AVCHD is short for "Advanced Video Codec High Definition", it is the newest HD format to be released for inexpensive HD video production. And AVCHD (AVC-HD, AVC HD) video is recorded by AVCHD camcorder such as Canon VIXIA HG20, Sony HDR-UX5, Panasonic HDC-SD1 etc using the MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 video compression codec.

AVCHD Videos usually memory on recordable DVD discs, memory cards and hard disk drives. And AVCHD specification support all three high definition formats: 1080i, 1080p and 720p.

If someone used to have AVC HD videos, he would be frustrated that there are so little devices which support AVCHD video. But Xilisoft HD Video Converter can help you convert HD video formats such as AVCHD (mts, m2ts), H.264/AVC, MKV, MPEG-2 (ts), DivX, HD WMV, MPEG-4 and Quick Time to suit your various devices like iPod, PSP.

The belowed tips will tell you how to step by step convert AVCHD to SD video with the powerful HD video converter software.

1. Free download Xilisoft HD Video Converter software, install and launch.

2. Add the HD files from the "File" menu in batches or add folder.

3. Choose the proper output destination and the target video format.

4. Click "Convert" button! After a few minutes waiting, you can find playing the converted any video files on your any portable music devices like PSP , iPhone is a piece of cake.

Tips 1: With auto detection of multi-core CPU, you can append many tasks at one time and the HD video converter will convert them one by one for saving your time.

Tips 2: Xilisoft HD Video Converter software provides various HD formats including AVCHD (mts, m2ts), MKV, HD ASF, HD AVI, H.264/AVC, HD Quick Time, HD MPEG-4, and HD WMV for you to choose. Also, you can make more detailed settings such as Bitrate, Sample rate, Zoom, etc. for every profile.

Tips 3: As powerful HD converter software, it can capture pictures from videos by setting duration and capture interval, and save them as JPG, GIF, BMP, PNG files.

Easy-to-handle interface and super high HD conversion speed will make the whole AVCHD movie to SD video conversion much easier and faster.