Solve Panasonic SD900 60p AVCHD MTS/M2TS files to iMovie importing problem

iMovie is a price but excellent Mac vide editing software. The latest version is iMovie 11, it can be worked at Mac OS X Lion (10.7.4 and later). It has the ability to make trailers for home movies, more control over audio, instant replay and flash and hold effects, facial recognition, news themes, and the ability to watch the video on a Mac, iPad, iPhone/iPod touch, or Apple TV, as well as sharing on Facebook and YouTube. It now supports the AVCHD Lite format. It is a pity that, the iMovie doesn't support 1080 60p AVCHD format.

Panasonic HDC SD900 recorded is an advanced camera, it can capture 1920 x 1080 60p Full HD AVCHD .mts/m2ts files at 28Mbps. If you try to import the video to iMovie for further editing, you will found the iMovie can not recognize the files. The what should we do to solve incompatible problems? In fact it is easy if you has the professional AVCHD to iMovie Converter.



Step1: Import AVCHD 60p footages to Mac MTS Converter.

Connect the Panasonic HDC-SD900 to your Apple with USB2.0, or isert card into your Mac. Run Brorsoft MTS Converter for Mac and then click the adding button to load the Panasonic SD900 1080/60p MTS/M2TS files.

Step 2: Select an output format and set the output folder.

Click on the “Format” and you will get a dropdown menu. Move you pointer to iMovie and Final Cut Express > Apple Intermediate Codec(AIC) (*.mov). The Apple Intermediate Codec(AIC) is the best codec for iMovie. Then you can set the output folder by clicking “Browse” icon as you need.

Step3: Adjust audio and video parameters.

Click the “Settings” icon and adjust codec, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate and audio channel in the interface as you want.

Tip: You'd better set the video frame rate as 30fps, video size as 1920*1080 and keep 5.1 channels to keep the best quality for copying SD900 60p AVCHD videos to iMovie.



Step4: Start the fast conversion.

Click the “Convert” button; it will convert/transcode Panasonic HDC-SD900 AVCHD 1080/60p MTS/M2TS to iMovie11 on Mac immediately. You can find the process in the “Conversion” interface.

As soon as the above things are over, you can see the converted video file by clicking "open". Now you can have a good time on playing and editing your Panasonic SD900 HD videos.