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Make Sony NEX-6 MTS/M2TS files editable in Avid Media Composer on Mac

Sony NEX-6 comes with 16.1MP APS-C sensor, up to 10 fps shooting, fast Hybrid AF with phase detection, XGA OLED electronic viewfinder, built-in Wi-Fi, Quick Navi controls, E-mount 16-50mm lens and AVCHD 1080 60p/60i/24p HD movies stunning features, which is one of the good choice for the photographers.

As other AVCHD cameras, the NEX-6 utilizes the AVCHD codec, the industry standard for high quality HD video capture that bring users Full HD 1920x1080 video in a variety of frame rates from 60p for super smooth action to 24p for a more cinematic feel. While, the users are troubled in transferring 60p AVCHD files to Avid Media Composer generated from NEX-6. The Avid MC seems cannot ingest the 60p AVCHD files natively.

Well, Avid doesn't do 1080p60. In fact, very few NLE's do. Although Avid MC has added some plug-ins, actually background converters for AVCHD editors to solve the incompatibility problem, the importing process are unbelievably slow. Here you’d better apply this a professional tool Mac AVCHD to DNxHD Converter to transcode Sony NEX-6 AVCHD to Avid Media Composer favorable format on Mac.

(Note: Click here for OS X 10.5)

Guide: Make Sony NEX-6 MTS/M2TS files editable in Avid Media Composer on Mac

Step 1: Download and install the Mac MTS/M2TS Converter on your Mac; Launch it to import the NEX-6 MTS/M2TS files for transcoding.

Step 2: Select Avid Media Composer > Avid DNxHD(*.mov) as output format via hitting the Format bar.

Step 3: You’d better click Settings to set video size to 1920*1080, frame rate to 30fps for easy editing.

Step 4: Join several MTS/M2TS files together via checking the “Merge into one” box. Then, click the Convert button to start to convert Sony NEX-6 MTS to DNxHD .mov for Avid Media Composer on Mac.

When the conversion ends, you can import Sony NEX-6 60p footage to Avid MC after you locate the output DNxHD .mov video.

Tip:
To learn more about this Mac AVCHD Converter, you can link to Brorsoft MTS/M2TS Converter for Mac.