There are many HD camcorders in the market, and AVCHD has become more and more popular among the video shooting lover, avchd is widely used by camcorder producers. Most of Panasonic HDC camcorder record AVCHD format, like Panasonic HDC-TM90, Panasonic HDC-SD800, Panasonic HDC-HS300, Panasonic HDC-SD90, etc. But when you want to import the avchd file into imovie for editing, there will many problems occur.

Though iMovie'11 is claimed to support some of them, it still has some limitations like Video stabilization limitations, failure in supporting footage recorded in 1080-60p or 1080-50p, etc. Moreover, the AVCHD MTS/M2TS file format also has bad incompatibility with other Mac program like QuickTime, Final Cut Pro or FCPX. Just like "I have a Panasonic HDC-SD90 camcorder. I need help getting my videos onto my macbook pro. I have videos on the "1080/50p" setting and i think i need to get them on the "AVCHD" setting in order to get things on IMovie on my mac.... but i cant movie my videoes from the 1080 setting thing to the AVCHD thing.... I'm not even sure if the way i am tryingto do it is the right way...
But could someone please help... I just need to get my videos onto my MacBook Pro ... free and easy...
I have i movie '11 Version 9.0.4 (1635)..."

To solve the problem, AVCHD Converter for Mac must be a great helper that can decode and convert Panasonic AVCHD to Mac compatible file format like MOV, H.264, etc. Then, you can easily play Panasonic HDC AVCHD on Mac with QuickTime, or edit Panasonic AVCHD in iMovie or Final Cut Pro, etc. In addition, the Mac AVCHD Converter also makes it possible to watch the awesome HD footages on the move with handy devices like iPhone 5, iPad, Samsung Galaxy S3, etc. The supported Panasonic camcorder models include:
Panasonic HDC-SD60, HDC-SD90, HDC-SD100, HDC-SD600, HDC-SD800,HDC-SD900, HDC-HS700, HDC-TM60, HDC-TM700,HDC-TM900, HDC-TM80, HDC-HS9, HDC-SX5,etc.

You can learn the Panasonic hdc avchd to mac for iMovie conversion:

First, you should download the mac avchd converter to your mac, then install it, after installation, you can run the software.

Second, import Panasonic AVCHD M2TS file(s) to the Converter (Mountain Lion supported), you can Click "Add File" button to browse the .m2ts video(s) then import them to the program.

Third, Choose an output format, for this you can click the menu of "Profile", choose your target file format. For example, hope to edit the Panasonic HDC AVCHD file in iMovie, select "iMovie MOV" in the "iMovie Video" format list.



Forth, Hit "Start" to run the convert Panasonic hdc avchd on mac conversion. After the conversion finished, you can drag and drop the converted Panasonic video in iMovie'11 and Final Cut Pro or FCP X as well.

Besides, Panasonic Lumix DMC series are ideal cameras for shooting wonderful pictures and movies. They support recording high-definition movies in AVCHD and MJPEG format. However, iMovie also can't import Panasonic Lumix AVCHD/MJPEG smoothly. This AVCHD converter for mac also can help you convert Panasonic Lumix AVCHD/MJPEG to iMovie friendly format with superb quality.