Lumix GH1 and IMovie

Sorry for the basic question (been using macs since 84 and am spoiled)
Just bought a Panasonic Lumix GH1 and would simply like to watch the movies on my IMac. I am so used to just connecting and having things work that I am somewhat miffed that I seem unable to view my video at all.
Do I need to buy ILife 09 (have 08) to make it simple - or what other software.
What is an ".MTS" file and why wont IMovie deal with it in a straightforward fashion?
Yes I can spend 3 days sorting it all out - but then how can I pretend to the Dark side crowd that Macs are 'plug and play'.

Hi
You can watch the files directly in VLC or even better in Toast Player.
But to make them play nice with iMovie you will have to convert them into a more edit-friendly format that is less compressed. For this there are numerous discussions in the forums. As far as I know, iMovie will not let you import AVCHD directly from a MTS file, but will accept it if you plug in the sd card directly from the camera without changing anything in the file structure. Then iMovie recognises the films but will first need to transcode them to something much larger in file size before being able to play and edit them. Also the transcoding takes time.
So, if you have the GH1 for shooting video that you want to watch as soon as you shoot it, but also edit it on your mac, you may be in for some hassle. On the Windoze side there are a couple of options to edit AVCHD natively but they are such ******** applications for actually doing anything easily as only Sony can make.
Hope this helps (and is correct, as I don't own a GH1)
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