Sony AVCHD iMovie Tips-3 Steps to Make Sony AVCHD video files editable in iMovie

I’m about to the point where I want to import Sony AVCHD to iMovie for editing and am wondering what would be the best way to go about it?

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Sony is specializing in electronics, game, entertainment and financial services sectors. The AVCHD cameras and camcorders from Sony are much famous that attract lots of users. For video compression, AVCHD uses the MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 standard, supporting a variety of standard, high definition, and stereoscopic (3D) video resolution, which makes itself incompatible with some professional NLEs.

"I got some outstanding videos from my Sony Handycam and planed to import these AVCHD videos into iMovie for editing. However, iMovie crashed while I tried to load one of my video into it. Is iMovie incompatible with Sony AVCHD? What should I do?"

AVCHD files are not accepted by iMovie, even though iMovie 09 /11 are declared to extract AVCHD files, but actually when you try to import AVCHD to iMovie, various problems still come owing to codec issue. The direct and convenient solution for transferring Sony AVCHD to iMovie is to transcode AVCHD to AIC (Apple InterMediate Codec), the most friendly codec for iMovie with a powerful third party program.

Brorsoft MTS Converter for Mac is developed specifically for converting AVCHD files to video formats usable on iMovie with professional AIC codec. On top of that, it also can help users encode AVCHD videos into other NLEs and portable devices including FCP, Premiere, Avid, Samsung Tablet, Nexus, iPad, iPhone .etc. Now download the software on your Mac (Yosemite included) and follow the guide below to start conversion.

How to Convert Sony AVCHD to AIC for iMovie

Step 1: Install and launch the powerful Mac AVCHD to iMovie Converter, and click the "Add" button to load the Sony AVCHD videos.



Step 2: Click the format bar to choose iMovie and Final Cut Express > Apple Intermediate Codec (AIC) (*.mov) as the output format.



Tip: Before conversion, you can go to "Settings" page to customize the video/audio settings for iMovie: 1920*1080 vide size; 30fps frame rate(for original 60fps videos) or 25fps frame rate(for original 50fps videos).



Step 3: Tap the Arrow Convert button on the main interface to start Sony AVCHD to iMovie conversion.

When the conversion finished, you can directly import the output AIC MOV files under "Open" panel to iMovie for editing without problem.

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AVI to Premiere Elements 13/12/11?-How to Open an AVI in Adobe Premiere Elements

This is a detailed explanation for anyone who's confused by how to import and edit AVI files in Premiere Elements 13/12/11. Read on to get some tricks from it.

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There are two typical issues from the Pinnacle users quoted as below.

Q1: AVI importing error in Premiere Elements

Today, I sat down with Fraps and tried to record gameplay. When I was done recording, I compressed the video file with VirtualDub using the XVid Codec. This is when the problem starts. When I open up Premiere Elements 10 and try to import the file it won't work. The error is: "This type of file is not supported, or the required codec is not installed".

Q2: Adobe Premiere Elements AVI Files No Video

So I use Premiere Elements 11. I import the .avi files. The screen shows nothing, but the audio is playing. Fun fact: I recorded a long gaming session to upload to youtube in parts. So I split the same file in half in Premiere and uploaded it. Forgot to save. Now I come to split it again in the same place. No video.

Actually, Adobe Premiere Elements has the ability to support AVI format. However, AVI is a container format with different video audio codecs. In usual, Premiere Elemets won't import AVI files created by Windows Movie Maker; captured from VHS, CamStudio or other source encoded in XviD, DivX smoothly. To get rid of the issues, you will need to transcode AVI to a more "edit" friendly codec for Premiere Elements like MPEG-2.

Now I share the guide with you how to convert AVI video to Premiere Elements friendly format using Brorsoft Video Converter for Mac. With it, you can effortlessly encode/re-encode AVI for smoothly importing and editing in various non-linear editing systems (NLE), including Adobe Premiere Elements, Adobe Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, iMovie, Avid MC and more. For working AVI clips in Premiere Elements on Windows, try Brorsoft Video Converter. Below is the detailed guide for you.

1. Download, install and run the AVI converter app; click "Add" icon to load your source videos.



2. Choose output format. Just click "Format" menu firstly and then follow "Adobe Premiere/Sony Vegas" to set MPG, MOV or WMV format.



3. Click "Settings" button if you’d like to customize advanced audio and video parameters like Video Codec, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, Audio codec, sample rate, audio channels.



4. Hit the convert button, it will start transcoding AVI for importing to Premiere Elments immediately. Soon after the conversion, just click “Open” button to get the generated files for natively editing in Premiere Elements 8/9/11/13 perfectly.

Additional Tips: This AVI to Premiere Elements Converter not only can help you convert .avi to Adobe Elements, but also enables anyone with AVI files to use in any non-linear editor like Final Cut Pro, iMovie, FCE, Avid Media Composer, etc as long as transcode AVI to a recognizable format. It’s a great tool to meet your different needs.

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