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Best Mac 1080 AVCHD video to Blu-ray Converter – Burn 1080/60p Video to Blu-ray Disc

Posted by admin on September 27, 2010 Leave a comment Go to comments

Blu-ray (not Blue-ray) also known as Blu-ray Disc (BD), is the name of a next-generation optical disc format jointly developed by the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA), a group of the world’s leading consumer electronics, personal computer and media manufacturers (including Apple, Dell, Hitachi, HP, JVC, LG, Mitsubishi, Panasonic, Pioneer, Philips, Samsung, Sharp, Sony, TDK and Thomson).Blu-ray is currently supported by about 200 of the world’s leading consumer electronics, personal computer, recording media, video game and music companies. It is the current range of disc and it is a nice choice to burn camcorder wedding recordings to Blu-ray disc for easily sharing and playing. But if you are a Panasonic 700 camcorder owner, it is a hard task to burn its generated 1080/60p MTS files to Blu-ray until you use a powerful MTS converter which is able to convert 1080/60p MTS files to BD burner workable video formats.

As the only one video decoder compatible with Panasonic 1080/60p AVCHD files, Aunsoft Video Converter for Mac can works fine as a Panasonic HS700/SD700 video converter for Mac. For buring its generated MTS footages to BD, the first step is to convert 1080/60p MTS to MOV. Except for Aunsoft Video Converter for Mac, other applications needed includes Apple Compressor, which is included in Final Cut Studio, and Adobe Encore CS3 or CS4, CS5.
Panasonic owners who have the models of TM700/SD700/HS700/SD60/SD600 can accomplish 1080/60p AVCHD to Blu-ray Discs by following the step-by-step guide.

Step 1. Load Panasonic video to Aunsoft Video Converter for Mac.(For Windows User: Aunsoft Video Converter)
After transferring .mts files from Apple hard drive, run Aunsoft Video Converter for Mac and click the “Add” button to load 1080/60p or 1080/50p videos.

Step 2. Choose HD MOV format.
Click the “Format” option and choose HD Video > H.264 HD Video(*.mov) as output format. To get high-definition video for Blu-ray Disc, click the “Settings” button to change the frame rate to to Blu-ray disc compatible 23.976. And 1080/60p MTS files will be transcoded to 1080/24p MOV for burning Panasonic MTS to Blu-ray Discs on Mac.

Step 3. Convert Panasonic MTS to MOV for Apple Compressor.
Click the big convert button at the bottom-right corner, and the conversion from Panasonic 1080/60p MTS to 1080/24p MOV for Apple Compressor will start immediately, keeping the 5.1-channel surround sound.

Step 4. Load video to Apple Compressor.
Run Apple Compressor which is available with Final Cut Studio, and import the output MOV files. Use the preset profiles: MPEG-2 Program Stream with MPEG audio at 48kHz as video and Dolby Digital 5.1 as audio. Then choose Blu-ray for “Stream Usage” in Inspector windows.

Step 5. Load video to Adobe Encore.
Open Encore and import videos by choosing Import As > Asset. Create a menu for the Blu-ray disc, and bring video clips to timeline. Go to the Build tab and click the “Build” button to start encoding and burning media to the external Blu-ray Writer with a blank Blu-ray disk.

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