What recommendations do you have for converting AVCHD Sony .mts files to apple .m4v movies?

I have a 3 yo Sony HD camcorder that records HD movies in AVCHD (.mts) format. I can view, edit and combine these movies on my Windows 7 PC w the Sony PMB (Picture Motion Browser). PMB can convert any clip to make a SD or HD Blu Ray disc. However for viewing on other computers, it will only convert my .mts movies to a .mov or .wmv format.
I would like to convert these .mts files to apple mpeg-4 ( .m4v) files, for ease of viewing on apple AND/OR windows laptops/desktops and to allow my friends/family the ability to edit or combine these movie clips on their iMac w iMovie.
Do you have any "pay" or shareware or freeware products that you recommend? I don't want a super complex or super expensive program, rather something that is relatively simple and easy to use and that converts it to .m4v within a reasonable amount of time.
Recommendations?

Its confusing but iMovie '11 (the version that came with iLife 2011) is iMovie version 9.
I think .m2ts files will work the same as .mts files. The program in the link is free for what you want to do so you could thy this out. I have never used it myself so I can't vouch for it. I searched under ".mts to .m4v converter" and it came up with this. You can probably find other options if you Google around.
As I indicated iMovie '11 won't import 'bare' .m2ts files, only iMovie 10 (the Mavericks version) can do that but it should accept .m4v. I don't remember wheter .m4v is an output option but .mov certainly is.
I had assumed that you wanted to do more detailed editing in iMove but if you only want to trim it then indeed you don't need to use iMovie at all.
.m4v is not the only format which is cross-platform. I think .mov is OK on Windows if you have Quicktime installed (though I don't use Windows at all).
I hope this helps,
Geoff.

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