After connecting your camcorder and choosing our camcorder in the Finder window, you expect that the MTS/M2TS can be imported into FCE. However, an error message that says AVCHD includes unsupported media or has an invalid directory structure, and please selects a folder whose directory structure matched supported media pops up.
The possible reason is that your system has not installed some necessary codec needed to recognize MTS/M2TS so that it can import MTS or M2TS to FCE. In that situation, you can turn to a third party-Moyea MTS/M2TS Converter for Mac for help. This AVCHD Converter for Mac itself carries a large range of codec pack that can satisfy various project needs. It can easily convert MTS/M2TS to FCE workable formats (DV, MPEG-4, MOV, etc) and even other popular video and audio formats for iPod, iPhone, PSP, PS3, Zune, Apple TV, QuickTime, etc.
I guess the greatest concern of you is the quality loss, and several tests showed that this Mac MTS/M2TS Converter can convert MTS/M2TS to other video format without quality loss. In addition, this Mac MTS/M2TS Converter allows users to tune the video resolution, bit rate, frame rate and you can also keep the highest settings as you can to get the most satisfying conversion result.
The following party will show you the simplified guide on converting MTS or M2TS to Final Cut Express.
Step 1: Click the “Add” button to load the MTS or M2TS files into this AVCHD converter program. Or you can directly drag them to it.
Step 2: Set output format from the drop-down list “Format” as Final Cut Express compatible format like DV, MPEG-4, MOV, etc. and then specify the output destination for saving the converted files from the “Browse”. Otherwise, the output files will be saved in the default path automatically.
Step 3: Click the “Convert” button to start converting MTS/M2TS to FCE.
Once the whole video conversion is done, you can get the converted video files. Actually this Mac MTS/M2TS Converter also supports batch video conversion so that to save user’s time and energy.
Step 4: Launch Final Cut Express, click on “File” ] Import files to import the converted video files to it. Then you can preview them from the screen on the right as well as edit them with FCE.
See, it is easy, isn’t it? Hopefully this article will bring help to you.