TIFF to MTS Converter

How to Convert TIFF to MTS Online

1. Upload Your TIFF Files: Drag and drop or click "Add Files" to add .tiff / .tif images. Multi-page TIFFs and batches are supported — upload them in the order you want them to appear in the timeline.
2. Pick Image Duration and Merge Strategy: Set how long each frame holds — choose from 1/60 second (true 60 fps timelapse) through 10 seconds per image. Then choose Merge images to stitch every TIFF into one continuous MTS, or Video per image to output one short clip per file.
3. Set Quality Preset, Resolution, and Background Color (Optional): Pick a Quality Preset (Lowest → Highest, default Very High), a fixed resolution preset (720P, 1080P, 1440P, 2160P) or custom Width × Height with aspect ratio locked. Set a Background Color (default Black) so portrait or odd-aspect TIFFs get letterboxed cleanly instead of stretched.
4. Convert and Download: Click "Convert". Files are uploaded over an encrypted connection, processed on our servers, and deleted automatically after a few hours — no sign-up, no watermark, never shared.mts` is a real H.264 / AC-3 stream that loads on AVCHD-aware camcorders and editors.

Why Convert TIFF to MTS?

TIFF (Tagged Image File Format, Adobe Revision 6.0, 1992) is the archival workhorse for scanners, DSLRs, microscopy, and print — lossless, multi-page, up to 32 bits per channel, capped at 4 GB per file. MTS, by contrast, is the on-card filename extension produced by AVCHD camcorders: an MPEG-2 transport stream wrapping H.264/AVC video plus AC-3 (Dolby Digital) or LPCM audio, jointly specified by Sony and Panasonic in 2006. Converting a TIFF sequence to MTS turns still frames into a Blu-ray-spec timeline that drops straight into AVCHD edit bays and consumer disc authoring tools.

• Build a slideshow your camcorder editor accepts — Sony PlayMemories Home, Panasonic HD Writer, and older Pinnacle/Cyberlink AVCHD projects expect .mts on the timeline. A TIFF burst from a scanner or DSLR becomes a drop-in clip.
• Stitch a timelapse from a TIFF burst — astrophotography, macro, or product-rotation rigs often save losslessly as TIFF. Picking 1/24 second or 1/30 second per frame gives true cinema or NTSC playback speed in a single MTS file.
• Pre-render archive footage for AVCHD Blu-ray authoring — AVCHD 2.0 caps at 28 Mbps at 1080p50/60 and 24 Mbps at 1080p30/25, the exact ceiling consumer Blu-ray authoring tools expect.
• Feed a Panasonic / Sony Handycam workflow — Panasonic's HDC-TM700 (Feb 2010) and Sony's NEX-VG20 (Aug 2011) added 1080p50/60 AVCHD, and their bundled editors still prefer native MTS over re-wrapped MP4.
• Long, single-file timelines without FAT32 splits — MTS transport streams chunk cleanly at 4 GB on SDHC cards, mirroring how camcorders themselves spool long takes, so the output drops onto SD media without re-segmenting.
• Letterbox vertical or square TIFFs cleanly — set a Background Color (black for cinema, white for product) and the converter pads to 16:9 instead of stretching the original — keeps scanned documents and portrait DSLR frames readable.

TIFF vs MTS — Format Comparison

Quality Preset Quick Guide

Frequently Asked Questions

Will my AVCHD camcorder play this MTS file back from the SD card?

Not reliably. Camcorder firmware expects a strict AVCHD folder layout (PRIVATE/AVCHD/BDMV/STREAM/*.MTS) plus matching .CPI clip-info and .MPL playlist files. The converted .mts will open in software that decodes AVCHD streams — VLC, MPC-HC, PowerDVD, Sony PlayMemories Home, Panasonic HD Writer, DaVinci Resolve, Premiere Pro — but won't necessarily appear in the camcorder's own thumbnail browser without the surrounding folder structure.

What frame rate do I get if I set Image Duration to 1/30 second?

Effectively 30 fps — each TIFF holds for one frame at 30 fps. Pick 1/24 second for cinema-rate (23.976/24 fps), 1/30 second for NTSC SD/HD, 1/60 second for AVCHD 2.0 high-frame-rate (1080p60), or longer durations like 2 seconds or 5 seconds for a slideshow. Custom dropdowns from 1/60 through 10 seconds are exposed in Advanced Options.

Why isn't a 4K (3840×2160) preset available for MTS output?

Because the AVCHD spec doesn't define one. AVCHD 2.0 (the 2011 revision that added Progressive HD) tops out at 1920 × 1080 — 4K recording moved to the newer XAVC / XAVC S container, which uses .mp4. If you select 4K here, the encoder will write a non-spec stream that some players accept but most camcorder software will reject. Stay at 1080p, or convert to MP4 instead.

How do I make a timelapse instead of a slideshow?

Upload your TIFF burst in capture order, set Image Duration to 1/24 second (cinema), 1/30 second (smooth NTSC), or 1/60 second (slow-motion at 60 fps playback), and keep Merge images selected. The output is one continuous .mts. For a 1-second-per-frame archival slideshow, just switch the dropdown to 1 second.

My TIFFs are portrait (vertical). Will the MTS be stretched?

No — the encoder letterboxes to the chosen 16:9 resolution and fills the side bars with the Background Color you pick (default black). Set a white background for product mockups against bright pages, or another color from the dropdown if you're matching a brand. The TIFF itself isn't squashed or cropped.

Does this preserve the 16-bit color depth of my scanned TIFF?

No, and no AVCHD output can. H.264 Main / High profile inside MTS is 8-bit 4:2:0 — that's the format ceiling, not a converter limitation. If you need to keep 10-bit or 16-bit fidelity for grading, convert to a 10-bit codec inside MP4 or MOV (HEVC Main10, ProRes) instead. For archival masters, keep the TIFFs themselves; MTS is the delivery format, not the archive.

How large will the output file be?

Plan for roughly 3 MB per second at AVCHD 2.0's 24 Mbps 1080p30 ceiling, or about 3.5 MB per second at the 28 Mbps 1080p60 ceiling. A 100-frame TIFF burst played at 1/30 second per frame = ~3.3 seconds of video ≈ 10 MB at Very High. A 5-second-per-frame slideshow of 50 TIFFs runs 250 seconds ≈ 750 MB at the same preset.

Can I add background music or narration?

Not in this converter — TIFF carries no audio so the output MTS gets a silent AC-3 or LPCM track at the AVCHD-spec sample rates. Edit the resulting MTS in Sony PlayMemories Home, Panasonic HD Writer, or any NLE that imports AVCHD, and drop your audio there. If you only need a quick MP4 with audio instead of MTS, try TIFF to MP4.

What's the difference between this and converting JPG or PNG to MTS?

Workflow is identical, but the source format changes what you preserve. TIFF holds higher bit depth and lossless detail than JPG to MTS, so you avoid double-compression when going to H.264. PNG to MTS is similar in fidelity to TIFF but lacks multi-page support, so a single multi-page .tif is more compact for batch slideshows.

I need to go the other way — extract still frames from an MTS clip.

That's the inverse workflow: convert MTS to a still-image format. Use MTS to MP4 first if you need a more portable container, or compress your originals with Compress TIFF before stitching them here to shrink the input batch.