In the digital camcorder world, Panasonic HDC series are well-known handycam to take shootings and record people’s happy daily life. As a matter of fact Panasonic HDC is really large family, members of Panasonic HDC includes: 1. Panasonic HDC-SD Series: Panasonic HDC-SD9, HDC-SD10, HDC-SD60, HDC-SD100, HDC-SD200, HDC-SD700, etc. 2. Panasonic HDC-HS Series: Panasonic HDC-HS250, HDC-HS300, HDC-SD60, HDC-HS200, HDC HS100, HDC-HS700, etc. 3.Panasonic HDC-TM Series: Panasonic HDC-TM10, HDC-TM20, HDC-TM60, HDC-TM50, HDC-TM30, HDC-TM200, HDC-TM300, HDC-TM700, etc.
Although it is a piece of cake to take videos with Panasonic camcorder, editing clips from Panasonic HDC video on Mac seems a trouble to many Panasonic owers. Because footages from Panasonic HDC video can not be import to any mac software, neither movie player iTunes, QuickTime nor video editing software iMovie, Final Cut Pro.
Clips form Panasonic HDC camcorders are with AVCHD MTS/M2TS format, which are not supported by playing or editing software on Mac. Since MOV is the most popular format for iMovie and Final Cut Pro, if people want to import HDC video to Mac, they can firstly have a AVCHD to MOV conversion with. Doremisoft Mac AVCHD Video Converter is such kind of shareware to meet Panasonic HDC owners’ requirment, if they do not expect to loss the HD quality, then the target format should be set as H.264.
Steps to convert iMovie/FCP with program Mac AVCHD Video Converter are as follow.
- Import Panasonic HDC Video to Mac AVCHD Converter
- Set Output Video Format for Mac, iMovie, FCP
- Convert Panasonic HDC Video to Mac iMovie/FCP
Plus Mac AVCHD Video Converter is able to act as mac avchd video editor, which allow users to edit AVCHD video from Panasonic HDC series handycam directly without iMovie or Final Cut Pro.