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Monday, June 24, 2013

Make Sony A58 AVCHD footages working with iMovie/FCE on Mac

"Hi, I'm using a Sony SLT-A58 on a MacBook Pro. I need to upload these videos to iMovie so that I can edit them later. But it seems iMovie does not like to work with my videos, I think I'm just missing something that is pretty simple. Can anyone help?

The Alpha SLT-A58 is one of the SLRs camera from Sony which apparently want to enter the SLRs market with such a worthy entry level product. The Alpha A58 replaces Sony SLT A57, and become a competitive camera in this price class with incredible video quality. Sony A58 record full hd videos at 1080p resolution and in 60i or 24p for your choice. What's more, the videos it outputs is wrapped in AVCHD codec for blu-ray-like picture quality.

However, here comes the problem. The AVCHD codec allows people save large extraordinary videos without quality loss, but the output video size is pretty large correspondingly. It's not easy for permanent preservation. Also, AVCHD is not a Mac friendly video codec, and the mts format is not support by many nonlinear editing programs on Mac, such as Final Cut Pro, iMovie/Final Cut Express, Avid Media Composer, etc. What should we do to make Sony A58 AVCHD footages working with iMovie/FCE on Mac?

Since Mac and NLE do not work with AVCHD or MTS format natively, you need to convert Sony SLT-A58 AVCHD files to iMovie/FCE compatible codec for editing, which can be as simple as a few clicks with this Pavtube AVCHD MTS/M2TS Converter for Mac.

How to convert Sony SLT-A58 AVCHD MTS for editing in FCE/iMovie?

Step 1. Connect your Sony SLT-A58 to Mac and turn it on; launch Mac Sony MTS/M2TS Converter, click top left two icons to load your footage.

Step 2. Choose iMovie/FCE compatible video format.

Click "Format", you will many profiles for different programs and usage.

For Mac iMovie or FCE users, click "iMovie and Final Cut Express > Apple InterMediate Codec(AIC)(*.mov)" as the best codec for editing.

You can also click "Settings" which is marked as 3 above, to set the output video specs manually.

Step 3. Click the big red circle to start converting Sony SLT A58 AVCHD MTS to AIC MOV for using in FCE/iMovie. Check "start streaming server after conversion", you can share/edit the converted video directly on anther Mac.

Monday, June 3, 2013

Import Panasonic TZ30 AVCHD MTS to iMovie/FCE without losing quality

In this article you can get a brief instruction about how to transcode Panasonic DMC-TZ300 AVCHD MTS footage to iMovie and FCE editable formats on Mac (Yosemite and Mavericks included).

Thx to Panasonic new Lumix DMC-TZ30 (also known as the DMC-ZS20 in the USA), professional photographers or amateurs would love to travel around, take stunning pictures and record video footages due to its 20x 24-480mm lens, 14.1 megapixel high sensitivity MOS sensor, 1080p Full HD movies at 50/60fps, 3 inch touch-sensitive LCD screen and fast burst shooting at 10fps with continuous auto-focus. While if you want to import your recorded AVCHD MTS footage in iMovie or FCE for editing, you might be disappointed because AVCHD is not natively supported by iMovie and FCE. It's better you could find a Mac AVCHD MTS Video Converting program to transcode TZ30 AVCHD MTS footage to iMovie and FCE acceptable AIC MOV format.

Give Compressor up. I recommed transcode Panasonic DMC-TZ30 1080p AVCHD footage to AIC MOV codec with Pavtube MTS/M2TS Converter for Mac. The app save me 2 hours and even more.

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How to transcode Panasonic DMC-TZ300 AVCHD footage to iMovie and FCE editable formats on Mac?

Step 1. Copy AVCHD folder from Panasonic DMC-TZ30 camcorder onto hard disk, and drag 1080p AVCHD .mts files to this top Pavtube Mac AVCHD to iMovie/FCE Converter.

Step 2. Click "Format" button, then select "iMovie and Final Cut Express > Apple Intermediate Codec(AIC) (*.mov)" as the best output format for iMovie and FCE.

Tips: You could click "Settings" icon to set output parameters, like set up the video frame rate as 30fps, video size as 1920*1080 so you could get best video quality for converting DMC-TZ30 AVCHD footage to AIC for iMovie/FCE on Mac for further editing.

Step 4. Click "Convert" button to transfer Panasonic TZ30 MTS to AIC MOV for iMovie/FCE AIC on Mac immediately.

Tips: Before conversion, you can make some settings or editings like merging videos, trimming videos, adding watermark and so on.

After a successful conversion, click "Open" button on program main UI to locate and move the generated AIC MOV files into iMovie or FCE for editing.

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Monday, June 24, 2013

Make Sony A58 AVCHD footages working with iMovie/FCE on Mac

How to convert Sony SLT-A58 AVCHD MTS for editing in FCE/iMovie?

Monday, June 3, 2013

Import Panasonic TZ30 AVCHD MTS to iMovie/FCE without losing quality