You have iMovie HD, iMovie’08 or iMovie’09 on your MacBook and get an Canon HF100 camcorder or other AVCHD camcorders to initiation shooting scenes of your kids in AVCHD, but to be disappointing, iMovie HD can’t help AVCHD files and if you edit them with iMovie’08 or iMovie’09, you will need a Mac with an Intel-based Core Duo processor or better.
iMovie is a video control software which lets Mac users to make home movies. iMovie HD, iMovie’08, iMovie’09 are three common iMovie versions. And AVCHD is a video formats for the recording and playback of high definition video. There are several brand AVCHD camcorders: Sony AVCHD camcorder, Canon AVCHD camcorder, Panasonic AVCHD camcorder, JVC AVCHD camcorder.
There is a multimedia utility, AVCHD to iMovie Converter, designed to help you import AVCHD files into iMovie. AVCHD to iMovie Converter can exchange AVCHD files to a format compatible with iMoive’09 and iMovie’08 on Power PC and iMovie HD:MPEG-4, MPEG-2, MOV or DV. Therefore, you can reach the purpose, no matter which iMovie version and whichever AVCHD camcorder you have.
Besides, AVCHD to iMovie Converter has a powerful control feature, which help you to customize your videos through trimming, cropping, merging videos and tuning video Brightness, Contrast and Saturation. And it is simple-to-use, suitable for both novice and professional mac users. All operation will be done with a few mouse clicks.
Step by Step Guide how to import AVCHD to iMovie on Mac from AVCHD camcorder.
Step1.Input AVCHD files to Video Converter for Mac
After install and launch Video Converter for Mac, glue your AVCHD camcorder to your Mac. Then hit “Add File” button on the top to select videos in your camcorder you want to exchange.
Step2.Set the output video formats
In the Profile list, select iMovie supportable video formats as the output video format, such as MPEG-4, MPEG-2, MOV or DV.
Step3. Trimming the source videos
Press “Trim” button to open the trim panel. And trim the video part by dragging the sliders under preview dialogue box to set the initiation and end time.
Step4. Initiation conversion
After all things are well done, hit “Exchange” to initiation conversion. After conversion, the output folder will open automatically, if you check “Open output folder when conversion finished”.
Start5. Import the output video into iMovie
Launch iMovie, and select “Import” from “File” menu. Then point out the converted videos you wish to import from your project library. Finally click “Open”.

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