Unlike Final Cut Pro and iMovie, the HD Video Converter for Mac reads single AVCHD. The biggest problem becomes people who move out the individual files from the folder structure – once out of there (and they usually delete the folder structure) they end up with un-useable files that need to be transcoded prior to importing into iMovie. You can also backup your footage to another hard drive from the SD card as long as you transfer the entire AVCHD folder structure then later if you want to import it (if using iMovie) just transfer it all back over to the SD card so iMovie can recognize it (unlike the way it works in FCE or FCP which allows you to navigate to a folder location storing the AVCHD private folder and have it find the footage for you which is much more convenient). The video and audio is stored in the mts/m2ts (Transport Stream) files.Īs long as you leave them in the AVCHD structure, you can import them whether the SD card is in the camera, or if you plug the SD card into a reader. cpi (clip info) contains various contains metadata describing an AVCHD video stream, such as the frame rate, frames per second, and aspect ratio. The AVCHD directory contains a folder for clipinfo which contains one. CPI contains metadata about the video it just tags it with information the MTS is the actual video stream. Please help me… I get really frustrated… Don’t know what to do anymore…Thanks for any help.”įile extension CPI is AVCHD Video Clip Information File. Really annoying because I really need to get this footage down for further editing… My Mac is Intel based, and I am running on Mac OS X Mountain Lion. I have checked the clips and everything seems fine to me. The format shown is CPI, which iMovie’11 recognize the import but when I go to import an individual clip or clips, the iMovie pop up says that there is something wrong with the clips and that I should review the clips carefully. The bad surprise is that after recording in HD I can not edit the files in my Mac through iMovie. “Hi there, I recently bought a SONY HDR-CX100. How can I edit CPI files in iMovie smoothly? Wouldn’t import CPI files to iMovie? Looking for an easy way to work with AVCHD CPI files on Mac through iMovie? Read this post to learn a workaround to transcode CPI files to Apple InterMediate Codec for use in iMovie with optimum performance. This entry was posted in Video file conversion on by Richard

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