avchd for imovie
I'm thinking of buying a Canon Vixia HR F20 camcorder because of its external mic socket. it appears to produce AVCHD video files. Are these instantly recogniseable by a Mac and iMovie in particular?
I'm using a new iMac 21.5 inch with 4Gb RAM and 1 Tb hard disk. Am I going to have difficulties viewing these files? Will I need to convert each file to a mac readable format?
Recently my Samsung R10 HD camcorder broke. It produced Mpeg-4 files that the mac read straight away.
Please help. Thank you.
iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)