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The Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX75 is a powerful compact digicam featuring a 3.0-inch intelligent touchscreen LCD, capturing videos in 720p HD with a separate video recording button that keeps the camera always ready to record. With Lumix DMC-FX75 you are allowed to shoot kids videos in an AVCHD Lite model, and would like to upload the AVCHD Lite files to your PC, and put it into video editing programs like Avid Media Composer, Adobe Premiere, Sony Vegas, Pinnacle Studio for editing. However, most video editing programs does not recognize the AVCHD Lite video footage, and that’s why we need to convert MTS to editable formats before editing. In order to play and edit the AVCHD Lite video files generated by the Panasonic Lumix cameras smoothly and more freely, you have to convert AVCHD to editing program friendly formats, like WMV (for Adobe Premiere and Sony Vegas), MOV (for Avid Media Composer), AVI (for Pinnacle Studio), etc.

Fortunately, the following article introduced a powerful Panasonic AVCHD Lite MTS Converter for transcoding AVCHD Lite MTS to MOV, WMV, AVI files for video editing, and here we take Avid Media Composer for an example

1. Install and run Pavtube MTS/M2TS Converter ($29)

2. Drag and drop the Panasonic AVCHD .mts files to the MTS/M2TS Converter.

3. Select a proper format from the drop-down list of “Format” bar. To make Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX75 AVCHD Lite MTS footage be compatible with Avid, you’re advised to select “Avid Studio > Avid DNxHD 1080p(*.mov)” format.

Tip 1: For Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX75 AVCHD to Adobe Premiere and Sony Vegas, you are suggested to select “WMV (VC-1) (*.wmv)” or “MPEG-2 (*.mpg)” under “Adobe Premiere/Sony Vegas” catalog.

Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX75 AVCHD Lite to Pinnacle, you are suggested to select “AVI HD Video(*.avi)” under “HD Video” catalog.

Tip 2: You can also click “Settings” next to Format to fix the frame rate, bitrate and video quality to your needs.

4. Click “Convert” to start encoding Panasonic FX75 AVCHD Lite MTS to Windows PC editable format.

When conversion completes you can find converted video by clicking “Open” button. After being converted to video editing program compatible format the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX75 AVCHD AVCHD footage can be imported to Avid Media Composer, Adobe Premiere, Sony Vegas, and Pinnacle instantly.

Another program Pavtube iMedia Converter for Mac can do the same job, and you can on sale with 40% off, it can also deal with you blu-ray, DVD and HD Videos. just have a try!

Learn More Guides as below:

Import/edit Panasonic 1080 60P AVCHD into FCP
Import Panasonic AVCHD/AVCHD Lite to iMovie/FCE
Convert MTS to AVI format for editing and playing
Convert AVCHD Lite MTS/M2TS to MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4
Upload Panasonic AVCHD Footage to YouTube
Sony PJ380 MTS to Premiere workflow
Import Sony FS100 to FCP
Transcode Sony Cyber-shot AVCHD on Windows and Mac

Source: Convert Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS7 AVCHD Lite MTS to AVI/WMV/MPEG-2/MOV for editing

Tricks for Smoothly Importing/Editing Canon C300 MXF files in Sony Vegas

The Canon C300 might just be that machine many pro videographers have been waiting for the next big thing—a dedicated video camera with a large sensor, interchangeable lenses, and no compromises. It can help us recorded Full HD 1080p files in MXF format. MXF is created specifically for HD digital camcorders which is often used in Sony, Panasonic, and Canon high-end cameras and camcorders. After the first shoot, I was impressed by the camera but was extremely keen to see what the footage looked like on the editing station.

Generally, there are an increasing number of professional video editing tools that can work with MXF files natively including Avid, Adobe Premiere Pro 3.1 or above, and Sony Vegas. However, this format is relatively new, many video editors are lacking of native support to it, or are only just starting to add support for this file type. As far as I know, many folks find it is not convenient for them to import MXF footages from Canon C300 to Sony Vegas for editing. In fact, Sony Vegas announces that it can work with MXF on its official site, but some users still have troubles when transferring C300 MXF files to Sony Vegas. Ok, now let’s take Canon C300 to have a test. continue reading…