My friend shot videos with the new Panasonic Lumix DMC-G1. After downloading the AVCHD Lite .mts videos from DMC-G1 to iMovie 8/9/11 and exporting as .mov, the video is 2x speed faster than the audio in normal speed. QuickTime Player does not support the 720p MTS, and the VLC media player does not recognize the DMC-G1 .mts files from built-in memory of the camera.
The free to try method is to update VLC to see if it works for the DMC-G1 AVCHD Lite 720p MTS videos then. Another solution is to convert AVCHD Lite to MOV with third party software with perfect synchronization. If you have just purchased Lumix DMC-G1 digital camera, and have difficulties playing the recorded AVCHD Lite files on iMac, UFUSoft AVCHD Converter for Mac is the recommended Panasonic Lumix AVCHD Lite Mac Converter on OS X 10.4 Tiger, 10.5 Leopard, 10.6 Snow Leopard, 10.7 Lion and 10.8 Mountain Lion.
Follow the simple steps below to play Panasonic Lumix DMC-G1 AVCHD Lite videos on Mac in HD 720p.
Step 1. Load Panasonic DMC-G1 AVCHD Lite videos to the AVCHD Lite Converter for Mac.
Connect Lumix DMC-G1 to iMac and transfer .mts files from camera SD Memory Card, SDHC Memory Card, or SDXC Memory Card to Apple hard drive. Run the AVCHD Converter for Mac as the perfect Mac Panasonic DMC-G1 video converter, and click the “Add” button to load .mts videos for conversion.
Step 2. Choose MOV format.
Click the “Profile” option, and choose Common Video > H.264 MOV (AVC)(*.mov) or Final Cut Pro > Apple ProRes 422(HQ) (*.mov) as output format. The Mac Panasonic video converter will transcode AVCHD Lite MTS to MOV, keeping the original DMC-G1 video resolution 720p by adjusting video size in Settings.
Step 3. Convert Panasonic DMC-G1 video to MOV for QuickTime.
Click the convert button under the preview window, and the conversion from Panasonic Lumix DMC-G1 720p AVCHD Lite MTS to MOV for QuickTime Player starts right away.
After the conversion, the output videos shall play on QuickTime without video and audio synchronization issue, and the output videos could be imported to iMovie, Final Cut Pro (FCP), Avid, Adobe Premiere, After Effects, Kendlive, Sony Vegas Pro and FCE4 for editing, and iDVD for burning to DVD.
Tips:
The Mac Panasonic video converter also works with all AVCHD Lite camcorders and AVCHD videos from other Panasonic camcorders like Lumix G10, Lumix SZ25, Lumix TS5, Lumix FT25, Lumix LZ30, Lumix XS1, Lumix FH10, Lumix F5, Lumix SZ3, HDC-TM350, HDC-TM900, HDC-HS900, HC-X900, HC-X800, HC-V700, HC-V500, HC-V100, HC-V10, AC90, HDC-TM40, HC-X920, HDC-TM700, HDC-HS700, HDC-HS250, HDC-SD60, etc.
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