General Discussion - Convert AVCHD MTS/M2TS to MOV for editing in FCP on Mac bensonhu62 - Wed Sep 28, 2011 7:10 pm Post subject: Convert AVCHD MTS/M2TS to MOV for editing in FCP on Mac
We find many cameras or camcorders in our life. To record something or take pictures has become popular everywhere and anytime. It is exciting to keep memories forever. In order to catch up with this digital life, many companies are studying editing software to adjust with AVCHD format, such as FCP.
Some question occurs! Though FCP claimed that it could support MTS/M2TS format, we still encounter difficulty when we import MTS/M2TS files to FCP for editing. What happened? What can we do? I think most of you have confusion and want to know the answer.
We find the best way is to convert your MTS/M2TS files to MOV format, which FCP can support well. Here we must recommend you tool, MTS/M2TS to MOV Converter. Now let us do together step by step. We will show you detailed information to convert/transcode your AVCHD MTS/M2TS formats to MOV for editing in FCP.
Conditions for conversion:
1) the MTS/M2TS to MOV Converter(Free for trial version)
2) a Mac with 1G Hz or above Intel processor and Mac OS X 10.5 or 10.5 above (including Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard, v10.6 Snow Leopard and Mac OS X 10.7 Lion)
Now the conversion starts:
Step 1: Import your MTS/M2TS files to the best MTS/M2TS to MOV Converter for Mac.
Launch the MTS/M2TS to MOV Converter. Click the button for adding to import the MTS/M2TS files to the best MTS/M2TS to MOV Converter. You can tick the box in front of the file you want to convert. If it is necessary, you can double click the each file to have a preview or get the screen shots as you like by clicking the “Capture”.
Tip 1: If you have multiple MTS files, you can tick the “Merge into one” box to combine the MTS /M2TS into one single file so that you can play these files without interruption.
Tip 2: If you want to do the batch conversion, you just need to add all the MTS/M2TS files to the MTS/M2TS to MOV Converter for Mac and then follow the steps listed below.
Step2: Choose an output format for MOV and set the output folder.
Press on the “Format” and you will get a drop down menu. Move you pointer to “Final Cut Pro”, and you will find there are a few formats which are all compatible with Final Cut Pro under the sub list. Here we recommend “Apple ProRes 422(HQ) (*.mov)”, if taking the high quality as the priority. Then you can set the output folder by clicking “Browse” icon as you need.
Note: If you want the files be in smaller size, you may need to follow Final Cut Pro>Apple ProRes 422(LT) (*mov) option. If the quality of your MTS/M2TS files is at SD levels, you are advised to choose Final Cut Pro>Apple ProRes 422(Proxy) (*mov), which is recommended for 480i/p and 576i/p shootings as well.
Step 3: Click “Settings” button to adjust the audio and video parameters.
Press the “Settings” and you will go to a new interface named “Profile Settings”. You can adjust codec, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate and audio channel in the interface as you like as well as optimize the output file quality.
Note: You'd better set the video frame rate as 30fps, video size as 1920*1080 to keep the best quality for editing in Final Cut Pro. If you aim at having a smaller file size but keeping the good quality, you can change the video size to 1440*1080.
Step 4: Begin converting your MTS/M2TS files to MOV on Mac.
Click the “Convert” button; it will convert AVCHD MTS/M2TS to MOV immediately. You can find the process in the “Conversion” interface.
When you finish above conversion, you can easily edit AVCHD files with FCP. You will find it is not difficult to convert/transfer MTS/M2TS files to MOV format compatible with FCP on Mac.
Tip:
1. The professional MTS/M2TS to MOV Converter is the best application for Camera/Camcorder users for the reason that it not only can convert MTS/M2TS to MOV for editing in FCP, but also can convert and transcode MTS/M2TS files to other video editing software freely, such as FCE, iMovie, Adobe Premiere, etc.. Please link to Brorsoft. MTS/M2TS to MOV Converter for Mac. You can get more useful information.
