Today's most variety of camcorders like Sony, Canon, Panasonic, JVC etc are able to record 1080P full HD videos in the video format of either AVCHD, MTS, MOD or MXF files. These HD videos can deliver unprecedented video and audio experience that you will never imagine in the old days.
However, these videos can not imported into Mac direclty, if you transfer AVCHD, MTS, MOD, MXF files to iMovie, Final Cut Pro on Mac, most often, you will find you can't. Because your Mac can't natively accept vidoes in such format.
To import camcorder AVCHD, MTS, MOD, MXF files to iMovie, Final Cut Pro etc on Mac. for editing.You need get a program to transcode your camcorder AVCHD, MTS, MOD, MXF files to iMovie, Final Cut Pro friendly MP4 or MOV files. And as far as I know, there is one program named Video Converter for Mac that can solve the problem perfectly.
With Video Converter for Mac, you can easily convert any video format like AVI, WMV, MOV, MPG, MP4, MKV, FLV, DV, AVCHD, MTS, MXF, MOD etc to whatever format you need on Mac (Mountain Lion included). And below are the detailed steps to use Video Converter for Mac.
Step by step to convert videos on Mac with Mac Video Converter
Step 1: Load video files
After installing Video Converter Mac, just drag and drop camcorder AVCHD, MTS, MOD, MXF videos to the program. Or go to the “File” meun to choose “Add Video/Audio files” to import camcorder video files
Step 2: Choose proper output format
Click the format icon to pop up a output format list where you can choose your desired output video format, such as go to “Apple Software”->“iMovie” or “Apple Software”-> “Final Cut Pro”
Step 3: Convert camcorder AVCHD, MTS, MOD, MXF video on Mac
After all the settings have been done, click “Convert” to start conversion.
Tips: If you need to import videos from camcorder to Windows, in the same way, you need to convert camcorder AVCHD, MTS, MOD, MXF files to Windows compatible AVI, WMV, MPG using a Video Converter.