Data transfer problem from Panasonic Camcorder to Mac
I was an iMovie 9 lover...who has recently updated to iMovie 10...I have a Panasonic HC W580M camcorder which iMovie 10 recognises and will upload files to. However, I then can't access the raw files to rename and sort and save in Folders on my Mac or external hard drive (like I used to be able to in the 'Movie Events' folder that iMovie 9 would create automatically). When I try to copy my videos from the SD card to my Mac it only gives me a Quicktime file called AVCHD that I can seemingly do nothing with.
So what I really want it to be able to transfer raw files, rename and then import to iMovie 10 as needed.
Does anyone know how to solve this problem...someone suggested downloading an HD writer but I'm unsure which one i need to download? And then...how to prevent this happening again (I gather now from reading that I should've chosen iFrame/mp4 format on my camcorder, but this only provides quality up to 720p.
Any advice greatly appreciated