Comments on: Viewing AVCHD on a Mac

By: Ken Woo

Ken Woo — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:33:46 +0000

I was able to import and playback AVCHD shot on Panasonic GH-1 by importing into iMovie ‘09 directly from the camera. Looks and sounds great.

By: basshead

basshead — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 07:35:38 +0000

I don’t think dragging the AVCHD folder to your desktop works, in my experience iMovie does not recognise the folder and will not import. The method I have found most reliable is to create a disk image of the memory card using Disk Utility. This can then be mounted at a latter time and iMovie treats it the same as plugging in a HD video camera or memory card and imports the video.
As for your Toast 10 problem, it worked fine for me so may be related to your hardware. Try the latest version of VLC that was recommended in the first reply.

By: enzofsilva

enzofsilva — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 02:49:19 +0000

Hi, the Toast player on Toast 10 isn’t playing my .mts videos that smoothly, skipping and no sound… just a few milliseconds of video is really in motion…

what could be wrong?

I simply copied the AVCHD folder (with all its subfolders) from the Canon HF11 mounted drive to my desktop.

Also, is the method above a form of backup? Meaning, will I be able to import those videos onto iMovie later on? I have been having problems with iMovie crashing when the camera is plugged and haven’t been able to import any of the clips to iMovie successfully (crashed before I even have a chance to start importing). So, I will return the camera, BUT I want to make sure my footage is safe just by copying the AVCHD folder (and its subdirectories) from the mounted “CANON” drive to my desktop.

It is footage of my daughter’s first month and I cannot afford losing it…

Please advise on both the backing up question and the playing smoothly on Toast 10 video player.

Thanks

By: yakov hadash

yakov hadash — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 08:47:51 +0000

update to this post should say – VLC now plays MTS