[Pete Carney]

I have had a TM700 for 11 months now and can assure you that the TM700 records and stores 60 unique progressive frames per second.

The TM700 captures and compresses 60 unique progressive frames per second in standard avc/h.264, but it uses an unconvetional mpeg2 AVCHD transfer stream.

It is this combination that FCP and iMovie are incapible of deciphering. Here’s a post from apple discussions on how to rewrap from mpeg2 to mp4 transfer stream without transcoding so that iMovie and FCP can log and transfer.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=13140172
“I created an Automator workflow to make it a simple drag-and-drop process. You can get it from my MobileMe public folder (https://public.me.com/catservant) and it’s named Rewrap2M4V.app.

It requires you to get the ClipGrab application (https://clipgrab.de/download_en.html) because it uses the copy of ffmpeg embedded in ClipGrab’s application bundle (it’s the only up-to-date compiled copy I could find reasonably easily). ClipGrab must be installed in the /Applications folder in order for the workflow to work; the workflow itself can be installed anywhere.

Then, just drag and drop the .m2ts or .mts files onto Rewrap2M4V.app. The converted files will have the same name with a .m4v extension appended.”

I’m sure there are newer pieces of software that you can buy to do this, but I happned to have the link to this one.

Cheers,
Pete