Capturing video from camera to final cut

I have a camera currently (canon hg20) that captures files that are .mts. I've always used imovie to capture my files and convert them to .mov but imovie only allows you to capture two sizes, one which is too small and the other is too big. I would like to capture my video to a 1280x720 resolution and edit that in final cut. Is there anyway to capture .mts files in final cut or some other program that i can convert them to .mov at my desired resolution
Thanks,
Bryan

You're shooting in an interlaced format. The video is not deinterlaced on ingest. (iMovie throws away one field to simplify processing.) If you're going to DVD, which I assume you're doing if you're going to Toast, then you're going to a format designed specifically for display on a television set, which is an interlaced display.
If you want your video for display on a computer, you need to deinterlace at some point. You cannot and should not do it on ingest. It should be done in the compression stage. Toast should be able to do this. Perhaps there's a Toast forum or Toast support where you can find out about this.
If you want to use Compressor you can deinterlace in that software.

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https://discussions.apple.com/community/professional_applications/other_pro_audi o
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High Definition
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4.3 W
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NTSC
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MPEG2
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1/2.7-inch CMOS, RGB Primary Color Filter
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LCD Screen
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Forget USB for capturing from tape. USB is only for stills from a Tape Based camera.
You require a firewire cable.
The camera connection end will be four pin and the Mac is nine pin to the 800 port.
Ask for a 9 to 4 pin firewire cable. Sounds like you have the wrong one as they can also be 4 to 4 or 4 to 6 pin!!
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