MPEG-2 TS to iMovie converter, convert TS files to iMovie DV, Quick Time movies(MOV), MPEG-4

What are TS files
TS files are MPEG-2 video files and recordings of television broadcasts in high definition. TS, short for Transport Stream, now spreads widely on the Internet as recordings from HDTV broadcasts. It is amazing for its high definition, however, you may be confused about how to play and edit TS files.

How to Play TS files
There are a variety of players and methods to playback TS files on mac.

1. Easiest Solution—using Media Player Directly Play TS files
VLC Players supports opening and playing TS files directly. Its lastest version is VLC Player 0.9.0. Make sure you download this version. To play a TS file, open the File menu, and select the Open File menu item.

2. Alternative ways
There is an another method to playback TS files that is to convert TS files to common video formats, such as converting TS to MOV for Quick Time Player on Mac. With this ways, you have no need to install another media player, which you may don’t like.

iOrgsoft TS to iMovie converter have the ability to convert TS to almost all popular video formats: Quick Time file(MOV), 3GP, 3G2, FLV(flash video), RM, RMVB, AVI, DV, MKV, WMV. You even can play TS files on many portable devices, such as iPod(iPod nano, iPod shuffle, iPod Classic, iPod touch), iPhone, PSP, Zune, GPhone, Mobile phone, Creative Zen, Blackberry after optimizing TS files with TS to iMovie converter.

iMoive tutorial: How to import TS files to iMovie

JVC Everio GZ-HD40 Camcorder or other HD camcorders supports MPEG-2 TS recording with superior video quality. When you want to edit these TS files with iMovie, you need an TS to iMovie converter.to convert TS to iMovie compatible video format.

With TS to iMovie converter, you are able to change TS to iMoive workable such as Quick Time movies(MOV), DV, MPEG-4 with a few mouse clicks so that you can easily import TS files into iMoive for editing. TS to iMovie converter also can assist you to edit your TS files as your wish: merging several TS files into one single file, cropping TS files to cut off the unwanted areas, trimming TS video to get your favorite video length, and so on.
The interface of the TS to iMovie converter looks like this:

iMovie HD vs iMovie08 vs iMovie09
There are three popular iMovie versions: iMovie HD, iMovie08, iMovie09. What is the difference among them? The following will show you:

iMovie’08, newer than iMovie HD, has a number of more interesting features than iMovie HD. iMovie’08 can show your videos as a series of still images in both the bin and timeline area, however iMovie HD just offers your a spot to store your video clips during video editing. After video editing, iMovie’08 offers more sharing options, allowing you to easily export to multiple files(such as DVD, mobile phone, iPhone, etc), but in iMovie HD, you have to do video export separately, one at a time.

Recently Apple announced its new ilife’09 Digital Lifestyle application Suite. One of iLife’09 apps is named iMovie’09 which added a number of nice features beyond those offered in iMovie HD and iMovie’08. In iMovie’09, you can manage your video like photos, offset the camera shake that occurs when shooting handheld video whit iMovie 09 ‘s new image stabilization feature and have the ability to set chapter markers and then export the imovie project directly to iDVD. For camcorders users, iMovie 09 is a great and amazing, because iMovie 09 can work with many camcorders using MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264 and AVCHD formats(If your video is in AVCHD format, make sure your Mac with an Intel-based Core Duo processor or better).