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HDR-SR10E is one of Sony entry-level Handycam series with high video quality and high definition, as well as Face Detection and Super SteadyShot for automatically beautiful pictures. It records 1080i HD videos in AVCHD file structure with extension of .mts, and the integrated 40 GB hard disk drive enables you keep lots of compressed mts files at them same time; around 290 minutes of recording time at full 1920×1080 resolution.

For most Mac users, people like to edit their footages on mac native NLE programs such as FCP, iMovie as well as Avid Media Composer; but when it comes to Sony HDR-SR10E, you have to work with the AVCHD MTS videos firstly—transcode HDR-SR10E MTS to Avid Media Composer compatible codec for further editing. Try this Pavtube MTS/M2TS Converter for Mac, you can easily accomplish this within a few clicks.

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How to convert Sony HDR-SR10E AVCHD MTS to DNxHD MOV for Avid Media Composer on Mac?

Step 1. Connect your Sony HDR-SR10E to Mac; run this Pavtube Mac MTS to Avid Converter installed, click the top left two icons to load individual videos or the entire folder.

Step 2. Click “Format”, choose Avid Media Composer > Avid DNxHD(*.mov) as the best video codec for using in Avid Media Composer.

You can choose to fix the presets by clicking “Settings”; video size, bitrate, frame rate, all included here.

Step 3. Click the red circle at right bottom to start converting Sony HDR-SR10E MTS to DNxHD MOV for Avid Media Composer. Wait for a while or check “start streaming server after conversion”, you can edit the converted video in Avid Media Composer smoothly.

• How to import media files to Avid Media Composer on Mac?

Continue reading »]]> No matter you are using Final Cut Pro 7 or Final Cut Pro X, you may more or less face some problems when trying to import and edit AVCHD files in the Apple professional editing software. Some may be related to the importing clips, editing like effects and transitions, and rendering, etc. Here we focus on importing AVCHD to FCP 7, and rendering.

Question: My new Sony CX190 can’t connect to Final Cut Pro 7 HD.

Answer: Sony CX190 shots videos in AVCHD folder, you say you can’t view it, I guess you are using Mac OS X 10.8, as on this new mountain lion system, AVCHD is showed as a file not a folder, so you may can’t view the file via FCP 7. There are two ways, first just rename the AVCHD fodler to AVCHD.mts, then rename the BDMV folder to BDMV.mts, it will let you see the mts files under it forever. Second, you can use a AVCHD converter to help you convert Sony CX190 AVCHD to FCP 7 preferred ProRes MOV, then you will have no problem to import it into FCP 7. The converter I am using is a converter for Pavtube, you can google Pavtube Sony AVCHD Converter for Mac, then you will find the free trail. In addition, the Converter supports batch conversion, so you are allowed to add multiple files to convert at a time.

Here I will share my experience: How to convert Sony CX190 AVCHD to ProRes MOV for importing to Final Cut Pro 7 on Mac(include Mac OS X Leopard 10.5, Snow Leopard 10.6, Lion 10.7, Mountain Lion 10.8).

Step 1. Connect your Sony HDR-CX190 to your Apple with USB2.0. Install and launch the best Sony AVCHD Converter for FCP 7. When its main interface comes up, click “Add video”/ “Add from folder” to input AVCHD source files captured by your Sony CX190 camera. You can tick the box in front of the file you want to convert. If you are Mac 10.8 users, you can load directly from your camera or from a file folder that contains your source files that stored on your Mac computer.

Tips: 

• 1. If you have multiple 1080/60p MTS/M2TS files, you can select the “Merge into one” box to merge the files into one single file for FCP 7 so that you can play these files without interruption.
• 2. If you intend to split long video for uploading to website, such as YouTube, please select the Split.

Step 2. Go to “Format” menu and choose an output format depending on the editing application you are using. For FCP 7 users, I recommend “Format > Final Cut Pro > Apple ProRes 422 (*.mov) or Apple ProRes 422 (HQ) (.*mov)” as output if you mainly forcus on the HQ quality. But you should know that the AVCHD file is a highly compressed and the AVCHD to ProRes conversion will make the imported files bigger than the originals. If you want a smaller ingested file, ProRes 422(Proxy) and ProRes 422(LT) are the right options for 480i,p and 576i,p shootings. Then you can set the output folder by clicking “Browse” icon as you need.

Step 3. Click the “Settings” icon and you will go into a new interface named “Profile Settings”. You’d better set the video frame rate as 30fps, video size as 1920*1080 to keep the best video quality for editing Sony HDR-CX190 recording file in Final Cut Pro.

Tips:

• 1. If you want a HD converted video in a relatively smaller size but keep the good quality, you can set the video size as 1440*1080 or 1280*720.
• 2. If the original files are shot in 60p, please choose 30 fps as frame rate while 25 fps for 50p files.

Step 4. Click “Edit” and you will go to the “Video Editor”. Then click “Effect” and select “deinterlacing”, then you can Deinterlace the Sony HDR-CX190 shootage on Mac.

