" (one combined clip) or "Video per image" (a separate .mts per photo).
3. Set Quality Preset, Video resolution, and Background Color: Leave Quality Preset on its recommended setting, set Video resolution to "Keep original" or a fixed 1080p preset, and pick a Background Color (default black) to pad any letterboxed area. Under "Show All Options" the Video Codec defaults to H.264, which is what AVCHD-era tools expect.
4. Convert and Download: Click "Convert" and save your silent .MTS clip. No sign-up, no watermark.

ORF vs MTS: What Goes In and What Comes Out

Frequently Asked Questions

Why would I convert an ORF photo to MTS instead of JPG or MP4?

For almost everyone, you wouldn't. MTS makes sense only for an AVCHD-era pipeline — an older editor or disc-authoring tool that ingests .mts transport-stream footage and into which you need to slot a still, such as a title slate or a single Olympus photograph. For a viewable, shareable picture, ORF to JPG is the right tool: far smaller, supported everywhere, and it keeps your raw as the master. For a video clip that plays natively on phones, browsers, and modern editors, ORF to MP4 carries the same H.264 video in a container with far broader support than MTS.

What happens to all the raw latitude in my ORF?

It is spent at the render step. To place an ORF into any video frame, the converter must demosaic the Olympus sensor data and bake in a white balance, exposure, and any Art Filter look — the way a raw developer applies them — because transport-stream video has no concept of undeveloped raw data. ORF is built on the TIFF/EP specification and holds 12-bit (most bodies) or 14-bit of unprocessed sensor data; the frame inside the .MTS is a finished 8-bit video frame, so the recoverable highlights, shadows, and adjustable white balance of the raw are no longer freely editable in the clip. Develop the raw in a dedicated editor first if you want that control, and keep the original .orf as your master. (If your camera also wrote a companion .ori file from a high-res mode, convert from the original .orf for the full raw data.)

Will the MTS clip have any motion or sound?

No on both counts. The ORF is rendered to one still frame, and that single frame is held on screen for the duration you set — so it plays as a frozen image with no pans, zooms, or transitions. It is also silent: a still image carries no audio track, so there is nothing to encode into the AVCHD stream, even though AVCHD itself supports Dolby AC-3 and linear PCM audio. If you upload several ORFs and choose "Merge images" under Merge strategy, they join back to back — each shown in turn for its set duration — which is a sequence of stills, not a cross-faded slideshow. Add narration or music on the editing timeline after you import the clip.

My OM-D is 20 megapixels — what resolution does the MTS clip end up?

Lower than the raw, in practice. Olympus and OM SYSTEM bodies in the roughly 12-to-20-megapixel class capture far more pixels than a video frame holds, so leaving Video resolution on "Keep original" still produces a video-sized frame rather than a poster-sized one, and choosing a 1080p preset downscales the rendered image to fit 1920x1080. The detail that does not fit the chosen frame is discarded — that is normal for putting a high-resolution photo into video. If preserving every pixel matters, keep the still as an image with ORF to JPG or a lossless ORF to TIFF rather than wrapping it in video.

How are my files handled, and how long are they kept?

In our testing, a 20-megapixel ORF rendered into a 1080p .MTS held for five seconds produced a small clip, since one static frame compresses efficiently in H.264. Your ORF is uploaded over an encrypted connection, rendered and wrapped into an .MTS clip on our servers, and deleted automatically a few hours after conversion — no sign-up, no watermark, and your photos are never shared or made public. The main practical limit on a big job is upload size and time, since Olympus raws often run tens of megabytes each. For an .mts from any image format, not just Olympus raw, see Image to MTS.