How to Play and Convert MTS/M2TS Video Files to MOV on Mac OS X (Yosemite included)

Back from a trip with a lot of recorded MTS/M2TS video clips and want to share them with your family members and friends, or beautify them on an editing tool that supports MOV format? For convenient playback and editing, you might need to change the video format from MTS/M2TS to MOV on Mac(Yosemite, Mavericks included). And this is a specific tutorial, aiming at helping you convert MTS or M2TS files to MOV files on Mac.

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AVCHD (Advanced Video Coding High Definition) is a format for the recording and playback of high definition (HD) video. It is with .mts extension which is a high-definition MPEG, AVC, H.264 transport stream video file format. AVCHD MTS files are used primarily with Sony hardware. Some camcorder models from Canon also use MTS files. These files are also present on Blu-ray disc compilations, therefore they are capable of storing quite a large amount of information and data tracks.

Do you want to enjoy MTS with QuickTime Player, edit MTS in Final Cut Pro or iMovie? Here we will teach you how to convert AVCHD MTS/M2TS video to Mac OS X playable video format MOV, and play AVCHD on Mac OS X, including the latest Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite.

First and for the most, you need download and install the professional app-Brorsoft MTS/M2TS Converter for Mac. Depite of its nice feature for converting MTS/M2TS to MOV, it offers you some editing features as well. You can either merge video clips into a large file or trim a file into segments. What's more. you can also change the video effect.

Download the software and learn how to convert MTS to MOV on Mac OS X in detail.

Download MTS Converter for Mac:

(Note: Click here for OS X 10.5.8)

Step 1. Add MTS footage

Once you run the MTS to MOV Converter Mac, click "Add Video" button to load your source MTS files. When MTS files are loaded, you can view the videos from the Preview window. By checking the "Merge into one file" box, you can merge MTS clips into one file.



Step 2. Select "MOV" from the output format list

Setting an output format has never been easier. Just choose MOV - QuickTime (*.mov) as the output format in the format tray. To adjust the video settings, click the "Settings" button that appears when you mouse over the format icon. Video resolution, bit rate and frame rate are included there.



Step 3. Start the MTS/M2TS to MOV Mac conversion

Click the "Convert" button to get the conversion done in a few minutes. You see, just 3 simple steps and you can convert camcorder MTS/M2TS files to MOV on Mac. If you are busy, you can set "When all jobs finished" to "Shut down my computer" in the Preferences dialog of this Video Converter for Mac.

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