IMovie Cannot Import MTS or MT2S From Any Hard Drive

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Nobody else has replied so I'll add my two cents. I just bought a Panasonic FZ150 which will save video in AVCHD/mts or mp4. My first videos were saved in AVCHD because I didn't know any better. I have iMovie '11 (9.0.4) with which I am slowly coming to grips. After searching for several days and trying every conceivable parameter in ffmpegX, I tried Handbrake and it converts and scales just peachy. Then I noticed that iMovie was asking to import my mts files. After tinkering with it a little bit, I let it import them (not archive them because you will get a copy of the whole SD card and anything on it). It imports them and converts them to mov files quite nicely into an event or project of your choosing.
I also have iMovie HD and FC Express but have not tried to import mts into them.
Bottom line: Try Handbrake to convert mts if you don't have iMovie 11. Or let iMovie 11 do it for you if that's what you have.
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