General Discussion - Transcode Sony A99 1080 60p footages to iMovie Editing Mac lydia622520 - Wed Nov 14, 2012 11:06 pm Post subject: Transcode Sony A99 1080 60p footages to iMovie Editing Mac
The Sony α99 (or A99 if that rolls off your eyes easier) does Full HD videos with continous autofocus for some truly stunning home-made videos, making your family and friends wonder whether you hired a professional to capture the recent family event or not. But there is one issue that stumped the Sony Alpha A99 users is it is not easy to edit AVCHD in iMovie, as the incompatibility of video file formats of the Sony A99 and iMovie.
Most of us are like to editing video clips from cameras in iMovie on mac.Even though the latest version of iMovie did announce to work with AVCHD which is a camcorder video format used by a variety of camcorder manufacturers, you may not import all AVCHD files to iMovie for editing due to unfriendly codec and limitation of frame rate. So if we want to import and load 1080p video clips from Sony Alpha A99 to iMovie on mac , we must transcode the AVCHD MTS/M2TS files to iMovie optimizing format before import.
The first thing you need to do is to find a best Sony Alpha A99 1080p converter to transfer MTS files to Apple Intermediate Codec(AIC)(*.mov) which is the most compatible format for iMovie.
There are so many converters if you search on google. Here we recommend you to choose Brorsoft 1080p MTS converter according to our rich experience of converting. This kind of software is professional and easy-to-use. You can convert your files without quality loss.
Step 1. Install and run the superb Sony Alpha A99 MTS converter you have found. And imput the files to it.
Tip: If necessary, you can imput several files to the converter one by one to combine them as one file using "Merge into one" functional button.
Step 2: Click the format bar to choose Apple Intermediate Codec(AIC)(*.mov) which can be recognized easily by iMovie as the output format.
Step 3: Click "Settings" on the main interface to adjust the parameters you want including video bitrate, video size, frame rate, audio bitrate and so on.
Tip: You'd better to choose 1920*1080 as video size and 30fps as frame rate. Pay attention, if your original recordings are 1080 50p, then you should choose 25fps as the frame rate.
Step 4: Start Sony Alpha A99 1080p converter to transcode MTS files to AIC for iMovie editing.
Tips for MTS Converter Useage:
1. If the supposed size of the input files is 1GB, then the memory space should be up to 40GB.
2. Auto shutdown: Click Option and tick the box “Shut down the computer after conversion” before conversion starts.
3. There are also many other functions including cropping, trimming, adding watermark adjusting brightness and so on for you. You can click the "Edit" button to have a try.
Apart From that,Sony Alpha A99 MTS converter also can transfer videos to ProRes for FCP editing, you can read Easy way to transfer Sony A99 1080 60p AVCHD footages to FCP on Mac to get more information.
