
The first option was a bit of a surprise, albeit a very pleasant one! Final Cut Pro 6.0.1 update adds AVCHD transfer capabilitiesĪpple’s own Final Cut Studio 2 suite had a minor update for Final Cut Pro to version 6.0.1 which added the capability to transfer the AVCHD footage. Fortunately there are at least a couple of options now for Mac OSX systems. So things were looking up at least for the Windows using owners of AVCHD capable camcorders, things weren’t looking nearly so bright for those of us wanting to edit AVCHD footage on Apple Mac OSX. Ok, so you can edit AVCHD on Windows, but how do you edit AVCHD on Mac OSX? Although the cameras had been out since mid 2006 the first fully capable software for editing the footage only became available with the recent release of Sony’s Vegas 7 editing software for Windows. The main issue when I first wrote about it was that there wasn’t really *any* software available to edit the footage regardless of whether you were using a Mac OSX or Windows based system. I’ve written a few times recently about the difficulties people have had editing video footage in the AVCHD format that is used by the new generation of Disc-based HD Cameras such as Sony’s HDR-SR7 and HDR-SR8.

Find out how to edit AVCHD on a budget using Windows Movie Maker!
