How to Edit Panasonic HS700 1080 28Mbps MTS on Windows Movie Maker

As a followup to the well-lauded HS300, Panasonic HS700 has attracted much attention due to its 240GB HDD, new 35mm-style wide angle lenses, 12x optical zoom and some gyroscope-based "Power O.I.S." image stabilization. All these distinguished features guarantee its extreme high quality 1080/60p 28Mbps AVCHD video recordings. This point also make some users confused because of its incompatibility with most of editing software, like Windows Movie Maker.

The best solution of this problem is converting AVCHD files generated from Panasonic HS700 to other video formats editable by Windows Movie Maker, including AVI, WMV, MPEG or ASF. By googling, you will find the program called Aunsoft MTS Converter is the widely used Panasonic HS700 converter to convert and decode its 1080/60p 28Mbps AVCHD video recordings.

If you are a Panasonic camcorder owner, please refer to the following step by step guide to edit generated AVCHD footages on Windows Movie Maker.

Step 1. Load Panasonic MTS videos to Aunsoft MTS Converter.

After transferring .mts files from Panasonic HDC-HS700 computer PC hard drive, run Aunsoft MTS/M2TS Converter as the Panasonic HS700 MTS to WMV converter, and click the "Add" button to load .mts videos.

Step 2. Choose WMV as output format for Windows Movie Maker.

Click the "Format" option, and follow Adobe Premiere/Sony Vegas > WMV (VC-1)(*.wmv) from the pull-list of "Format". And then this Panasonic HS700 AVCHD to WMV converter will transcode 1080/60p MTS to 1080/20p WMV with original Hi-def 1920x1080.

The default video codec is WMV3, and you can change the frame rate from 20 to 24 or other value if you click the "Settings" button.

Step 3. Convert Panasonic TM700 MTS to WMV for WMM.

Click the big "Convert" button, the Panasonic HS700 AVCHD to WMV converter will start the conversion from 1080/60p 28Mbps MTS to WMV3 for Windows Movie Maker.

Tips:

1. If you have other models of Panasonic camcorders, like Panasonic HDC-TM700, SD700, SD600, SD60, Panasonic DMC-ZS7/TZ10 and ect, follow the above guide and you are allowed to edit its MTS recordings on Windows Movie Maker, Sony Vegas and other editing software.

2. Learn more tricks of editing and playing Sony, Canon, Panasonic HD camcorders AVCHD/MTS/M2TS/TS/M2TS video files on family video players and editing software, please enter Aunsoft camcorder column.