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Have a friend who came back from Japan with a camera so new, its not yet available here. It's the Panasonic HDC-DX1-S, and it records HD on 3-inch discs.
He wants to be able to import the footage into iMovie, but I've had little luck. I am familiar with converting MPEG2 files from SD DVD camcorders into quicktimes that can be imported into iMovie, but I've never worked with an HD DVD camcorder like this. From what I've found, it burns discs in Blu-Ray format, not the HD DVD format supported by Apple.
A finalized disc does mount on my desktop, but DVD Player cannot play it. It has two folders at the root - AVCHDTN and BDMV. AVCHDTN contains only two files - thumbnail.tdt2 and thumbnail.tidx - so I don't believe it contains the video footage (the playback on the camcorder indicates 14 clips available for playback). BDMV has 4 folders, two of which are empty, and only one that has sufficient data - 1.29 GB - to account for the video files. It contains 40 files with an "m2ts" extension. I cannot copy these files to by desktop (error -50) or open them directly from the disk.
Although the packaging is all in Japanese, it does have a chart on the box that says it's compatible with "Mac OS X, Power PC 400 MHz <and up>". However, there is no software in the box, nor is there any available for download from Panasonic's web site, either in Japan or in the US.
Any ideas?

Been rattling around the net for a few weeks to try and come up with a solution. Firstly I can't get Mpeg Streamclip to convert anything, Fails everytime and .MTS isn't a recognised format, Also MP4 converter & Video Converter produce the same thing. I have the extra QT plug in. Didn't help.
Panasonic told me to just component lead the cam into a standard DVD recorder to archive the disks in Standard def.
However if you copy the file structure from the SD card and burn onto a DVD R, Using a mac or on a pc using the supplied software. The files stay in AVCHD format and can be read and veiwed using a Playstation 3, or the new Panasonic TV's have SD slots that can read the AVCHD files straight of the card, a bit pointless as this only bypasses connecting the camera to the TV.
So I'm still looking for a solution to edit or convert .MTS files, oh and does anyone know if a .MTS( panasonic) is the same as sony's .m2ts ??
For the time being I'm archiving footage as AVCHD on standard DVD's to be veiwed when I get around to buying a PS3.. Or will wait to get a new mac when they catch up...

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