AVCHD Easy Setups

Using FCE 4.0.1. Which FCE AVCHD Easy Setups should one use to import footage from a Canon Vixia HF S20? Hoping the right setup will limit the amount of rendering I need to do after dropping clips onto the timeline. Using a MBP 2011 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo w/4gb of ram.

I took mts footage off my Canon Vixia HF S20 that can't be captured by FCE and converted it using "Wondershare" to mov.
The HF S20 is an AVCHD camcorder.  Why are you converting .mts files instead of using FCE's Log & Transfer function to copy the clips directly from the camcorder?
The problem that I'm having is after dropping it into the timeline for editing the rendering line keeps going red after different complete rendering sessions.
This usually indicates that the clip properties do not match your sequence settings.  Did you convert the .mts files to QuickTime/Apple Intermediate Codec?  Did you select an Easy Setup that matches how you shot the video (eg 1920x1080i60, etc).

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