Converting a .mts HD video file to more useable/flexible format?

Converting a .mts HD video file to more useable/flexible format? I had a friend ask me this and I was not sure what to recommend. A large 19 min. HD video was shot with a Panasonic HDC-SD9P in 1920x1080. They want to send this video to friends and obviously the file off the camera is way too large. It uses .mts, what seems to be a proprietary format.
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"On my machine VLC media player has no problem reading MTS files, and you can use it to transcode the file.

Also see this interesting article : Best way to Convert AVCHD (.MTS) >> H.264 SD (MP4)."

Guest [Entry]

"You will find a lot of proposals for reading and converting AVCHD format files on wikipedia.
I read those coming from my Panasonic DMC-TZ7 with mpc hc, and I combine them with tsMuxeR (just combine, no fancy effects, but it is lightning fast)."