How to Convert MTS/M2TS to MOV on Mac

After a wonderful vacation you've just enjoyed with your family or your friend, what can be a good tool to play or edit those best memories that you captured in your high definition camera with iMovie, Final Cut Pro or Final Cut Express?

As we know, HD Camcorder shoots mts video clips. Importing a MTS/M2TS file into iMovie is not a straightforward process, and you need to use the third party software - Aimersoft Video Converter for Mac, it is a powerful Mac MTS to MOV Converter, which can convert between popular video format (including converting MTS/M2TS to MOV on Mac)with high speed and excellent quality on Mac OS X (Snow Leopard, Lion included).

What's more, this Mac MTS Converter enables you to trim and crop video clips, set video effects, preview in real-time, and even add watermark onto your video.

Below is the detailed guide on how to convert M2TS video to MOV on Mac, enjoy it now!

1Free download Video Converter for Mac

Free download MTS Converter for Mac software, install and run it.

Note: For Windows users, you can use Windows Video Converter to convert mts/m2ts to mov.

2Import your MTS/M2TS files

Click "Add files" button on top of the window to import your MTS/M2TS files, then you can see them in the playlist; you can delete one or more files as you like and preview your files before conversion.

3Choose output format

Click the icon on the thumbnail to choose the output format, here we choose "Common Video", then "MOV - QuickTime Movie".

Expand the "Output" panel, select an output directory:

4Edit the MTS Video

Actually, you are offered some useful edit functions to edit the MTS files here: just put your mouse on the video thumbnail, you can choose to trim the video, crop the size and even add special effects personalize your video from the edit menu. So before you import MTS to Final Cut Pro or iMovie for further editing, you here can simply do some steps. It's simpler and also useful.

5Click "Start" button to convert

Begin to convert MTS, M2TS to MOV on Mac while you press "start" button.

Here is the video tutorial about converting MTS/M2TS to MOV on Mac OS X.

What is MOV?

MOV is a file extension used by the QuickTime-wrapped files. The format was created by Apple Computer to work with multimedia files. MOV is a container format and can contain video, animation, graphics, 3D and virtual reality (VR) content or text (for subtitles, for example).

What is MTS/M2TS?

The .m2ts file format is given to video/audio files created by certain Sony Camcorder models. An .m2ts file is a Sony high definition video file type. Panasonic, Canon and other brands of AVCHD camcorders also record in m2ts format. Currently, m2ts files can be played using the Picture Motion Browser, which is an application video player provided with Sony AVCHD camcorders.

Why MTS/M2TS to MOV?

MTS/M2ts files are raw AVCHD videos, and the main disadvantages are large-size and they can't be played on the common players such as Apple TV, Zune, PSP, PS3, Pocket PC, Creative Zen, and other video players. For the Mac users, even QuickTime, iMovie, Final Cut Pro and Final Cut Express can't support these formats. That is to say, you have to convert the MTS/M2TS files to other formats (e.g., MOV)