Pavtube AVCHD Converter for Mac is specially developed for AVCHD camera/camcorder users to convert MTS/M2TS/M2T footages to iMovie, Final Cut Express, Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere Pro and more similar video editing software compatible file types with least quality loss.

The Mac AVCHD Converter supports output files for a wide variety of media devices, including iPad, iPod Touch 4, Droid X, HTC Epic 4G, Samsung Galaxy S, Samsung i9000, WD TV, PS3, Xbox 360, and more. With this Mac MTS Converter, you can convert MTS/M2TS to QuickTime, MKV, AVI, MP4, MOV, M4V, WMV, TS, F4V, etc. with desired codec, duration, aspect ratio, and size.

  • Support input AVCHD/ AVCHD Lite footage (*.mts, *.m2ts) at 1080i, 1080p, 720i, and 720p.
  • Convert MTS/M2TS to iMovie, convert MTS/M2TS to FCP, and so on.
  • Support Apple ProRes/DVCPRO/HDV/Avid DNxHD/Apple InterMediate codec encoding.
  • Allow selecting desired video clips to convert, cutting off unwanted areas, merging multiple files into a single one.

How to rewrap AVCHD camcorder MTS files to QuickTime

Step 1: Load camcorder MTS files to Pavtube AVCHD Converter for Mac.
Click “Add” button to load  MTS files shot by Full HD AVCHD Camcorders. You are allowed to add multiple files to do batch conversion at a time. Meanwhile, if you wanna combine several files into a single file, you can tick off the checkbox “Merge into one file”.
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Step 2: Select “Avid DNxHD (*.mov)” as output format for Mac
Click on the dropdown menu of “Format”, and then follow “QuickTime Movie Format” > “Avid DNxHD (*.mov)”.
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Step 3: Set advanced settings
Rewrap AVCHD  MTS files, you are allowed to click “Settings” button to adjust audio and video parameters, including size, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate and audio channel.
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Step 4: Rewrap AVCHD camcorder MTS files to QuickTime on Mac
Click “Convert button to start rewrap MTS files to AVID DN*HD(.mov).

Canon’s 24f stands for “full-frame” video. It is only used in their professional HDV camcorders like the XL H1, XH G1, and XH A1. In the tutorial, I shows you how to log and transfer the Canon 24f  MTS,M2T footage to Final Cut Pro for editing.

Convert Canon Professional HDV Camcorder 24F M2T,MTS files to ProRes 422 for Final Cut Pro.

Step 1. Free download Pavtube HD Video Converter for Mac and run it.  Click “Add” button and import the HDV M2T files  either from scratch disk or cam HDD  to this mac FCP converter.

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As soon as you click the “Editor” button, the following interface will show up, you can adjust the common effect parameters like Brightness, Contrast, and Saturation by dragging the slider bars. If there are stripes on your original M2T videos, you can hit the checkbox “Deinterlacing” to fix it. Check “merge into one“, join multiple videos to one.

Step 2. Click on “Format” bar and follow “Final Cut Pro” template to set a FCP friendly format. For Full HD 1080p HDV files, you are advised to Follow “Final Cut Pro” template and “Apple ProRes 422 (*.mov)” format. If you prefer smaller file size, choose “Apple ProRes 422 (LT) (*.mov)” instead. The “Apple ProRes 422 (Proxy) (*.mov)” format offers file size at SD levels and is recommended for 480i/p and 576i/p shootings. The “Apple ProRes 4444(*.mov)” creates videos in lossless quality at huge file size, and is not recommended for home video making.

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Step 3. Click the “Settings” button and customize proper video/ audio parameters if necessary.  Video size, bitrate and fame rate are flexible and can be adjusted as you like.

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Step 4. Click “Browse” button to set a location on your HDD for the output video file. Make sure there are enough disk space for saving generated files.

Step 5. Click “Convert” to start transferring HDV M2T to Apple ProRes 422 codec. The conversion process may take long time due to huge file size but trust me–  Pavtube HD Video Converter for Mac is faster than most other video converter tools like Compressor. After conversion just click the “Open” button to locate converted video files for importing to FCP. As Apple ProRes codecs are natively supported by FCP, the rendering time is saved as well.

Final Cut Express doesn’t actually edit AVCHD MTS files, it Log and transfer  MTS to Apple Intermediate Codec(AIC), which is a much more editing friendly HD supporting codec.Final Cut will only handle AVCHD files when it finds them in their original file structure (either by connecting the camcorder or using a memory card reader), not isolated .mts files. The biggest problem will be storage. For doing that type of work AIC takes a lot more space then AVCHD. figure a multiple of 3-7x the file storage size for a single video file, then multiply that by 3 or 4 to account for working space. So, for example, let’s say you have videos to import, the videos total about 6 gig on your camcorder, they will take 18 – 42 gigs of hard drive space just to import the footage.Figuring 3 to 4x that for editing space, you’re gonna need between 54 and 168 gig to edit the video.

Give Compressor up. I recommed  convert mts to AIC or Apple’s ProRes 422 codec with Pavtube MTS to Apple Codec Converter. It save me 2 hours or more.

More functions about this MTS Converter for Mac: http://www.pavtube.com/mts-converter-mac/

How to convert MTS to Apple Intermediate Codec(AIC) for Final Cut Express faster

Step one. Free Download and install  Pavtube MTS to Apple Codec Converter. Click ‘Add’ button, browse to the AVCHD MTS files  and load them to the MTS to AIC  converter. You can check the files and take thumbnails in Preview window.

Step two. Select the items to be converted, and click on ‘Format’ bar to specify output format. FCE compatible formats such as Apple Intermediate Codec(AIC), MP4, MOV, MPG, DV, AVI can be found in the profile list. For instance, you could follow Final Cut->Apple Intermediate Codec(AIC)(*.mov).

Step three. Click the ‘Settings’ button and set proper video/ audio parameters. My advice is to set the video size, bitrate and fame rate to be exactly as the footages so that you will suffer least quality degradation. For example, when the video is shot at 1920*1080, 5mbps, 30fps, you could set Size-1920*1080, Bitrate-original, Frame rate-30. If you would like to use default settings, simply skip this step.

Step four. Click the ‘Browse’ button next to the Export to field and select a location on your HDD for the output video file.

Step five. Click the ‘Convert’ button to start converting MTS files to AIC for FCE on Mac.

After conversion you can click the ‘Open’ button to locate converted video files, and edit the video footages for playback on QuickTime connected to your HDTV, as well as on Mac.

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