M2T Files in FCP

I'm currently editing on FCP 7. I just downloaded a plugin from Sony that should allow me to use M2T files. I have a friend who has downloaded all of the files onto an external drive using his PC. Will I be able to copy the M2T files over onto my computer and begin editing them?
Thanks.

Ideally, you should capture the footage using the system that you will be editing on.
Final Cut Pro works with QuickTime .mov files. Your friends PC probably converts the camera's footage to .avi files.
The external drive is probably USB based. USB transfers data in packets, not a constant stream. That won't cut it for video editing, you need at least a FireWire connected drive.
The drive is also most likely formatted in Windows FAT 16 or FAT 32. Both of those have file size limits of 2 and 4 GB respectively. Anything larger is broken into segments. This can be very unreliable and cause problems with FCP. Also, losing one file segment makes the others unusable.
Then again and given a miracle, it might all work wonderfully.

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Use MPEG Streamclip to demux/convert the m2t file(s) into whatever format matches your FCP Sequence settings.
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I am doing a project for a friend and picked up all the video files the other day. It was a 6 hour drive to get them. Now I am home and ready to start and I notice they are M2T files... How the heck do I get these in FCP??
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Ahhh....
Type "M2T" in the search window of this forum and read all the goodness about this format. Bottom line is that you will need software to convert this to an editable format. Toast 10, Voltaic, Clipwrap.
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I use a Sony HVR V1 and FCP 6 to edit HDV footage.
My Sony PlayStation 3 handles mpeg 2 files very well.
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your workflow is little confusing...
m2t is a transport stream, which contains both video and audio multiplexed into one file. m2v is an elementary stream, containing video only. You are not accomplishing anything by changing the extension to m2v.
The quality of the video is not in the extension, it is in the encoding. When you export to the camera in HDV mode, you are letting the camera encode back to mpeg2. Don't know how much control you have over the encoding process there. YOu are most likely bound by the presets the camera has. If you use Compressor you can encode to mpeg2 m2v, mpeg2 m2t, mpeg2 with layer1 audio program stream, and many others.
I would read up on video compression both in your manuals and on the web. There is a lot to know about it to get good results.
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