Canon Cameras Column-Transcode HF S100 AVCHD to ProRes for FCP

Canon Cameras Column-Transcode HF S100 AVCHD to ProRes for FCP

Not long ago, I got a camcorder-Canon Vixia HF S100, it's an excellent camcorder which gives me high quality videos. I like easy editing Canon Vixia HF S100 recorded videos with Final Cut Pro for family movies like interesting events, cats, building a snowman and so on. But the first time when I want to import AVCHD videos to Final Cut Pro for editing, I encountered some problems, I can't import Canon Vixia HF S100 AVCHD to Final Cut Pro. One of my friends told me FCP doesn't support Canon HF S100 AVCHD well. Finally I found Pavtube Video Converter for Mac which is the best Canon AVCHD files Transcode to transcode Canon HF S100 AVCHD Videos to Apple ProRes 422 perfectly compatible with FCP.

If you have the same problem about editing Canon HF S100 AVCHD Videos in Final Cut Pro, you may follow the step-by-step guide.

Step 1. Load Canon HF S100 AVCHD videos to Pavtube Mac AVCHD to Final Cut Pro Converter.


Just connect Canon HF S100 to iMac with USB cable, and copy the files to hard drive. Run Pavtube Canon AVCHD Video Converter for Mac as the best Canon AVCHD to FCP Converter, and click the "Add" button to load 1920×1080 .mts videos.

Step 2. Choose the best output video format for editing in FCP.
Clock the format column and choose the Final Cut Pro > Apple ProRes 422 (*.mov). It's the best video format for FCP.

Step 3. If you want to adjust the output videos' parameters, you can click settings button to change the Size, the Bitrate, and the Codec for getting the perfect effects.


Step 4. If you want to edit the video before convert Canon HF S100 AVCHD to FCP MOV format, Pavtube Video Converter for Mac offers easy but useful edit function as shows below.

Step 5.Click "Convert" button to transcode Canon HF S100 AVCHD to ProRes 422 for FCP editing on Mac OS X Lion.

pavtube.com/guide/canon-avchd-converter-for-fcp-import-canon-mts-m2ts-files-to-fcp.html

You can click "Edit" button to perform edit functions such as crop, trim, flip, effect, watermark and audio replace. To eliminate interlacing effect, simply check Deinterlacing box under Effect tab.

More Tricks for Canon Camera files transcode, click Pavtube Canon Column:

Canon Vixia MTS to Windows Movie Maker Converter

Canon Vixia AVCHD MTS to iMovie

How to convert MXF to H.264 for Premiere Pro?

. . . . . .

Tips:

Pavtube iMedia Converter for Mac can convert 1080p cameras/camcorders footages to editable HD video formats for non-linear editing software like iMovie, Final Cut Express, Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Studio, Avid, Adobe Premiere etc. The HD footage can be compressed to SD video clips for storage when you wanna save storage space.

Canon EOS 6D Mac: Make Canon 6D H.264 MOV Editable in iMovie/FCE

Summary: In this article, you will know how to import Canon EOS 6D H.264 1080p/1080i recordings to iMovie or Final Cut Express on Mac Mountain Lion 10.8, and edit with best AIC codec.

The EOS 6D is built around a new Canon CMOS sensor, which offers a pixel count of 20.2MP (compared to the D600 and A99's 24MP, or the 5D Mark III's 22MP). In concert with the DIGIC 5+ processor it offers a standard ISO range of 100-25600, expandable down to 50 and up to 102,400.

What's the best format for use in editing Canon EOS 6D MOV in iMovie and Final Cut Express? How to import Canon EOS 6D MOV to iMovie or Final Cut Express for smooth editing? You may have the need to edit Canon 6D MOV video in iMovie and FCE. From Apple forum we know that H.264 MOV is not a suitable editing format for iMovie and Final Cut Express, you are suggested to transocde Canon EOS 6D MOV to AIC (Apple Intermediate Codec), the favorite editing codec of iMovie and Final Cut Express in advance. The Apple Intermediate Codec (AIC) does not use temporal compression, so every frame can be decoded and displayed immediately without first decoding other frames. The drawback of this codec is that it requires much more bandwidth and hard drive storage space. The following are steps for you to convert Canon EOS 6D media natively to iMovie/FCE compatible format editing.

[*] Read More: Canon Column - Canon Cameras Videos Transcode Solution

[*] Read More: Final Cut Pro not compatible with Canon EOS 6D H.264 MOV file on Mac?

Guide: How to transcode Canon EOS 6D MOV to iMovie or Final Cut Express for editing?

