What is AVCHD and the output formats of the avchd camcorders?
AVCHD is a high definition digital video camera recorder format, with MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 video compression codec. The file format is widely applied in tapeless consumer camcorders. Both .mts and .m2ts are general file extensions for AVCHD videos.
How to playback AVCHD Shootings
Doremisoft Mac AVCHD Converter is the best Advanced Video Coding high definition video camera software that makes your HD video totally awesome. AVCHD Video Converter Mac enables you to convert M2TS, MTS, etc videos to most popular formats, such as MOV, MP4, AVI, 3GP, FLV, MPEG-4, MP3, etc. Then you can import HD movies on hugely significant pieces of Mac applications, like iMovie, FCP, FCE, iDVD and more.
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From the very beginning, you should do this:
1. Connect camcorder to your Mac computer with cable (USB/Wi-Fi)
2. Select mode of camcorder such as PC/Computer mode.
Key part: Convert AVDHD video with Mac AVCHD Converter
Download and install Mac AVCHD Converter, after the install ended please launch it.
2. Click Add Files to load AVCHD files for AVCHD format conversion. (Support batch converter, so you can convert multiple files with one click of a button)
Select output format.
Click Profile drop down list to select output format
Choices: MPEG-4 movie format for iMovie; MOV Format for QuickTime player; FLV format for YouTube, Flash Player.
Click "Start" button to begin conversion.
At the bottom of the interface there exist the big "Start" button please hit it to begin M2Ts to relative Mac conversion.
Make the converted videos work on Mac.
Here take iMovie as example:
Save the generated files on PC desktop or other location, launch the iMovie, Movie will automatic open Import window, the next you can review your video or select "Import All"(make sure your switch is set to "Automatic").
