Panasoni HDC-HS900 can record Full HD video, offer 1080/60p recording, and have the capability of recording 3D content when using Panasonic’s optional 3D conversion lens (VW-CLT1). But it is not easily to transcode Panasonic HDC-HS900 footages to iMovie for editing, why?

There are mainly two reasons why you can not transfer AVCHD files from Panasonic HDC-HS900 to iMovie, incuding iMovie 8/9/11. Firstly, the recordings with the codec H.264/MPEG-4 are highly compressed for saving storage space and smooth playback, but the H.264 files are not suitable for editing, so editing H.264 MTS files in iMovie is always a headaching problem for editors. Secondly, iMovie can not always successfully recognize footages at 60fps or 50fps so far. So if you want to put 1080/60p/50p files to iMovie, you will meet the importing problem sometimes.


How can it be solved?
To sovle the importing problem, the first thing you should understand is that Apple InterMediate Codec is the most compatible video format for iMovie. Thus, you need a powerful and professional AVCHD to iMovie Converter to convert 1080/60p AVCHD to AIC.

Here is a simple instruction for you to imput Panasonic HDC-HS900 1080/60p AVCHD to iMovie'11 without quality loss.



Step 1:To find a best Panasonic HDC-HS900 AVCHD Converter for your Mac OS X. Install and run it on you Mac, then click "Add" button to imput Panasonic HDC-HS900 footages to the program.

Step 2: Click "format" bar to choose the compatible output format for iMovie .
Click "iMovie and Final Cut Express-Apple InterMediate Codec(AIC)(*.mov)" as the best format for editing AVCHD MTS files in iMovie smoothly.
Tip: You can tap the "Browse" button on the main interface to choose the place where you want to save your converted file on your mac.

Step 3: You can click "settings" to customize the output parameters, adjust the resolution, bitrate as you want. Set video size as 1920*1080, video frame rate as 30fps.
Tip:If the clips are recorded as 50fps(PAL), then 25fps frame rate is the best choice for you.

Step 4: Click convert button to start convert Panasonic HDC-HS900 60p AVCHD to AIC on Mac OS X.

When the conversion is at 100%, you can get the converted videos via tapping the "Open" button on the main interface for iMovie'11 editing.

Tip:
The AVCHD Converter is also a useful and wonderful converting tool for importing Panasonic HDC-HS900 1080/60p files to Final Cut Pro, FCE, Avid Media Composer, Adobe Premiere, etc. If you are interested and want to get more info, please browse MTS Converter for Mac for more details.

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