Step 1: Run Pavtube Canon EOS Files Converter and load H.264 MOV clips to it. You can click either "Add Video" button or "Add from folder" button to load source MOV files.

Tips: If you want to combine the loaded MOV clips into one file, simply tick off the checkbox before "Merge into one file".

Step 2: Select "Apple InterMediate Codec (AIC) (*.mov)" as target format

In order to convert Canon recordings to AIC for use in iMovie or Final Cut Express, simply hit "Format" menu and follow "iMovie and Final Cut Express" > "Apple InterMediate Codec (AIC) (*.mov)".

Profile Settings:

Step 3: Start H.264 MOV to AIC Conversion.

Click the big button "Convert" to start Canon EOS 6D H.264 MOV to AIC MOV Conversion. As soon as the conversion is completed, you are able to click "Open" button to get the generated AIC MOV files for use in iMovie or Final Cut Express.

Step 4: Import converted Canon EOS 6D MOV to iMovie or Final Cut Express

Launch iMovie or Final Cut Express, and then choose File > Import > Movies to import the converted Canon EOS 6D MOV to iMovie or Final Cut Express for further editing. You can follow this tutorial How to Import video files, projects to iMovie 8/9/11?

You may also want to burn your video files from iMovie/FCE to DVD disc or ISO files for backup or storage, You can refer to this article: How to Free Burn projects from Final Cut Pro to DVD on Mac? Free Pavtube DVD Creator for Mac is your best choice, which is a great Free DVD burning Mac software.

PS. If you have any problem, pls contact with to get more information. You also can leave a message on Pavtube Community or Pavtube Facebook, we will answer your questions as soon as possilble.

Convert Sony PMW-320 MXF to AIC MOV for editing in iMovie 8/9/11

Summary:In this post, you can learn the best way and tools for importing and editing Sony PMW-320 MXF in iMovie 8/9/11.

Sony is pleased to announce the introduction of the new PMW-320 XDCAM EX Camcorder. This new shoulder mount camcorder joins the award-winning XDCAM EX product family of professional Solid State Recording acquisition tools. This new camcorder inherits all of the advanced creative recording features of the successful PMW-EX1, PMW-EX1R, PMW-EX3 and the PMW-350 camcorders, and also offers several enhancements such as improved low light capability as well as SD recording as a standard feature.

We all know that the recordings' format of Sony PMW-320 is the MXF which delivers stunning picture quality. However, if you want to deinterlace and edit Sony PMW-320 MXF in iMovie 8/9/11, you will meet some problems. The problems lie in that iMovie 8/9/11 cannot support the original MXF footages from PMW-320. It is a common sense that the most compatible format for iMovie 8/9/11 is Apple Intermediate Codec(AIC)(*.mov). So the first problem you have to solve is to deinterlace/transcode Sony PMW-320 MXF to AIC the most compatible codec which is specially designed for editing in iMovie 8/9/11.

Here we recommend you to choose a top MXF to AIC Converter for mac to transfer these recordings for iMovie 8/9/11 editing.

pavtube.com/mxf-converter-mac/

Steps for deinterlace Sony PMW-320 MXF clips to iMovie 8/9/11.

pavtube.com/guide/import-convert-sony-xdcam-files-to-imovie-for-editing-with-aic-codec.html

Step 1: Install the top Sony MXF Converter for Mac on your Mac OS X, and run it to import your Sony PMW-320 1080p MXF footages to it. Tip: If you want to combine the files together, please tick the box "Merge into one" on the main interface.

Step 2: Click the Format box and select best output format on the dropdown list. You are advised to choose Apple Intermediate Codec(AIC)(*.mov) as the export.

Step 3: Click the “Settings” icon on the main interface and you’d better set the video size as 1920*1080, video frame rate as 30fps(or 25fps PAL) for importing Sony PMW-320 MXF to iMovie 8/9/11 with the best quality.

Step 4: Click the Arrow button on main interface to start converting/deinterlace Sony PMW-320 MXF clips to AIC video immediately.

After the Sony PMW-320 MXF to AIC converter finished transcoding, you can run the iMovie 8/9/11 to import the converted files and edit them in it without any rendering or incompatibility problem.

If you need to burn MXF to DVD disc/ISO/folder on Mac, you can try Pavtube DVD Creator for Mac.

Buy One Get Another Free?! Yes, just join Pavtube's Special Offers to get the promotion.

pavtube.com/special-offer.html

Find more related tutorial on MXF Columnand Sony Column.

pavtube.com/mxf-to-mac.html

pavtube.com/edit-play-sony-camera-videos.html