Developed jointly by Sony and Panasonic, the format was announced in 2006 primarily for use in high definition consumer camcorders. AVCHD is a file-based format and does not use magnetic tape. Instead, video can be recorded onto DVD discs, hard disk drives, non-removable solid-state memory and removable flash memory such as Secure Digital and Memory Stick cards.

However, I found many people want to know how to import AVCHD to QuickTime Mac as below.

Q1: How can I convert a video file to .MTS, AVCHD format?

I have an MPG 4 file that I want to convert to AVCHD format, so I can put it BACK on my camera (Canon Vixia HG20.) How can I convert this file to the AVCHD format? I could convert it from MPG4 to a variety of formats, including AVI, DivX, Xvid, QuickTime, Etc.

Q2: Can the Panasonic ZS3 record motion pictures in the regular Quicktime format?

Can the Panasonic ZS3 record motion pictures in the regular Quicktime format as opposed to the AVCHD lite?

For resolving these problems, I search a tool— AVCHD to QuickTime Mac gives a wonderful solution for converting AVCHD to QuickTime with high-speed converting and optimal output quality. Thanks to its versatility, it can also deal with the conversion between video formats. Moreover, the output formats can be playable on various media players like iMovie, iTunes and portable devices such as iPod, iPhone, PSP, Zune etc.