Is there an OS X application that will let me import AVCHD files from a Hitachi HD camcorder?
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For iMovie 08, start the application and then connect your camera and iMovie will detect it.
If your camera is not recognized as a camera for some reason but is recognized as a mass storage device, you can drag your files from the camera to the Mac and import from there, but you must create a disk image (using Disk Utility) and drag all of your camera files to the disk image. Now mount the disk image and it will be recognized as a camera.
iMovie will convert the AVCHD into Apple Intermediate Codec for editing.
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Editing
The following video-editing software features support for the AVCHD format:
Adobe Premiere Pro (from version CS4 onward; not the trial version)
Adobe Premiere Elements (from version 7 onward)
Apple's Final Cut Express 4, Final Cut 6.0.1, and iMovie '08 (Bundled with all new macs) do not support editing of AVCHD clips directly. Imported AVCHD clips are auto-converted into the Apple Intermediate Codec format, (MAC OSX 10.5 or greater).[20]
ArcSoft's TotalMedia Extreme
Avid Xpress Pro, Avid Media Composer
Corel's Ulead DVD MovieFactory 6
CyberLink's PowerDirector 6
Grass Valley's Edius 5.0
Nero 7 Ultra Edition Enhanced and Nero 8 Ultra Edition are software suites which contains the AVCHD editor, found in Nero Vision. Also included in this suite is Nero Showtime, which plays AVCHD files natively. Edited video can also be burned to DVD discs in AVCHD format for playback on hardware players or in Blu-ray format.
Pinnacle's Studio Plus 11 & 12, now even better with 12.1
Sony Vegas 7.0e
Vegas Pro 8
Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 8
Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 9
TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress.
Kdenlive for Linux/BSD platforms
Other developers have pledged their support but it may still take some time for the implementation.
PowerDVD Ultra comes with an AVCHD codec that can be used with AVISynth and VirtualDubMod
FFDshow is a free, Open Source collection of codecs, including AVCHD.[18] To
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iMovie HD probably lets you do it. I know that Final Cut Pro let's you.
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Thanks for this. Is there any quality loss when it's transcoded to the Apple Intermediate Codec?
I cannot say that it is technically loss-less, but this is standard practice with AVCHD. I have a core 2 quad box, liquid cooled, 4GB DDR3, overclocked to 3.5GHz and editing video is a chore without creating intermediary files.
Did it work? I guess my point below is that I am SURPRISED that AVCHD is in the marketplace at this point when the computer hardware hasn't caught up and these cameras are being marketed as easier to use than MiniDV and perfect for grandma. Yeah, after hours of research, and then some... and then some... converting them to TRUE 24P is also an incredible challenge. AVCHD conversion also KILLS your HDD space. You'll see.