Windows and Mac M2TS to MOV converter is a free software program which can convert M2TS video files to MOV format. with this free M2TS to mov converter, you can playback your AVCHD camcorder recorded video .M2TS format on itunes, quicktime, iPad, iPhone, Apple TV and other digital devices that support playing MOV. all above mentioned devices support direclty playing M2TS by default. in order to play .M2TS, the best way is to convert M2TS to MOV to keep the original M2TS video quality yet compressed with smaller size storage. You can also use it to convert M2TS to MOV for linear editing purpose, to edit it under imovie, fcpx or affer effects. besides its windows version, This free software aso has mac os x version supporting latest mavericks os 10.9.
Play M2TS on itunes and Quicktime Player:
both itunes and Quicktime player can be used as a video player, but neither itunes or quicktime only can play limited video formats: MOV, M4V, MP4 for example. so enable itunes or quicktime play M2TS, the alternative is converting M2TS to mov/m4v/mp4.
Here I show you how to use M2TS to mov converter to convert M2TS that can be played in itunes and quicktime.
Step 1: Download M2TS to mov converter from the above link
Step 2: have it installed on your computer, then launch it
M2TS to mov converter interface
step 3: Under HD video- choose HD MOV video (*.mov)
output mov format
step 4: click "convert" button to start conversion.
After converting M2TS to mov, the converted mov can be played in quicktime and itunes.
(Note, if you only want to have your quicktime play M2TS, you can use a quicktime player plugin named Perilan).
convert M2TS to iPad, iPhone, Apple TV or other digital devices:
As we have already know, M2TS is not a common video file format which only limit its widely-usage in the field of AVCHD camcorder recording. There are few digital devices that support directly .M2TS file extension video by default. To playback the M2TS file on iPad, iPhone or Apple TV, the only way is to convert M2TS to other general HD video format, such as M2TS to MOV or MP4.