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Back in December I purchased a new video camera–the High Definition Canon Vixia HF100 . Naturally, I did a lot of research before purchasing it as I wasn’t very familiar with the AVCHD format–a high definition H.264 codec that is very efficient and is able to store a lot of video data using a minimal amount of memory. The codec does this by only recording changes in the images rather than full frames. I don’t know the intricate details of the technology, however, it is quite impressive how good the quality
Simply put, the catch is that there are no applications available currently that can edit the AVCHD format natively on the Mac. The Canon camera, and other AVCHD cameras like it, create files that use the .mts file extension. Again, I’m not familiar with all of the technical details, however, I do know the only way to work with the files on the Macintosh is to convert them to some other format. iMovie 08/09 both handle the AVCHD format by importing the .mts files and converting them to the Apple Intermediat