• After witnessing the continued decrease of involvement in the SpotterNetwork staff in serving SN members with troubleshooting issues recently, I have unilaterally decided to terminate the relationship between SpotterNetwork's support and Stormtrack. I have witnessed multiple users unable to receive support weeks after initiating help threads on the forum. I find this lack of response from SpotterNetwork officials disappointing and a failure to hold up their end of the agreement that was made years ago, before I took over management of this site. In my opinion, having Stormtrack users sit and wait for so long to receive help on SpotterNetwork issues on the Stormtrack forums reflects poorly not only on SpotterNetwork, but on Stormtrack and (by association) me as well. Since the issue has not been satisfactorily addressed, I no longer wish for the Stormtrack forum to be associated with SpotterNetwork.

    I apologize to those who continue to have issues with the service and continue to see their issues left unaddressed. Please understand that the connection between ST and SN was put in place long before I had any say over it. But now that I am the "captain of this ship," it is within my right (nay, duty) to make adjustments as I see necessary. Ending this relationship is such an adjustment.

    For those who continue to need help, I recommend navigating a web browswer to SpotterNetwork's About page, and seeking the individuals listed on that page for all further inquiries about SpotterNetwork.

    From this moment forward, the SpotterNetwork sub-forum has been hidden/deleted and there will be no assurance that any SpotterNetwork issues brought up in any of Stormtrack's other sub-forums will be addressed. Do not rely on Stormtrack for help with SpotterNetwork issues.

    Sincerely, Jeff D.

MTS files and Mac

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Hi all
I'm having some issues with the MTS files coming from my sony hdr cx116E and the compatibility with Imovie (Mac).

Usually when I'm not at home, I transfer my MTS videos in my mini-pc and then I export them in my MAC via a usb key. Too bad there's no way to read those damned MTS files on my MAC; I downloaded a MTS file converter called "Im too video converter" but it converts the MTS files in HD-Mp4 files with a bad quality.

Any Mac user knows what to do?
 
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I ran into that problem too. It is odd because I can playback .MTS files on my Ubuntu and I believe I have on Windows as well. I'm assuming Apple really wants people to use their MP4 file format.
 
Intel vs Power PC processor

Andrea, I do not know if this helpful but will share my experience. I have a Sony HDR-XR550. I was not able to import videos using iMovie on my G5 Mac with the old Power PC processor. I am however successful when importing to iMovie on my newer Macbook Pro equiped with an Intel processor. I don't know why processor type makes a difference but apparently it does.
 
Andrea, I do not know if this helpful but will share my experience. I have a Sony HDR-XR550. I was not able to import videos using iMovie on my G5 Mac with the old Power PC processor. I am however successful when importing to iMovie on my newer Macbook Pro equiped with an Intel processor. I don't know why processor type makes a difference but apparently it does.

Sure, Stephen, infact I can import MTS file in imovie directly from my sony.

The problems come when I try to import to my Mac the MTS files coming from my mini pc (that often I use like a big storage device) with an USB key.
Basically the Mac isn't able to read those file MTS that comes from the minipc.
 
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