If you have shot hours of footage on a Sony HD recording camera or JVC Everio, things might be not so easy for you to get the MTS files read in FCP or iMovie, even though on paper it should. I believe most of you would like to do sort of edit work and make the MTS footage into short film, just like me. So, is there any way to transfer the MTS footage into FCP recognizing file? Here I would recommend you Pavtube MTS/ M2TS Converter for Mac, which will convert MTS to MOV and other QuickTime container formats that are accepted by Final Cut Pro. The app works well on Mac OS X and handles TS, TP, M2TS, M2T format as well. The following guide tells you how to convert MTS file to MOV format for edit in FCP step by step.

Step 1. Load MTS file.
Copy your MTS footages to Mac, and install MTS/ M2TS Converter for Mac. You may download its trial version via this link. There is no restriction for trial version. Just try it out. Run MTS/ M2TS Converter and click on “Add” to import source files, browse to the drive and click “Choose”. You do not have to open the any of the folders. In preview window you could view the video and take snapshots. When the box of Merge into one is checked, all selected videos will be combined together as one output file after conversion.

(Tip: you can click “Edit” button to perform edit functions such as crop, trim, flip, effect, watermark and audio replace. To eliminate interlacing effect, simply check Deinterlacing box under Effect tab.)

Step 2: Set Output format.
Click on “Format” bar when you’d like to specify an output format. MOV can be found in common video, HD Video, and FCP/ Sony Vegas groups. Click “Settings” if you want to further customize video and audio parameters such as video codec, audio codec, frame rate, bit rate, video size, audio channels etc. Do not forget to click on “OK” to confirm your settings. In Export to box you could specify destination for the converted file.

Step 3: Start converting.
Click on “Convert” button to start Conversion. The converter will generate MOV file with admirable video quality. After conversion you can edit the AVCHD footage in FCP freely.

Learn more: http://www.pavtube.com/mts-converter-mac