Do you have some Full-HD AVCHD recordings of 2012 London Olympic Games from Panasonic HDC-SD90EB-W-2012? If so, you must want to edit them to get better playback effect for sharing with family and friends. You should know that AVCHD is not a good format for playing and editing on Mac OS X. It means you have to convert the SD90EB-W-2012 AVCHD .mts/.m2t/.m2ts video firstly.

Situation 1: Copy and trasncode Panasonic HDC-SD90EB-W-2012 AVCHD for playback on Mac.

As we know, on Mac OS, the default media players from Apple QuickTime will not play AVCHD natively. So, if you wanna transfer Panasonic SD90EB-W-2012 AVCHD to Mac for playback with QuickTime, you need to convert the AVCHD files to the compatible format MOV first.

Situation 2: Make Panasonic HDC-SD90EB-W-2012 AVCHD editble for Mac Video Editors.

FCP, FCE, iMovie are the common Mac tools for editing work. While, frustratingly, these non-linear video edit programs usually cannot support AVCHD files well, because both the container and codec of AVCHD are too difficult to handle. In this case, transcoding SD90EB-W-2012 AVCHD to FCP/FCE/iMovie editable formats is the only choice.

Guide: Encode Panasonic HDC-SD90EB-W-2012 AVCHD on Mac for editing or playing




If you want to convert AVCHD to Mac, you need to download and install a all-in-one AVCHD Converter on Mac, we highly recommend this professional Panasonic AVCHD Converter for Mac to you. With it, you can change AVCHD footage to QuickTime MOV, Apple InterMediate Codec (AIC) MOV for iMovie and FCE, MTS/M2TS to Apple ProRes MOV for FCP at fast speed with best output quality. You may also convert MTS to MP4, MTS to AVI, MTS to MPEG as you like.

Step 1: Run the best Mac MTS/M2TS Converter and click the first button to import AVCHD recordings of the 2012 Olympic Games. Alternatively, you can drag and drop the files from Finder to the program.

Step 2: Click the Format option, and you can choose Final Cut Pro > Apple ProRes 422 (*.mov), or iMovie/Final Cut Express > Apple InterMediate Codec (AIC) (*.mov). And the QuickTime .mov option is within the Common Video profile.

Step 3: Click the "Settings" button and choose the video size to 1920*1080, bit rate to high quality, and the frame rate to 50p for playback with QuickTime and 25p for editing in FCP/iMove/FCE. (This step is necessary for best quality videos.)




Step 4: Finally, click the Convert button to start the conversion. After the conversion, you can get the output for playback or editing on Mac freely.

In a word, with the top MTS/M2TS Converter for Mac, you can freely and smoothly play/edit SD90EB-W-2012 Olympic AVCHD videos on Mac at ease. It also fully supports the limited edition Panasonic Lumix G3- DMC-G3TWIN-2012 AVCHD conversion.

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