Since Nov. 2007, Final Cut Express 4 has added plug-and-play supports to AVCHD format. However, because of its not cheap cost, some Mac users have not upgraded to the newest FCE 4, but still in use of the former version. As the popularity of AVCHD camcorders, more and more people have become owners of such a kind of camcorder, at the same time, the problem emerged that the old version FCE can not recognize MTS and M2TS files shot by AVCHD camcorder. What is the affordable and effective way to solve this issue? You may ask, and my answer will be “Pavtube MTS/M2TS Converter for Mac” without doubt. Because it can convert MTS and M2TS AVCHD files to Final Cur Express workable format without any audio and video out of sync issues. Following is its detailed user guide, if you are in such a condition, you can read on it freely.
1. Add MTS and M2TS AVCHD files to this program
Once launched this program, the following friendly blue-sky interface will pop up, on which you can click “Add” button to load MTS and M2TS files.
2. Select FCE compatible format as output format and set save path
Click the drop-down list of “Format” to select FCE compatible format as output format, here I choose MOV for example. Click “Browse” button to specify where to store the output files. Moreover, if you have the need of joining multiple MTS and M2TS to be as a single file, you are able to achieve this goal via ticking the checkbox “Merge into one file”.
3. Set advanced settings
Click “Settings” button, then you will see the following interface, on which you are allowed to adjust audio and video parameters like codec name, bit rate, aspect ratio, frame rate, and audio channel. In principle, the larger input values, the larger file size, but accompanying with the better file quality; the smaller input value, the smaller file size, but in accordance with the more inferior file quality. That is to say, if you want to do advance settings, you’d better make a balance between the file size and file quality.
4. Start converting MTS and M2TS files to FCE format
Once all the above settings are finished, you can click “Convert” button to start converting MTS and M2TS AVCHD files into FCE supported format. The interface below will present you clearly about conversion progress, time elapse, left time, generated file size, and estimated file size. After conversion is done, you can easily find out the output files for FCE via clicking “Open” button.
Well, finished, what you should do next is just adding the output files generated from MTS and M2TS AVCHD files to Final Cut Express for editing.
