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Importing Sony HDR-XR150 1080 60i AVCHD movie files to AIC .mov for iMovie Editing - jacknjchn - 11-01-2013
Owing to Sony HDR Handycam recording video in AVCHD MTS/MPEG, orminiDV, for Mac users, you cannot directly import these MTS, MPEG,miniDV video to Mac to edit with iMovie, FCP, etc. So if you want to import Sony HDR-XR150 1080 60i videos to iMovie, how to do that?
As noted by many early adopters of iMovie ’11, the software still does not support the import of AVCHD (.mts) files from a number of camcorders; Sony HDR-XR150 could be one of them. Here take an easy solution to make iMovie recognize Sony XR150 footage easily. Let's read together!
In fact, the favorable format of iMovie is Apple Intermediate Codec (AIC) MOV. So the easy way is to convert AVCHD to AIC for iMovie before importing with the professional Mac MTS Converter for HDR-XR150. It provides Apple built-in codec with .mov as file extension, which is one of the only programs on Mac to open .mts and .m2ts files and convert them easily.
Quick Guide to:transcode Sony HDR-XR150 1080 60i AVCHD to iMovie on Mac OS X step by step.
Step One: Run the top AVCHD to iMovie Converter on Mac, and click the "Add" button to download .mts files from camcorder to the application.
Step Two: Click the "Format" option, and select Final Cut Express > Apple Intermediate Codec(AIC) (*.mov) as the exported video format. What’s more, you are free to choose the folder where you want to put converted MOV file by clicking the “Output” icon.
Step Three: Click the "Settings" button; choose 1920*1080 as output video size, 30fps as frame rate for editing Sony XR150 MTS video in iMovie smoothly.
Step Four: Hit the Convert icon and start to convert Sony HDR-XR150 MTS to AIC .mov for iMovie immediately.
And after a few minutes, Sony HDR-XR150 files are ready for you to import to iMovie 09/10/11 for editing on Mac OS X without any trouble.