Panasonic HDC-TM700 is one of the most popular camcorders in 2010. Famous with the 1080/60p recording mode (1080/50p for PAL camcorders), TM700 can help you record 5.1 Dolby Digital surround sound. You can quickly switch to 1080/60p or 1080/50p recording mode with one click on the camcorder. The AVCHD videos are save in 28Mbps with .mts or .m2ts as file extension.
The AVCHD-standard compliant 1080i recording mode (1080/60i for NTSC and 1080/50i for PAL) includes HA with 17Mbps, HG with 13Mbps, HX with 9Mbps, HE with 5Mbps. Besides the 1080/60i and 1080/60p AVCHD video recording mode in Panasonic HDC-TM700, do you know that TM700 camcorder also record 24p videos?
I only notice that TM700 also offers 24p mode called “Digital Cinema Mode” after taking a close look at the camcorder specifications. However, with the digital cinema mode I could not use the automatic settings, at least I do not find now. And the footage from digital cinema mode looks subpar.
To download 1080/60p Panasonic TM700 files to Mac and make the videos playable and editable on Mac, a third party tool is required to make the file Mac compatible. Aunsoft MTS/M2TS Converter for Mac with help you no mater you choose 1080/60p and 1080/60i 24p in TM700. Below is the quick guide for you.
1. Click the “Add” button to upload TM700 AVCHD videos from directory like AVCHD > BDMV > STREAM.
2. Click the “Format” option and choose output format according to your usage. For editing in FCE/iMovie, the Apple InterMediate Codec(AIC) from QuickTime Movie Format group. For FCP, just choose Final Cut Pro > Apple ProRes 422 as output.
3. To get 1920×1080 output with 60p, click the “Settings” button and choose 60 for frame rate, and 1920×1080 as video size.
4. Click the convert button to start converting TM700 AVCHD videos to Mac editing format.
Tips:
If you would like to play blu-ray movies and dvd movies on Mac, make a full disk copy for NAS, Aunsoft iMedia Converter for Mac will help you rip and decrypt the movies for personal entertainment.
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