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Handle 1080/50p clips on Mac

Posted: 25 May 2011 07:20 PM PDT

When I started recording videos with Sony HDR-TG3 years ago, I notice that the processing of the HD quality videos is more complicated than that of the photos from the digital cameras. It demands the PC/Mac with high configuration. For that time, I stored the .mts files, which contain the video data in the AVCHD folder, to my external hard drive. When iMovie '8 starts to support AVCHD camcorder videos, it requires the Intel processor. The most frustrated point is that iMovie does not support the native .mts file.
This year, for the coming baby, we got Panasonic HDC-SD90, which includes more intelligent settings and present pretty good image in low-light condition. Panasonic SD90 is capable of recording 1080/50p videos at 28Mbps for high quality videos. With the optional 3D Conversion Lens (VW-CLT1) attached to the camcorder, the 3D content could be saved in AVCHD format.

To be frank, the experience of processing the 1080/50p AVCHD videos from Panasonic SD90 on Mac is quite painful, even on the new iMac with iMovie '9. iMovie does not read the 1080/50p videos. I find two applications for 1080/50p clips: ClipWrap and Aunsoft Final Mate for Mac. After testing the SD90 1080/50p footage on both applications, I figure out that both ClipWrap and Final Mate for Mac could export AIC for iMovie, and you can even get Apple ProRes if you want to edit in Final Cut. However, ClipWrap offers rewrap option without altering video sample and saves in .mov format. With the rewrap option, I could only get the audio no video. Not sure what is wrong. Aunsoft Final Mate for Mac does not offer rewrap option, but it provides output formats not included in ClipWrap, like Apple ProRes 4444, MP4, MKV.
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