How to Make Apple Aperture support AVCHD Lite videos?

Panasonic DMC-ZS10 is the compact camera with HD video recording. The recording mode could be GFS and FSH modes for 1920x1080 AVCHD files, GS and SH modes for 1280x720p AVCHD Lite or Motion JPEG.

Apple Aperture was released as a photo management system for creating slideshow, enhance photo on Mac. Aperture 3 is becoming more of a hybrid Digital Asset Management (DAM) solution with the support of HD video from digital SLR cameras and compact cameras. However, it does not support the videos recorded in MPEG H.264/AVCHD as AVCHD or AVCHD Lite format.

If you would like to manage videos together with the photos, or create multimedia slideshow with AVHCD Lite in Aperture 3, it could be done easily with Aunsoft Final Mate for Mac. Aunsoft Final Mate for Mac can help you handle 1080i/1080p AVCHD files and 720p AVCHD Lite footage in Aperture.

Below is the step-by-step guide for you to make Apple Aperture support Lumix ZS10 AVCHD Lite files and AVCHD files for multimedia slideshow.

Step 1. Import Panasonic AVCHD footage to Aunsoft Final Mate for Mac.
Run Aunsoft Final Mate for Mac as 720p AVCHD Lite to Apple Aperture converter, and you can capture videos from camcorder or import videos from Mac computer. To capture videos from camcorder, just connect your HDcam to iMac via USB cable and follow the camcorder wizard. To load videos from computer folder, just click the Resource tab, click the Add Path button and browse the folder with .mts or .m2ts file.

Step 2. Add AVCHD MTS/M2TS files to timeline.
Click the drop-down button of the “Create a New Movie” button, choose “For Conversion”. Then drag and drop the files from camcorder tab or resource tab to the new movie ID to join the AVCHD clips with one file output. You can create another movie if you would like to have more files as output.

Step 3. Export Lumix AVCHD Lite to Apple Aperture 3 on Mac.
Click the “Export” button, and go to the “Export into Editor” button. Choose Apple Aperture > Apple Aperture MOV(*.mov) as output format. Click the OK button, and the Lumix AVCHD Lite to Aperture converter will start conversion.

When the conversion process is done, you can import Panasonic ZS10 videos to Apple Aperture for creating multimedia slideshow.

Tips:
1. If you are using other cameras with AVCHD Lite like Lumix FZ100, FZ45/FZ40, TZ20, ZS8/TZ18, you can also use Aunsoft Final Mate for Mac to make Apple Aperture support AVCHD Lite camera videos, or join the AVCHD Lite videos for VLC, Dune player without re-encoding.

2. If you would like to backup your DVD/Blu-ray disc movies, TiVo videos on Mac, Aunsoft iMedia Converter for Mac will be the first choice for you.

EOS Converter-Transcode Canon DSLR 550D Video to ProRes 422 in Full HD 1080p for FCP editing
Canon EOS Digital Rebel T2i / 550D recorded videos are saved in H.264 for image and linear PCM for audio. You can choose different recording modes like full HD 1920×1080p at 30/25/24 fps, HD/SD 1280×720p/640×480 at 60/50 fps. Even though the videos are saved in .mov format, you may also face problem importing the video to Final Cut Pro. So you need a Mac Canon EOS Video Converter for converting and importing 550D1080p MOV for Final Cut Pro without rendering. Aunsoft Video Converter for Mac is the recommended Mac Canon EOS Converter for you to edit Digital Rebel T2i / 550D videos.

Below is the quick guide for those who have a hard time editing Canon EOS Digital Rebel T2i / 550D H.264 MOV files to ProRes 422 at 30fps in Final Cut Pro 6 or 7.
Step 1. Download Canon 550D MOV files to Aunsoft Video Converter for Mac.
Run Aunsoft Video Converter for Mac as the best Canon EOS Rebel T2i H.264 MOV to ProRes MOV converter on Mac OS X. Click the “Add” button to import .mov files from the camera.
Step 2. Choose MOV format with ProRes 422.
Click the “Format” option, and navigate to Final Cut Pro > Apple ProRes 422 (*.mov) as output format. The Mac Digital SLR camera video converter will convert H.264 mov to prores 422 mov.

You may notice that there are also other options like Apple ProRes 4444, Apple ProRes 422 (HQ), Apple ProRes 422 (LT), Apple ProRes 422 (Proxy), DVCPRO HD 1920*1080 30fps etc.
Step 3. Choose 1080p size with 30fps.
Click the “Settings” button and choose 1920*1080 from the video size drop-down box to keep the original HD resolution and 16:9 aspect ratio. Click the drop-down box for frame rate, and you can choose 30fps.

Step 4. Convert DSLR video to ProRes 422 HQ MOV for FCP.
Click the convert button under the preview window, the Mac Canon 550D DSLR video converter will start converting DSLR video to ProRes 422 in full HD 1080p for FCP editing.
After the conversion, you can import ProRes mov to Final Cut Pro without rendering.Hope you enjoy the optimal way to convert Canon H.264 mov to ProRes 422 for FCP 7 and 6, so that you can edit the H.264 files easily.