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Transcode/Import Panasonic HDC-SD800 1080/60p AVCHD to iPhoto 8/9/11 on Mac Mountain Lion

Panasonic HDC-SD800 is one of the new selection of ‘Full’ High Definition (HD) 3x MOS memory card camcorders. It houses a 12 x optical image stabilised zoom lens, with a 20 x digital zoom, and a 1080p HD processor and a large, high quality 3.0″ touchscreen LCD. The camcorder also has the ability to record still images of upto 14 megapixels. Fully featured with OIS image stabilisation Full HD in a compact video Camcorder. 

iPhoto is a digital photograph manipulation software application developed by Apple Inc. and released with every Macintosh personal computer as part of the iLife suite of digital life management applications. First released in 2002, iPhoto can import, organize, edit, print and share digital photography. It is often compared to Google’s Picasa, CyberLink MediaShow, Adobe’s Photoshop Album, Microsoft Expression Media and Windows Live Photo Gallery. iPhoto 11, the latest version of the software, was released as part of the iLife ’11 suite.

If you like to using iPhoto to manage your Panasonic HDC-SD800 AVCHD videos, you need convert the 1080/60p AVCHD MTS to iPhoto compatible video formats like Quicktime MOV, MP4, DV. And UFUSoft AVCHD Converter for Mac can be used as an excellent Panasonic AVCHD to iPhoto Converter for Mac to do an excellent job to make iPhoto all versions like iPhoto 5, iPhoto 6, iPhoto 7, iPhoto 8, iPhoto 9, iPhoto 11 work with Panasonic HDC-SD800 AVCHD videos. The tool can convert 1080p 60fps AVCHD to MOV for importing to iPhoto. You can also merge AVCHD video footage into a single file or edit AVCHD with iPhoto 8/9/11.

If you would like to catalogue Panasonic HDC-SD800 1080/60p MTS on Mac with iPhoto, just follow the steps below.

Step 1. Upload Panasonic AVCHD videos to the MTS Converter for Mac.
After connecting Panasonic HDC-SD800 Camera to iMac, run the AVCHD Converter for Mac as the best 1080p AVCHD to iPhoto Converter for Mac. Click the “Add” button to load the 1080p .mts videos from Panasonic HDC-SD800 camera through the PRIVATE > AVCHD > BDMW > STREAM folder.

Step 2. Choose MOV format for iPhoto 8/9/11
Click the “Profile” option, and choose HD Video > HD MOV-QuickTime (*.mov) as output format. The Mac Panasonic AVCHD converter will transcode Panasonic HDC-SD800 1080/60p AVCHD files to MOV with original 1920×1080 HD definition as H.264 as QuickTime codec.

convert 1080p AVCHD to MOV for iphoto

Step 3. Convert Panasonic HDC-SD800 AVCHD to MOV for iPhoto.
Click the convert button under the preview window, and the Mac Panasonic HDC-SD800 MTS converter will start converting Panasonic SD800 AVCHD MTS to iPhoto 8/9/11 compatible MOV videos.

After the conversion is finished, you can use iPhoto to catologue the output videos, if you like, you can also edit the output videos via Final Cut Pro X/7, Final Cut Express, or iMovie 11 on Mac.

Tips:
1. If you are using Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8, and want to edit Panasonic HDC-SD800 AVCHD in Windows Movie Maker, burn to DVD with DVD Maker, just free download the Windows version of AVCHD Video Converter.

2. The AVCHD Converter for Mac also works with other Panasonic AVCHD camcorders like HDC-TM700/HS700/SD700/SD600/TM900/SD900/hs900, etc and Panasonic Lumix cameras like DMC-ZS3/TZ7, DMC-TZ10, DMC-FZ40, DMC-FZ45, DMC-FZ35, DMC-TZ20, DMC-TS1/FT1, DMC-TS2/FT2, DMC-FX75.