Step 5. Click the “Convert” button under preview window to export Apple ProRes MOV files for Final Cut Pro 7. You can find the process in the “Conversion” interface.

Tips:

• 1. If you converted AVCHD  to ProRes for FCP X and got files with sounds only, but no video, you may try to download Apple ProRes codec and convert the videos again.
• 2. If you are using FCP 5 or below on Mac, you can convert AVCHD files to MOV with Apple InterMediate Codec for high quality editing with AVCHD Video Converter.

Once the conversion finished, click “Open” button to get the generated Apple ProRes 422 MOV files.

How to import the converted Canon C100 AVCHD clips to Final Cut Pro (X) for further editing?

Launch Final Cut Pro 7, choose “File > Import > Files…”, and browse to where you save the converted AVCHD clips to. Choose the videos that you’d like to add.

• Read More: How to Import the converted AVCHD to Final Cut Pro 7?

Here is a problem from CreativeCow.net:

“I want to be able to burn all my projects from FCP 7 on a DVD”

If you have a similar problem, don’t worry. I will share some easy steps, pls refer to my old article, as follows:

• How to Free Burn projects from Final Cut Pro 7 to DVD on Mac

Hope my experience helps you.

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For those who love customizing movies, editing movies is necessary. However, if you get a Sony NEX-6 camcorder and want to edit the MTS files on Mac, you will find it is not so easy as neither Final Cut Pro 6/7 nor Final Cut Pro X can edit the AVCHD directly. To solve this problem, there are so many converters if you search on google. Here i recommend you to choose Sony AVCHD Converter for Mac according to my rich experience of converting. This kind of software is professional and easy-to-use. You can convert your files without quality loss.

As in known to us, Apple ProRes MOV is best codec for Mac editing software such as Final Cut Pro 6/7, Final Cut Pro X, FCE and so on, if you need to edit Sony NEX-6 AVCHD 1080p/6p MTS on Mac, you can convert them to MOV first. Just free download Pavtube Sony AVCHD Converter for Mac, follow the guide below to import Sony Nex-6 AVCHD MTS videos to Final Cut Pro 6/7, Final Cut Pro X.

1. Load MTS files from Sony Alpha Nex-6

After running the Sony AVCHD converter for Mac, hit “Add” to load AVCHD files from your Sony Alpha Nex-6 camera. You can drag multiple file to the program one time.

Note:

• If necessary, you can click “” to edit the file- trim, crop and add special effects, add watermark etc. to the file.
• If necessary, you can imput several files to the converter one by one to combine them as one file using “Merge into one” functional button

2. Choose MOV as output format

Click the “Format” bar, you will see the “Final Cut Pro” menu. The menu has several formats for choosing as the best output format. You’d better choose Apple ProRes 422(HQ)(*.mov) to keep the original video qaulity.

• Settings – Click the “Settings” icon and you will go into a new interface named “Profile Settings”. If your source file is 1080p, you’d better keep the video frame rate as 30fps, video size as 1920*1080 and keep 5.1 channels to keep the best quality for editing Sony NEX-6 AVCHD MTS videos in Final Cut Pro 6/7 or Final Cut Pro X. Pay attention, if your original recordings are 1080 50p, then you should choose 25fps as the frame rate.

3. Convert Sony NEX-6 AVCHD 1080p MTS videos to MOV

Hit the “Convert” button; it will convert Sony NEX-6 AVCHD MTS to ProRes 422(HQ) MOV on Mac immediately. You can find the process in the “Conversion” interface.

As soon as the Sony NEX-6 AVCHD to MOV conversion process is 100% completed, please click “Open” to find the converted video.

4. Transfer AVCHD MTS files to Final Cut Pro 6/7/X

Launch Final Cut Pro 7/FCP 6/FCP X, choose File > Import > Files…, and browse to where you save the converted AVCHD clips to. Choose the videos that you’d like to add. Now you can read How to import the converted AVCHD to Final Cut Pro 6/7/X for smoothly editing without any issue for get more information.

Tips for Sony AVCHD Converter for Mac Useage:

1. If the supposed size of the input files is 1GB, then the memory space should be up to 40GB.

2. Auto shutdown: Click Option and tick the box “Shut down the computer after conversion” before conversion starts.

3. Plus, if you attempt to burn your Sony NEX-6 AVCHD files to a blank DVD, a DVD folder, or an ISO image file on your Macintosh computer, Pavtube DVD Creator for Mac is a good choice. This Mac DVD burner comes with an absolutelyFree Version at during 2012 Thanksgiving Promotion. See how tofree burn AVCHD (.mts) to a playable DVD on Mac and how to free Burn AVI, MKV, MP4 to DVD on Mac.

4. If you intend to edit Sony NEX-6 AVCHD files with iMovie 8/9/11 or Final Cut Express 4, only need to change the step 2, you should choose “Apple InterMediate Codec (AIC) (*.mov)” as output format from “iMovie and Final Cut Express” catalogue.

• a. After the completion of all steps, start up iMovie, choose File > Import > Movies…, and navigate to the source folder to import files.

• b. Open up Final Cut Express, follow File > Import > Files… to browse and load the files you need to edit.