“Hi, I’m fairly new to Media Composer and I’m having trouble importing video into the computer. I have a Panasonic AG-HMC40P which is an AVCHD camera. From what I’ve read, it seems that this format is rather tricky with MC. So how to I import my footage AVCHD to MC?”

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Recently, I found some people met the above issues I had experience before. If you are just looking for the method to import AVHCD to the Avid Media Composer, the tutorial will share with you an easiest and fastest way to realize it.

To start, we should know that the Avid Media Composer is a non-linear editing system which supports a large range of audio/video formats like MOV, AVI, WMV, MP4, 3GO, etc. However, the Avid can not accept AVCHD files from AVCHD cameras. Therefore, it is necessary to convert AVCHD (MTS/M2TS) to the Avid workable formats, like AVI, MOV, WMV, 3GP, MP4, etc. Here I prefer to take Moyea MTS/M2TS Converter for Mac for example to share the concrete steps about how to convert AVCHD to MC with ease?

Preparation: Free download Moyea MTS/M2TS Converter for Mac here, install and run it.

Step 1: Click the “Add” button to import your AVHCD files into this Mac MTS/M2TS Converter tool

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Step 2: Choose output format as Avid workable formats like MOV/WMV/MP4/AVI/3GP, etc

Step 3: Click the “Convert” button to start AVCHD conversion .

Tips:

1) Tick the checkbox “Merge into one file” to join/combine several AVHCD files into a single one

2) Click the “Settings” button to set resolution, the aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, codec, size, sample rate, channels for better video quality. If you want to save the settings as default for next use, just hit the “Save as” to make it.

3) Click the “Snapshot” button to capture the current picture you like in the preview panel.