"I have a Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX77 camcorder and a just bought a Macbook Air. I am trying to transfer recorded video to iMovie'11 but can't get it to work. The user manual is useless as it only addresses the transfer of files to a PC. What do I need to do in order to transfer these recordings?"
iMovie'11 introduces some new tools that make it easy for just about anyone to take advantage of expert-level effects that would have been difficult or impossible for novices to achieve before. It is designed to work with a wide range of video recording devices, including camcorders, digital still cameras, iPhone 4, iPod nano (5th generation), and iPod touch (4th generation).
Of course, iMovie'11 still works well with most Mini DV tape-based camcorders using DV and HDV formats, which use a FireWire cable to transfer video. However, video from Panasonic camera, like AVCHD, MTS, M2TS, MOD, may can not be natively accepted by iMovie 11.
To solve this solution, MTS converter Mac has upgrade as Panasonic MTS to iMovie converter which supports convert Panasonic AVCHD, MTS, M2TS, MOD files to MOV, DV, MPEG-2, MP4, FLV, WMV, AVI, 3GP etc to iMovie 08/09/11 on new MacBook Air and other MacBook on Mac Lion(10.5-10.7).
Tips:
Apple released the updated MacBook Air machines on On July 20 to coincide with the launch of Mac OS X Lion, in addition to Thunderbolt-compatible Mac minis and updated Cinema Displays.
They now use special, low-power versions of the Intel Core i5 and i7 processors and feature the high-speed Thunderbolt connection. Apple claims the new MacBook Air has "up to twice the performance of the previous generation." The new Air's backlit keyboard, which was previously only available on the MacBook Pro range.
Tips: if you are Windows user, please go to MTS Video Converter
Panasonic MOD camcorders: SDR-S50, SDR-T50P, SDR-T55P, SDR-H85P, SDR-S26, SDR-SW21, SDR-SW20, SDR-S7, SDR-H20, SDR-S10, SDR-S150, SDR-S100, SV-AV100 etc.
Panasonic AVCHD(mts/m2ts)/AVCHD Lite camcorders:
LumixDMCFX77-78/TS3/FZ47/48/G3/GF3/ZS10/TZ20/GH2/GF2/ZS7/TZ10/G2/GH1/ZS3/TZ7/TS1/FT1,AG-AC16/HMC70/AF100/AF101/AF102/HMC40,HDC-SD60/TM60/HS60/TM700/SD700/HS700, HDC-TM350/TM30/TM10/HS300/HS200/TM300/SD300/SD200/SD100/HS100, HDC-SD9/HS9/SD5/SX5/SD7 etc.
1: Install and run Panasonic MTS Converter Mac for importing the Panasonic MTS etc videos
2: Click "Drop Down List of Profile", then the format-choose button will be shown after the files. Click iMovie-MP4 or MOV etc.
3: Click the start button to start converting MTS to MP4, Then import converted Panasonic MTS files to iMovie 11 on MacBook Air for editing.