How to convert Panasonic MTS to MOV or MP4?

Recently, I accompanied my children to take part in children’s tours through the Royal Albert Hall for Victorian-themed stories and activities. During the activity, in order to give children a good memory, I use my Panasonic camera shot some videos follow the entire for my son, my little ones make their own Christmas cards and decorations, and their event will finish with a visit to Father Christmas to collect a Christmas stocking goody-bag. Now I need to import a portion of shot Panasonic MTS files into Premiere Elements for editing. But something wrong with it, I can’t open these MTS files in Premiere Elements. Now, I was so worry. Who can help me?

On the market, Panasonic has published a series of AVCHD MTS camera. MTS is a high-definition transport stream video file format and the reason why MTS is so popular lies in that video in .mts video format is definitely high quality. However, if you want to edit Panasonic AVCHD/MTS video, you will find FCP X, iMovie, Premiere Pro, FCE and Avid doesn’t support Panasonic AVCHD (.mts) files well. What if we want to do some editing on them? As known to all, MTS has its weakness as it is hard to edit and many software can’t support MTS. To get rid of these incompatible format issues, the best solution is to convert your Panasonic MTS footage to these popular editing software compatible format like Apple ProRes for FCP X, H.264 MOV for Premiere Pro, WMV for Windows Movies Maker, etc. So for converting Panasonic MTS files, you can use Panasonic MTS Converter to get the job done between MTS footage with editing software.

Panasonic MTS converter is the most powerful and useful video converter on the market. It mainly help Panasonic users to easy convert .MTS videos on their PC and Mac, additional with it, users can free convert .MTS files to any other video format you want, such as convert MTS to MP4, MOV, M4V, AVI, MKV, Divx, Xvid, FLV, etc. besides, it also has friendly profiles options to help users easy choose what kind of digital devices to use as, such as convert Panasonic MTS to iPad Pro, iPhone 6, Galaxy S6, Galaxy Note 5, QuickTime, Windows Media Player and other hundreds of digital devices. So all in all, whenever you want to convert Panasonic MTS to MOV or MP4, it will become so easy and convenient with the Panasonic MTS converter.

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Guide 1: How to convert Panasonic MTS to MOV on Mac or Windows

Step1: Load Panasonic MTS footage into the MTS Converter
Install and run the best Panasonic MTS Converter, click “Add files” to load your Panasonic MTS footage.

Step 2: Select the output format
Click the “Format” option drop-down list, and choose the proper format for you. Acrok MTS Converter offer you a lot of MOV options, such as H.264 MOV, ProRes MOV, QuickTime MOV, etc. So you can choose anyone as you needs.

For playing Panasonic MTS on Mac via QuickTime, you need to choose QuickTime MOV as out put format, you can get it in Common Video category.

For FCP X users, it is recommended to choose “Final cut Pro” > “Apple ProRes 422(*.mov)”.

For Adobe Premiere Pro users，it is recommended to choose “Editing Software” > “Adobe Premiere/Sony Vegas MOV (AVC)(*.mov)”.

Tips: If you want to add some watermark to your Panasonic MTS footage, you can click “Editing” to set up.

Step 3: Start video conversion
Once the above steps are finished, tap “Convert” button to start the Panasonic MTS footage to different MOV conversion.

Finally, click “Open” button to find the converted files, then import and edit the footage on Mac or Windows.

Guide 2: How to convert MTS to MP4 via Panasonic MTS Converter

Step1: Load Panasonic MTS videos

Step 2: Select the output format
Click the “Format” option drop-down list, and choose “Common Video” > “H.264 Video (*.mp4)”.

Step 3: Start video conversion

When the conversion is done, you can get the converted videos by clicking “Open” button. Now you can play the converted Panasonic MTS video on any device or media player.