How to Link/Edit Sony HDR-GW77V Full HD 60p MTS to iMovie

Do you like shooting videos when you are swimming? If so, what camcorder are you using? I believ the Sony HDR-GW77V will be many people's best choice. It can record MTS footage up to 1080p@60pfps. If you wnna link the camcorder to Mac for editing the rcordings in iMovie for sharing with family, please note that iMovie doesn't support 60p AVCHD. You'd better shoot 1080i and 720p AVCHD files. However, if you have got some Full HD 60p MTS files from GW77V, you'd better use FCP X 10.0.4 or above to natively edit it, if not, you have to transcode AVCHD to AIC before ingestuing to iMovie.

I read about Brorsoft AVCHD to iMovie Converter in a forum. And I can easily use it to convert AVCHD to AIC, ProRes, and other formats for Mac without quality loss. Besides, it work fast and without extra steps. So I think it is a great solution for people who has sony's (or AVCHD format) handycams.



Step 1. Run the best MTS Converter on Mac, click "Files" to add Sony NEX full HD 60p clips. You also can batch encode AVCHD files.

Step 2. Click "Format" bar to find "iMovie and Final Cut Express" category, then you will see the best format "Apple Intermediate Codec(AIC) (*.mov)".

Step 3. You can set video resolution(1920×1080/1440×1080/1280×720/720×480), bitrate(from 1Mbps to 20Mbps), frame rate (24p/25p/30p) freely. Get highest setting as the below picture.



Step 4. Click the "Convert" button under the preview window, and the conversion from Sony NEX-5R 1080 24p/60p MTS to MOV for iMovie will start immediately.

Now, you can smoothly get the converted Sony HDR-GW77 1080p recordings to iMovie for freely editing without any trouble on Mac OS X.

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Converting Sony Alpha NEX-5R 1080 60p AVCHD for editing in iMovie 8/9/11

How to get the Sony Alpha new camera NEX-5R 60p videos to iMovie? Many users want to kown the answer. Because The nonstandard 1080 60p AVCHD(MTS/M2TS) still can't compatible with iMovie, including iMovie 8/9/10/11. Then how to successfully import NEX-5R 1080 60p MTS clips to iMovie? In the post, I will share my an easy way to make Alpha NEX-5R MTS footages editable for iMovie on Mac.

In fact, the best codec of iMovie is AIC in 1080 60i, 30p, 24p, 720p, so we can encode 60p AVCHD to 60i or 30p AIC before copying to iMovie. 1080 60i is an interlaced format, so we'd better convert 1080 60p MTS to 30p AIC MOV on Mac OS X. Then you should use a MTS to iMovie convert software. Here I advise you to use the powerful MTS Converter for iMovie. With it, you can easily convert all 720p, 1080p AVCHD/MTS/M2TS/M2T shootings to AIC for smoothly importing and editing in iMovie on Mac. The converted video quality is perfect for freely editing. I believe it will be your best choice.

Guide: How to change Sony NEX 5R AVCHD to AIC for iMovie



Step 1. Run the best MTS Converter on Mac, click "Files" to add Sony NEX full HD 60p clips.

Step 2. Click "Format" bar to find "iMovie and Final Cut Express" category, then you will see the best format "Apple Intermediate Codec(AIC) (*.mov)".

Tip: Set the video frame rate as 30fps, video size as 1920*1080 and keep 5.1 channels to keep the best quality for editing in iMovie.



Step 3. Click the "Convert" button under the preview window, and the conversion from Sony NEX-5R 1080 24p/60p MTS to MOV for iMovie will start immediately.

After the conversion, you will get excellent results by click "Open". That is to say you can easily put the converted file to iMovie for further editing without troubles.