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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