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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