HT5409 clips on sony ax2000 mount as quicktime with avchd file that cannot be opened - Help!

I have tried iskysoft medie converter and aiseesoft AVCHD converter for Mac -- they cannot read the AVCHD file. I cannot get either program to load the file. I have conntected the camera to the mac with USB and dowloaded the file, but then it cannot be opened in ANY program. Smaller files have opened in Quicktime, but these have many multiple clips. Anyone know how to convert these?

Yes, you have missed a few things... as mentioned, what camera, what 'options', such as 24p, 60i, whatever... how you have output the results, etc...
I personally can not 'play' AVCHD on my aging laptop, my 'workhorse'. I always have to resize down to something less than 1080x1920 to 'play' smoothly on it.
Also, H.264, has a number of 'options', such as maximum bit rate, which does impact the visual quality on playback... anything less than 20-30 Mbits/sec is too low... (which of course leads into whether your machine can play it or not...). In addition, where you store your output also impacts playability, USB driver are notoriously slow, and often a clip will play off the main harddrive, but hiccups off of a USB...
So, yeah, you have missed a few items, and probably more...

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