General Discussion - Tricks for Smoothly Editing Canon XA10 AVCHD in iMovie tutubebe99 - Tue Jun 12, 2012 6:36 pm Post subject: Tricks for Smoothly Editing Canon XA10 AVCHD in iMovie
Tricks for Smoothly Editing Canon XA10 AVCHD in iMovie
Summary: Here it mainly shows you an easy way on how to import Canon XA10 AVCHD to iMovie for smoothly editing on Mac by transcoding the Canon XA10 to iMovie native format- Apple InterMediate Codec encoded MOV format.
As one of the excellent camcorders produced by Canon, the XA10 camcorder has been designed for situations where mobility is critical while shooting. The professional level model is able to record Full HD 1080p using an AVCHD codec in MTS format. MTS is a highly compressed format and it's not easy to use as it's not well supported by many editing software, such as the iMovie, you may encounter many problems when you want to import the Canon XA10 video clips to iMovie for editing, you could not import AVCHD files or these MTS files are not processed smoothly.
In order to import and edit Canon XA10 MTS files in iMovie without crashing problem and avoid rendering, you'd better transfer the Canon XA10 AVCHD footages to iMovie native format, say, Apple InterMediate Codec encoded MOV format. The following passage guides you how to convert Canon XA10 MTS files footages to AIC MOV for iMovie. This will help you import the file correctly and saving the rendering time.
The Mac Canon MTS to iMovie Converter is an easy to use yet professional AVCHD Converter on Mac OS X which can not only transcode Canon VIXIA AVCHD MTS files to aic MOV videos for Mac editing, but also provide simple video editing functions for you. Besides, the program can also convert HD videos from HD camcorders or DVs (like JVC, Panasonic, Sony and Cannon) for editing in Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Pro X, Final Cut Express, iMovie, Avid, Adobe Premiere etc.
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Guide- Convert/Ingest Canon XA10 MTS files to iMovie for editing smoothly on Mac
Step 2. Click the format bar, and move mouse cursor to iMovie and Final Cut Express -> Apple InterMediate Codec (AIC) (*.mov).
Step 3. Click "Convert" button to start transcoding Canon XA10 AVCHD MTS files to AIC MOV for iMovie under Mac OS.
Some more helpful features of the Mac Canon Video Converter for iMovie:
Settings- click to set video resolution(1920×1080/1440×1080/1280×720/720×480), bitrate(from 1Mbps to 20Mbps), frame rate (24p/30p)
Editor (next to "Add" icon)- click to set deinterlace, denoise, mute, volume up, trim, crop, etc.
So there you have it. Pretty simple. After the workflow, you can go to the output folder to find the converted video files. Now you are free to import/edit Canon XA10 AVCHD MTS footages in iMovie under Mac without problems.
