Panasonic Lumix GH2 is capable of recording Full HD 1080/24p and 1080i AVCHD videos. For the 1080/24p video, you can choose high quality (24H) with 24Mbps or low quality (24L) with 17Mbps. With the incompatibility of Panasonic Lumix GH2 AVCHD Lite footages with iMovie, the best solution to edit Panasonic GH2 AVCHD Lite files are transcoding AVCHD Lite to Apple ProRes or AIC for importing and editing in iMovie.
Aunsoft Video Converter for Mac , working as a prfessional AVCHD Lite to Apple ProRes or AICÂ Â Converter is the ideal tool to trancode Panasonic GH2Â Â AVCHD Lite files to iMovie friendly Apple Intermediate Codec(AIC). This software is also workable with other Panasonic Lumix camcorders, like Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS3/TZ7, DMC-TS1/FT1 and DMC-FZ35/38. With this program,edit AVCHD (Lite) in Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Express and iMovie. With FCP/iMovie preferred editing video codec Apple proRes or AIC, importing and editing AVCHD Lite is at their fighertip.

To make full use of FCP and keep the best quality of HD video, five versions of Apple ProRes codec are provided including ProRes 422, ProRes 422(HQ), ProRes 422(LT), ProRes 422(Proxy) and ProRes 444. For iMovie and FCE users, Apple Intermediate Codec is the best choice for importing and editing.
Follow the guide below and you will find it easy to edit videos from the full HD movie recording interchangeable lens system camera on Mac OS X.
Step 1. Upload Lumix AVCHD files to Aunsoft Video Converter for Mac.
Connect Panasonic GH2 to Apple iMac/MacBook Pro via USB 2.0 cable, run Aunsoft Video Converter for Mac as the best 2011 Lumix GH2 AVCHD Lite to AIC for iMovie/FCP. Click the “Add” button to browse and import the .mts files from Lumix camera to Mac application.
Step 2. Choose AIC codec with 1920×1080 or 1280×720 video size.
Click the “Format” option, and move mouse cursor to QuickTime Movie Format > Apple InterMediate Codec(AIC) (*.mov) as output format. To get 1080 video, click the “Settings” button and choose 1920*1080 for FCE 4 for iMovie. To get 720p output video size, just choose 1280*720 from the drop-down.

Step 3. Convert Panasonic AVCHD to MOV with AIC for iMovie/FCE.
Click the convert button under the preview window, the Mac Lumix GH2 Video  converter will start the Lumix to iMovie conversion with AVCHD to AIC in HD resolution.
Tips:
If you want to edit Lumix DMC-GH2 AVCHD Files in Windows Movie Maker, Adobe Premiere, Avid, Sony Vegas.etc ,just free download the Windows 7 DMC-GH2 AVCHD converter for Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7.
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