Best Panasonic HDC-HS60 AVCHD Video Converter Review : Play/Convert HS60 Video to FCE4

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The HDC-HS60 is part of Panasonic’s new crop of mid-range camcorders for 2010. It boasts a 1/4.1-inch CMOS sensor, 25x optical zoom lens, and 120GB internal hard drive. The camcorder impressed us with its strong performance, but we expect a lot of good competition in the mid-range camcorder market this year.The HDC-HS60 will be available later this year for $699.95. The HS60 is part of a series from Panasonic that includes the HDC-SD60 and the HDC-TM55. The Panasonic HDC-HS60 uses the same AVCHD compliant compression system as last year’s HD models from Panasonic. This compression system, which uses the MPEG4-AVC/H.264 codec is a standard in the consumer camcorder industry for high definition camcorders. We must point out that the HDC-HS60 tops out with a bitrate of 17Mbps for recording video. The maximum bitrate AVCHD can handle is 24Mbps, and all of the other major manufacturers offer this recording bitrate—including Sony, who implemented a 24Mbps bitrate on its new camcorders in 2010. We’re somewhat surprised that Panasonic did not make the jump to 24Mbps this year, although the company does offer a 24Mbps bitrate on some of its professional camcorders. The HDC-HS60 has four quality settings for recording video, but it does not have any options for recording in standard definition.

Now All the non-tape media have the advantage of speedy transfer from camcorder to a computer via USB. But After shooting plenty of happy and momerable footages, how will you make deal with these video files?Following is the detailed guide on how to make these video files playable on Mac and editable on Final Cut Express 4 (FCE4).

Step 1. Load Panasonic HD videos to Aunsoft MTS/M2TS Converter for Mac.
Connect Panasonic HDC-HS60 to iMac with USB cable, and transfer .mts files from camcorder to Apple hard drive. Run Aunsoft MTS/M2TS Converter for Mac as the best Mac MTS to MOV converter. And the AVCHD video files are loaded in two ways:by clicking the “Add” button or draging them to this program directly.

Step 2. Choose MOV format with H.264.
Click the “Format” option, and choose Adobe Premiere/Sony Vegas > MOV (AVC)(*.mov) for converting Panasonic HS60 AVCHD to MOV with H.264/AVC as video codec.

Step 3. Convert MTS to MOV for FCE4.
Click the convert button, and the Mac Panasonic HS60 Video converter starts converting HDC-HS60 AVCHD videos to H.246 .mov for Final Cut Express 4.

After the conversion, just bring the HD videos to FCE4. It should work seamlessly and provide high quality editing.No doubt, a variety of output video formats are provied to you for playing on different media players and editing on various editing software,like:iMovie,Final Cut Pro,Avid Media Composer,Adobe Premiere,Windows Movie Maker,After Effects,Sony Vegas .etc

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