Someone at Apple headquarters messed up seeing as though iMovie doesn’t support a very popular video format, AVCHD used across all of the Panasonic range of HD video cameras. I finally decided to cave and get some software, however I saw an article” about using ClipWrap which “wraps” the video. You have a queue of MTS files straight from your video camera and simply convert them to .mov format. From here you’d then import them into iMovie if you wanted to cut and edit the videos. It takes a long time on my 3 year old MBP with 1080 videos. A 5 minute video takes about 25 minutes to import into iMovie, and just a few minutes to convert. You can then watch them immediately in their .mov format. It’s a simple-to-use piece of software, but I thought I’d recommend it as there’s a few out there that don’t seem great. I better finish up before my laptop melts.
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