The Lumix DMC-FZ200 is Panasonic's latest digital compact camera to offer an f/2.8 aperture across the full range of its zoom. Full HD 1080 60p video recording in AVCHD or MP4 formats offers high quality video capture and High Speed Video enables the recording of fast-moving subjects at 120fps (frames per second) and 240 fps.

If you want to use something to edit your videos, most modern Windows video editing suites can work with the AVCHD files produced by the FZ200. However, some of them may not support the AVCHD Progressive format, so check with your software manufacturer first. Mac users can edit 1080/60p videos without issue using the latest versions of Final Cut Pro X or iMovie '11. While, if you have the old version iMovie 09/10, or both AVCHD and MP4 formatted movies are recorded by your Lumix FZ200, the AVCHD movies may not be recognized. Well, how to upload Panasonic Lumix FZ200 AVCHD to Mac for iMovie without any trouble? That’s the solution we worked out.

If both AVCHD and MP4 formatted movies are recorded, import all the MP4 movies from FZ200 to the computer and then delete them from the camera. Afterwards, disconnect and reconnect the USB cable so the AVCHD movies can be recognized. For iMoive 09/10 users, you’d better transcode the 1080 60p AVCHD files to iMovie natively support format AIC .mov. The top Lumix FZ200 AVCHD Converter for Mac is the most professional converting tool in transcoding AVCHD MTS/M2TS video from Lumix FZ200 to AIC MOV with lossless quality at fast speed.

Step 1: Launch the best MTS/M2TS Converter for Mac and load the 1080 60p MTS files to the program. This Mac AVCHD converter also works as the MTS/M2TS joiner with “Merge into one” feature.

Step 2: Choose iMovie and Final Cut Express > > Apple InterMediate Codec (*.mov) as output format by clicking the format bar for transcoding Panasonic Lumix MTS to AIC on Mac.

Step 3: Click the “Settings” icon to make the best settings for editing Panasonic DMC-FZ200 MTS in iMovie on Mac. You can set the video frame rate as 30fps, video size as 1920*1080 to keep the best output quality

Step 4: Click convert button to start converting Panasonic Lumix FZ200 AVCHD to iMovie with AIC MOV format on Mac OS X.

When the AVCHD to iMovie conversion is 100% completed, open iMovie and click File > Import to transfer Panasonic Lumix FZ200 video to iMovie . Just enjoy your easy editing.

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