The Panasonic HDC-SD700 is a Full HD camcorder that records AVCHD video to removable flash memory cards. The SD700's high-sensitivity 3MOS system has achieved 11.49 million effective motion image pixels (3.83 megapixels x 3). This new image sensor offers beautiful images with significantly better colour quality, detail and gradation than the 1MOS sensor system. New 1080/50p recording (Full-HD, 1920 x 1080, 50 progressive recording) produces the ultimate beauty in image quality, exceeding even conventional Full-HD images.

The HDC-SD700 HD camera stores videos in .mts format with MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 compression. However, you can not import the 1080p 50fps footage with Final Cut Studio. This is because it is not part of the AVCHD spec. It's a special format that only this camera (at the present time) can shoot. You need this Mac AVCHD Video Editor to help you edit MTS video files from Panasonic HDC-SD700.

And here is detailed guide to edit MTS/M2TS video files:



Step 1. Import Panasonic HDC-SD700 AVCHD MTS video files into video editor for Mac
After launch the AVCHD Video Editor for Mac, just click the "Add File" button to import videos you want to edit. At the right side, it will pop up a window to show you the added videos.

Step 2. Trim Video
Choose one of them, and click the "Play" button, it will show you two preview window, the left one for the source file, the right for the output file. At the below of the playback progress bar, there are two sliders, you can drag the first one to the point where you want to set start time, and the second to the point where to set end time. The duration of sliders is what you want.

Step 3. Crop Video
On the left preview window, you will see a green frame. You can drag its siders to define the cropping areas, or input the number to the "Crop" area.

Stet 4. Video Effecting
If you are not satisfactory with your video, you can drag the sliders to change video brightness, contrast and saturation in the "Effect" area.

Step 5. Do Video Setting
Click "Settings" button to get Video resolution, frame rate, encoder, bitrate and audio sample rate, channel, encoder and bitrate.

Step 6. Merge Video and Flip Video
If you want to merge all videos you have added into one, just check the "Merge into one file" option at the below of "Effect" area. And you can click the flipping video buttons below the preview window to separate rotate video horizontally or vertically.

Step 7. Save Video
Click the "Save" button on the below of the interface to save videos you have edited. Besides, you can choose any audio/video formats for output files. It supports output video formats like 3GP, 3G2, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, FLV, SWF, MKV, DV, RMVB/RM, AVI, DIVX, WMV, M4V, MOV, AMV, MTV, SMV, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, MOV, WMV, AVI and audio formats including MP3, WMA, AAC, WAV, RA, M4A, AC3, MP2, AMR, MKA, AIFF, FLAC.