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Re: Official AVCHD Support in iMovie?

Ben, NJ — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 15:23:25 -0000

I'm interested to hear, too. I understood it doesn't edit AVCHD natively, it converts it into a format that iMovie can use. The output isn't HD though, I would guess? Right?

I hear Final Cut 4 DOES allow AVCHD editing, though. But I've never been able to figure out how to get started on FC. Can anyone recommend a good how-to-get-started tutorial??

If anyone wants a cool Mac utility check out VisualHub - it allows conversion between multiple different video format (not AVCHD though). It's about $20 to download and is excellent. I use it with my UX1to convert the VOB files into DV and it works perfectly, every time. http://www.techspansion.com...

Re: Official AVCHD Support in iMovie?

Sean Tierney — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:29:05 -0000

Ben- did this work for you? I'm in the same boat w/ my sony HDR-SR1 camera in that I can't bring the footage into iMovie. Wondering if iLife '08 did in fact this for you...

sean

Re: Official AVCHD Support in iMovie?

Ben parker — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 01:14:23 -0000

And how much it will cost?

Re: Official AVCHD Support in iMovie?

Andrew O'Donald — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 12:18:04 -0000

I'm very curious about your progress with the HDR UX1. I got mine around Christmas time and have been filling miniDVDs with AVCHD content for the whole year. I bought iLife '08 but have been unable to get my Mac to mount the camera. About the best I can get is to finalize a miniDVD and connect the camera via the USB. Then the miniDVD shows up with a root folder called BDMV. Inside that are six folders/files; BACKUP, CLIPINF, index.bdmv, MovieObject.bdmv, PLAYLIST, STREAM. Inside each is various files. I think the actual video is in stream and the files have the .m2ts suffix. I can't get these files to open in iMovie, QT7Pro, VLC player. I have several codec packages like Perian installed, but to no avail.

Anyway I'm very interested in your discoveries in this area.

Thanks, keep posting,
AO