How to import MTS to iMovie for editings

You may say iMovie is a great tool to edit clips from camcorders and videos on your Mac (Lion included) and it can also stabilize shaky clips from your camcorder. Yeah, you are absolutely an experienced iMovie user. But you may also have noticed that iMovie is not as easily accessible as it claimed while importing MTS to iMovie. iMovie ought to accept most of the popular HD cams, like Canon VIXIA HF200, Panasonic HDC-HS30 which record videos in MTS/M2TS format, but actually you may get errors from iMovie sometimes when importing MTS/M2TS to iMovie.

Many Mac users also have difficulty in importing their MTS/M2TS files to iMovie, especially raw MTS files even though they follow the iMovie instructions step by step - iMovie just can't recognized their camcorders at all. If so, you can convert MTS to iMovie with a professional MTS iMovie tool: MTS Converter for Mac, which will accomplish the conversion easily, with ultra fast speed and loss-less video quality. Just follow the below 3 easy steps to fix your MTS/M2TS iMovie problem:

Step 1 : Add MTS files- Click "Load File" icon to import one or more MTS footages from HD camcorders or local HDD into the program. Batch conversion will save you a lot of time.

MTS to iMovie software can be used as a basic MTS Player for Mac, users can freely play and preview the MTS/M2TS files.

"Merge into one file" option has the ability of combining the checked MTS files together so that you can get a continuous output file easily.

Step 2: Configure Output Settings:
Under "Format" dropdown list, Click "iMovie and Final Cut Express" >> H.264 AC3 Video (*.mov) or Apple InterMediate Code(AIC) (*.mov) as output format.

Because the MTS to iMove Converter has presets for the output profiles, so generally speaking, you have no need to reset the video/audio parameter like codec, resolution, bit rate, frame rate, audio channel and more under the windows.

If you wanna import MTS to FCP or FCE, just specify the corresponding output format.

Step 3: Convert MTS to iMovie AIC MOV on Mac Lion immediately by click “Convert” button. With the acceleration technology applied, you will find the MTS to iMovie conversion much faster than counterparts.