How to Import AVCHD MTS/AVCHD Lite to iMovie/FCP

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How to Import AVCHD MTS/AVCHD Lite to iMovie/FCP
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• Ditigal cameras are always expecting a prospect
  market. In the past two years, the global sales
  of digital cameras have tripled. Based on the
  latest report, Canon, Sony and Panasonic had a
  commanding lead of the counterparts. Meanwhile,
  Panasonic Lumix series outshine its families and
  receive lots of favor from lots of people. Lumix
  series, range from pocket models to digital SLRs,
  its first two models DMC-LC5 and DMC-F7 were
  launched about twelve years ago, likely in 2001.
  In 2009, the AVCHD and AVCHD Lite were introduced
  by Panasonic to be used for the Lumix line
  products.

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• AVCHD Lite is a subset of AVCHD format which
  delivers videos at 30 frames/s with 720-line
  resolution. The DMC-ZS3/DMC-FT1/DMC-TZ7 models
  were released by Panasonic in 2009, they were
  considered to be the first digital cameras that
  offered the AVCHD-lite movie mode. From then on,
  more and more Panasonic digital cameras (Lumix
  DMC-G2, Lumix DMC-FZ35/38, Lumix DMC-FX75, LEICA
  D-LUX 5, LEICA V-LUX 2, Lumix DMC-TZ10/ZS7, etc)
  adapted the AVCHD-lite format.

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• "I used Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ10 to shoot some
  family videos, but I couldn't import them to
  iMovie for post editing". True! This is the most
  frequently asked question of many Panasonic Lumix
  camera users. Most professional editors such as
  iMovie (iMovie 8/9/11), Final Cut Pro(FCP
  6/7),Adobe Premiere Pro, Avid, After Effects and
  more cannot recognize the AVCHD(.mts)/AVCHD Lite
  formats at all. That is exactly the reason why
  users cannot import Panasonic Lumix AVCHD to
  iMovie directly.

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• In fact, we can break off the format limitation
  by using the third-party software. To put it
  another way, we can convert AVCHD to FCP, iMovie,
  Adobe Premiere Pro or other eidtors freely if we
  are able to transcode Panasonic lumix
  AVCHD(.mts)/AVCHD Lite to MOV with H.264
  codec-acceptable format by those editors.
  Doremisoft Mac MTS Converter is the ideal tool to
  accomplish the tasks excellently. It can fast
  convert AVCHD MTS/AVCHD Lite footages to the
  videos format that best fit for the editing
  software. You can never imagine how easy it is to
  conduct the conversion with the help of this
  software.

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• Only five simple steps are required 1. Download
  launch the video converter 2. Import the AVCHD
  (.mts)/AVCHD Lite video files into the program
  3. Set H.264 MOV as the output format 4. Edit
  the video files optionally 5. Start the
  conversion. After the conversion has been done,
  you can transfer the converted files to the
  desired editors for post editing freely.
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