No worries. I find the older I get, the less patient I get (is it supposed to work that way?). I'm just frustrated at no matter how a phrase the question in my search bar, I get the same damn solicitations for converter software. And that may be the answer, I just want to get a some more information before I start acquiring all this free converter software.

I may or may not edit the files. Up to this point they are importing through imovie (the only way I've been able to do it up to this point).

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if you want to edit those MTS files with iMovie

The files I'm referencing are on an external drive that I used with my Windows machine. The camcorder link up for future imports will be less problematic, I believe, as you mentioned iMovie will convert upon import.

I believe that the lastest version of iMovie is auto converting those ext hard drive files into an Apple friendly format. As mentioned in the OP, that process seems to be hard on my iMac. It could be that I'm batching like 50 clips at a time. Not sure. Just wanted to see if someone could shed some light on a more efficient way of transferring.

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The AVI files you can just copy them with Finder and play them with any video app

The .avi files are "shadowed" in the finder. It doesn't let me do anything with them.

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Posted by Korkstand

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Posted on 2/24/15 at 11:04 am to LSUmakemewanna

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I find the older I get, the less patient I get (is it supposed to work that way?).

Probably. You feel that your time left with us is running short, so you have less time for bullshite.

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I'm just frustrated at no matter how a phrase the question in my search bar, I get the same damn solicitations for converter software. And that may be the answer, I just want to get a some more information before I start acquiring all this free converter software.

The reason for that is there aren't a whole lot of things you can do with MTS files. There isn't much software to edit or even play them directly (one of the few that exist probably came with the camera, might not be a Mac version), so converting them is a very common thing to do.

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I believe that the lastest version of iMovie is auto converting those ext hard drive files into an Apple friendly format. As mentioned in the OP, that process seems to be hard on my iMac. It could be that I'm batching like 50 clips at a time. Not sure. Just wanted to see if someone could shed some light on a more efficient way of transferring.

"Transferring" just means "copying", which is fast and easy and doesn't require any special software. Problem is you will still have MTS files, which you probably don't want. Converting to something more easily playable and editable like AVI or MPG is, like I said, a very intensive process and it's going to be hard on any machine (hard as in demanding, not as in difficult).

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The .avi files are "shadowed" in the finder. It doesn't let me do anything with them.

I don't know what the problem might be here, but maybe colorchangin can help you with that. Have you tried just copying and pasting them from your external to your Mac?

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