The Sony HXR-MC50U(MC50E for PAL) is a prosumer-level camcorder that is packaged with a shotgun mic. The MC50U captures 1080i AVCHD video at a max 24Mbps bit rate. The HXR-MC50U is ideal for multimedia journalists, documentarians, indie filmmakers and any other application where a small, high quality camera is required.

The only issue that stumped the Sony HXR-MC50U users is how to import Sony HXR-NX5E AVCHD footages into iMovie for editing smoothly without rendering. This problem is largely causes by the incompatibility of video file formats of the Sony HXR-MC50U and iMovie. Even though the latest version claims to support AVCHD, you may not import all AVCHD files to iMovie for editing due to unfriendly codec and limitation of frame rate.

To get Sony HXR-MC50U AVCHD footage into iMovie, the best method is to transcode Sony AVCHD footages to iMovie native support format AIC with an easy-to-use AVCHD MTS Converter. This converter should be powerful enough to support 1080i AVCHD and can convert AVCHD to iMovie on Mac OS X.

Here recommended you the best AVCHD to iMovie Converter, which is professionalized in transcoding AVCHD mts/m2ts files. It provides the preset profile Apple Intermediate Codec(AIC) (*.mov) for iMovie. And the converted files are lossless. Now, follow the guide on converting Sony HXR-MC50U AVCHD to AIC .mov for iMovie on Mac OS X step by step.

Step 1: Run the top MTS/M2TS Converter, and load your MTS/M2TS files from Sony HXR-MC50U to it. This program supports batch conversion.

Step 2: Click format column and choose the output format. You are recommended to iMovie and Final Cut Express > Apple Intermediate Codec(AIC) (*.mov) as export.

Step 3: Click settings button to adjust the output video’s parameters, such as bitrate, resolution, etc. 30fps bitrate(25fps for PAL), and 1920*1080 video size will be optimal settings.

Step 4: Click Convert icon; it will convert Sony HXR-MC50U AVCHD to AIC for iMovie on Mac OS X immediately.

After the Sony HXR-MC50U to iMovie conversion, import the converted files to iMovie 09/10/11, then you can edit Sony HXR-MC50U files in iMovie smoothly. Now just download Brorsoft MTS/M2TS Converter for Mac and have a try.

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