Video cameras not uploading to Mac, can I change recording format?

Hi all,
I'm a film teacher at a secondary school where I started a few months ago. I have a classroom of desktop Macs (I don't know the specifics right now as I'm not in work) and a range of panasonic, sony and flipcams.
Recently I cannot read the files from the cameras on the desktop Macs or either of my Macbooks. All the cameras are saving to the .MTS format which I'm aware is not readable on Macs.
While I know I can convert these files myself, bring the cameras home and converting each one, then bringing them back to school and transferring them to the Macs would be a nightmare when I have 30 students making films.
I know from previous classes that these cameras used to upload to the Macs as I have seen the evidence. Is there a way to format the cameras so they will record in a different file extension? I can't believe the previous teacher used to convert every file, especially considering the Macs were bought for the sole purpose of editing.
Any help would be amazing as I'm starting to lose my mind!
Thanks,
Clare

I used to use the free "Media Converter" to convert .mts to .mov  when I was using iMovie 9.0.4 with Snow Leopard.  You can convert multiple clips at a time.  You can download it from:
http://media-converter.sourceforge.net
You also need to instal the Re-wrap AVCHD for Quicktime - uncompressed Audio preset from:
http://media-converter.sourceforge.net/presets.html
iMovie 10 (which requires Mavericks), can read .mts files directly.
Geoff.

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