Import AVCHD videos with LR3

Hello. I would like import AVCHD videos (with m2ts extension) with LR3 but I don´t know how to do it. Please, could you help me?
Thank you very much.

Lee Jay wrote:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/2879442#2879442
Glad you pointed to that thread; the message was proven repeatedly to be erroneous and misleading. Windows natively supports AVCHD (e.g., Windows Media Player, Windows Media Center). All new consumer and most new professional HD video capture devices (including all forthcoming Nikon D-SLRs) use AVCHD rather than, say, the .MOV format that you do support which actually is NOT supported natively in Windows and requires a QuickTime install.
Again, it is a trivial task to have Lightroom recognize/catalog/playback AVCHD files. About an hour's work programming-wise to incorporate AVCHD capability into Lightroom's shell (and Adobe can simply let pre-Windows 7 users know that they'll get AVCHD support when they upgrade to Windows 7).

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