MTS to Avid-Mac Transcode/Edit MTS to Avid Media Composer from Panasonic HS250

Panasonic gradually build a strong position at the high end of the HD camcorder market, like its prevailing models, like Panasonic HDC TM900, Panasonic SDT750, Panasonic HDC TM700, HDC HS250, HDC SD60 and DMC-ZS7. Camcorder generated AVCHD video files offer people the wonderful visual feast but it also has its bad point of difficulty in editing and playing. For better edit HDC-HS250 AVCHD files on Avid Media Composer, a high quality of AVCHD converter is essential for decoding AVCHD to Avid MC MOV.

By googling Panasonic HS250 converter, a program named Aunsoft Final Mate for Mac will come out. And also it is the most efficient Mac Panasonic AVCHD converter which is powerful in converting and editing HS250 AVCHD files to MOV for Avid MC.

Here is the step by step guide for you to Transcode/Edit Panasonic HDC-HS250 MTS to Avid MC on iMac/MacBook Pro with Mac OS X like Leopard, Snow Leopard.

Step 1. Capture/Import AVCHD videos to Aunsoft Final Mate for Mac.
Aunsoft Final Mate for Mac will detect the camcorder and run the camcorder wizard for capturing videos. You just choose the Import option to import the MTS files from Panasonic HS250 AVCHD files to Final Mate for Mac. And the imported footages will be lying in camcorder tab. Or you can choose Backup, after backup, the movies will be placed in Resource Tab.


Step2. Create a Movie for HS250 MTS files to MOV
Select all the MTS files by clicking “Ctrl+A” and then drag and drop them from Camcorder Tab area to Movies Tab, you will face a popup window asking for creating a single movie or create a movie for each file, if you want to merge all the MTS files to one and make a conversion, please choose Create a single movie. If you don’t like to join them, please choose the later.

Step 3. Export H.264 MOV format for Avid MC.
Click the Export button and choose “Export into Editor”. Follow Avid Studio > H.264 HD MOV (*.mov) to choose output format for this HS250 AVCHD files to MOV conversion for Avid Media Composer 5. And you are free to set output MOV files parameters (Bit rate, Frame rate, Size, Resolution and channel).

Step 4. Convert Panasonic HS250 MTS to Avid MC.
Click the OK button after all settings done, and the Mac Panasonic AVCHD converter will start the conversion from Panasonic HDC-HS250 MTS to MOV for Avid Media Composer.

After the conversion, it is easy to import HD videos to Avid MC without problem, and create movies with the video footage.

Tip:
1. Aunsoft Final Mate for Mac is designed for AVCHD, TOD, MOD camcorders, so mxf, vro, mov/mpg/mp4 files from digital cameras are not supported as input temporarily. If you want to convert such videos files, please use Aunsoft Video Converter for Mac.

2. If you have many camcorder files like MTS, M2TS, mxf, vro, mov/mpg/mp4, etc and Blu-ray/DVD movies for editing in Avid MC before sharing with family or uploading to YouTube, or playing with media player, please use Aunosft iMedia Converter for Mac.

Transcode/Convert AVCHD MTS/M2TS Video to FCP Apple ProRes 422 without rendering on Mac

Apple ProRes 422 is a standard-definition and high-definition lossy video compression format developed by Apple Inc. for use in post production. It was introduced in 2007 with Final Cut Studio 2 and is comparable to Avid’s DNxHD codec which has the same purpose and uses similar bit rates. Both are DCT basedintra-frame-only codecs, and are therefore simpler to decode than distribution oriented formats like H.264. FCP/FCP7 is Mac based editing software which supports transcoding AVCHD MTS/M2TS to Apple ProRes for further editing.

AVCHD MTS/M2TS files produced by HD camcorder like Panasonic HDC-TM700, HDC-HS700, HDC-SD700/SD600, Sony CX350, Sony CX550, Canon HF200, etc are not the preferred formats by FCP/FCP7. Even you will have problem for transferring and logging these MTS, M2TS videos.

So the program you need is a great Mac MTS Video to Apple ProRes 422 Converter. With it, you can convert any HD camcorder 1080 60p/50p, 1080i AVCHD (*.mts, *.m2ts), 720p AVCHD lite files to Apple ProRes 422 for editing with Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Pro 7 on Mac.

Below is the step-by-step guide for you to quickly Transcode/Import AVCHD to FCP Apple ProRes 422 Codec (*.mov) for editing.

Step 1. Download MTS/M2TS files to Apple computer.
Connect your AVCHD camcorder c to Apple computer via USB cable, find the .mts, *.m2ts files from the camera folder like PRIVATE > AVCHD > BDMV > STREAM. Then copy and transfer the .mts, *.m2ts files from camera to the Apple hard drive disk.

Step 2. Import MTS/M2TS files to Aunsoft Video Converter for Mac.
Run Aunsoft Video Converter for Mac as the best AVCHD to FCP Apple ProRes Converting software, and click the “Add” button to load AVCHD .mts or .m2ts videos. You may also directly drag and drop the AVCHD video to application UI for importing files.

Step 3. Choose Final Cut Pro–Apple ProRes (*.mov) output format.
Click the “Format” option and navigate the mouse cursor to Final Cut Pro > Apple ProRes 422 (*.mov) as output format. The Mac MTS/M2TS Video to FCP Converter will convert AVCHD to Apple ProRes 422 MOV with high quality. (Tip: The Apple ProRes (*.mov), DVCPROHD (*.mov), HDV (*.mov) formats under Final Cut Pro output profile are available when your FCP is installed on Mac).

Step 4. Convert AVCHD MTS/M2TS video to Apple ProRes (*.MOV) for Final Cut Pro.
Click the convert button under the preview window, and the Mac MTS/M2TS to FCP Converter will start the conversion from AVCHD to Apple ProRes MOV for Final Cut.

After the conversion, you can easily import Apple Prores 422 to Final Cut Pro without rendering for editing.

Tips:

If you would like to edit AVCHD MTS/M2TS with FCE/iMovie, Avid, etc, you can convert MTS/M2TS to Mac itself bring format like Apple Intermediate Codec, DV PAL/NTSC, DVCPRO NTSC/PAL, DVCPRO50 PAL/NTSC (*.MOV) for FCE and iMovie, or transcode MTS/M2TS to Avid DNxHD (*.mov) for Avid on Mac.