Thursday, April 18, 2013

Fast solve Panasonic DMC FZ38 with iMovie 11 importing issues

Summary: If you encounter any problem loading Lumix AVCHD Lite to iMovie or Final Cut Express, just follow the steps below to make Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ38 videos playable, editable on Mac OS X.

I have a Panasonic DMC FZ38 and I use it to record some videos in AVCHD Lite format, as it will be easier to import from the camera. It will produce high quality at a much lower file size than MJPEG. Whereas, every coin has two sides, I found the AVCHD Lite from Panasonic Lumix FZ38 can't be directly to be imported by iMovie or Final Cut Express.

In fact, the AVCHD Lite compression is not an ideal editable format for Mac OS X with FCP, iMovie, FCE or other video edit programs. Back to the point, if you are attempting to edit AVCHD Lite MTS/M2TS clips with iMoive/FCE, what’s the available workaround? Seek the solution from the below page.

To make 720p AVCHD Lite video files work well with iMovie, Brorsoft MTS/M2TS Converter for Mac is recommended to you, which works as the best Panasonic Lumix AVCHD Lite converter. It helps you transcode AVCHD Lite to iMoive compatible formats like AIC MOV. No matter what version of iMovie you are in use, and what Mac system you are working on, it will assist you to import MTS/M2TS AVCHD files to iMovie for editing smoothly. Plus, it also supports converting 1080p AVCHD MTS/M2TS files to FCP, iMovie, Avid Media Composer, FCE, etc to meet your different needs.

Follow the steps below to make Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ38 videos editable in iMovie/FCE.

Step 1. Run the Brorsoft MTS/M2TS Converter for Mac; click the "Add" button to load the 720p .mts videos in batch.



Step 2. Choose a decent output format as you need via hitting the Format bar. For iMovie/FCE users, iMovie and Final Cut Express> “Apple Intermediate Codec(AIC)(*.mov)" is the best choice.



Step 3. Click the Settings icon to adjust the video, audio parameters to get a best video for editing on your Mac tools. This smart Mac MTS Converter will rewrap 720p MTS videos to .mov keeping original 1280x720 resolution.

Step 4. Click the Convert button to start converting Panasonic Lumix 720p AVCHD Lite to AIC MOV for iMovie/FCE on Mac.

When the conversion ends, locate the output MOV video via clicking the Open button. Later, you can easily import and edit Panasonic Lumix FZ45 videos with FCE/iMovie.

See also:
Play Panasonic DMC-ZS3 AVCHD Lite with QuickTime Player on Mac
Convert Panasonic AVCHD Lite Video to MOV for iMovie on Mac
Convert Panasonic DMC-FZ45 AVCHD Lite to MOV for Mac
How to import single MTS files in iMovie
Transcoding/Import Canon MXF files into Pinnacle Studio

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