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Imput Panasonic HDC-HS900 1080/60p AVCHD to iMovie'11


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    Announced at the 2011 Consumer Electronic's Show, the HDC-HS900 High Definition Camcorder is a high-end HD offering from Panasonic. Right off the bat a few of the camera's most desirable features include: 1920 x 1080/60p recording, a 220GB hard disk drive, an SD memory card slot, the option to record in 3D, and a quality image sensor system. These features give you detailed, beautiful images, a plethora of recording space, and the ability to shoot fun and unique movies in 3D with an optional lens.


    Highlights:
    1920 x 1080p HD
    3D Recording with Optional VW-CLT1 Lens
    220GB Hard Disk Drive
    SD/SDHC/SDXC Memory Card Slot
    3 x 3.05MP 1/4.1" 3MOS Sensor
    3.5" Touch Screen LCD Display & EFV
    35mm Wide-Angle Lens
    20x Intelligent Zoom
    HYBRID Optical Image Stabilization
    14.2MP Digital Still Capture


    Opinions from users:
    The good: Generally excellent video quality and a straightforward, if somewhat unglamorous, interface highlight the Panasonic HDC-HS900, TM900, and SD800's capabilities.
    The bad: Wonky white balance and lack of a built-in neutral density filter are the two biggest drawbacks of an otherwise very good series of prosumer camcorders.


    Have you met the problem while you are trying to imput the footages of holiday videos or other interesting clips from the Panasonic HDC-HS900 to iMovie'11? We have got much feedback from our customers that they are annoying with the editing problem as the user encountered below .


    "Panasonic HDC-HS900
    iMovie 11 Version 9.0.4
    I have recorded at 1090/50p. When I launch iMovie and go to:
    FILE>IMPORT>MOVIES>AVCHD>BDMV>STREAM
    the .MTS files are greyed out, so I cannot select them?
    Any ideas would be appreciated."


    We believe that it is not an unfamiliar issue for the camcorder users. Two questions about this problem, Why & How.


    Why did the problem occur?
    There are mainly two reasons why you can not transfer AVCHD files from Panasonic HDC-HS900 to iMovie, incuding iMovie 8/9/11. Firstly, the recordings with the codec H.264/MPEG-4 are highly compressed for saving storage space and smooth playback, but the H.264 files are not suitable for editing, so editing H.264 MTS files in iMovie is always a headaching problem for editors. Secondly, iMovie can not always successfully recognize footages at 60fps or 50fps so far. So if you want to put 1080/60p/50p files to iMovie, you will meet the importing problem sometimes.


    How can it be solved?
    To sovle the importing problem, the first thing you should understand is that Apple InterMediate Codec is the most compatible video format for iMovie. Thus, you need a powerful and professional AVCHD to iMovie Converter to convert 1080/60p AVCHD to AIC.


    Preparation: To find a best Panasonic HDC-HS900 AVCHD Converter for your Mac OS X.


    Here is a simple instruction for you to transcode Panasonic HDC-HS900 recordings to iMovie without quality loss.


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    Step 1: Install and run the best MTS Converter for Mac you have found. Import Panasonic HDC-HS900 footages to the converter.


    Step 2: Click "format" bar to choose the compatible output format for iMovie .
    Click "iMovie and Final Cut Express-Apple InterMediate Codec(AIC)(*.mov)" as the best format for editing AVCHD MTS files in iMovie smoothly.
    Tip: You can tap the "Browse" button on the main interface to choose the place where you want to save your converted file on your mac.

    Step 3: You can click "settings" to customize the output parameters, adjust the resolution, bitrate as you want. Set video size as 1920*1080, video frame rate as 30fps.
    Tip:If the clips are recorded as 50fps(PAL), then 25fps frame rate is the best choice for you.


    Step 4: Click convert button to start convert Panasonic HDC-HS900 60p AVCHD to AIC on Mac OS X.


    When the conversion is at 100%, you can get the converted videos via tapping the "Open" button on the main interface for iMovie'11 editing.


    Tip:
    The AVCHD Converter is also a useful and wonderful converting tool for importing Panasonic HDC-HS900 1080/60p files to Final Cut Pro, FCE, Avid Media Composer, Adobe Premiere, etc. If you are interested and want to get more info, please browse MTS Converter for Mac for more details.


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