How to play and edit Sony HDR video on Mac OS X

Having a lot of Sony HDR videos but you are confused when facing How to play and edit Sony HDR video on Mac OS X? First, see some collected information about Sony DCR video and the resolution is given in the text below.

Sony HDR series cams are High Definition Models . Most popular models are as the following.

HDR-XR100E
HDR-SR12E (MPEG)
HDR-SR11E
HDR-SR10E(.MTS)
HDR-CX520E/CX500E
HDR-CX100E
HDR-CX12E
HDR-TG1E
HDR-TG5E
HDR-HC9E
HDR-FX1000E
HDR-FX7E
HDR-FX1E
HDR-CX7
HDR-SR5

HDR-CX100/R
HDR-CX12
HDR-CX500V
HDR-CX520V
HDR-FX1000
HDR-FX7
HDR-TG5V
HDR-UX7
HDR-XR100
HDR-XR200V
HDR-XR500V
HDR-XR520V
HDR-TG5V
HDR-CX100
HDR-CX100/B

Sony HDR-XR100 Camcorder

Sony HDR-XR 500V

Sony HDR-CX100

Sony HDR-FX7E

Sony HDR videos are mainly AVCHD or AVCHD / MPEG-2 videos .The files extension may be different .The output format of SDR-SR12 is mpeg; the output of Sony SDR-SR10, Sony HDR-SR11, Sony HDR-XR100, Sony HDR XR-500V, Sony HDR-TG1 , Sony HDR-CX7, SDR HDR-SR5 all output videos as the .mts file. The AVCHD mts videos can be well converted for Mac by Sony HDR video converter for Mac.

If you have difficulties in importing these Sony HD video on your Mac, you can refer to this article about How to import HDR video to Mac.

However, these Sony original videos can’t be played or edited on Mac OS X frequently, so you need to convert them to .mov or mp4 to edit. When you would like to play and edit Sony videos on your Mac with applications such as iMovie, Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere Pro etc on .there are two occasions.

1. The application can recognize your format and you can import and edit it directly, like iMovie, which can accept some videos directly, but sometimes can’t.(look up for the iMovie 09: Camcorder Support)

2. If your Sony videos can’t be played and edited on your Mac (like mts and some other formats), the best solution is to apply this programme Sony HDR Video Converter for Mac.

You can trim sony HDR video length, crop video area, set video brightness, contrast, and saturation effect, and customize video/audio output settings.

Sony HDR Video Converter for Mac can convert HDR videos for Mac with fast speed and good quality. You can convert videos to mp4, mov, mkv, wmv, flv etc on.

Then the output Sony camera videos can be shared on iPod, iPhone (iPhone OS 3.0), PSP, PSP Go, Apple TV, Nokia and other mobile players.

Besides, with this Sony Video Converter for Mac, you can also trim, crop, effect Sony camera videos on Mac. Here is a step by step guide about editing Sony video on Mac OS X.