I recently purchased the Canon Vixia HSF10 and importing the movies taken with it is proving to be a bit of a headache. I've managed to import the AVCHD clips into iMovie, I only get an option for facetime camera and not my Vixia. Please help!

If you are a Canon Vixia HF S10 user, have you ever met any importing or editing problem of its generated AVCHD video files? According to above HF S10 user’s post, it’s easy to get the info that this user met the trouble in transferring AVCHD from Canon Vixia HF S10 to iMovie'11. Actually, the AVCHD is highly compressed and not the iMovie friendly video format, but the Apple InterMediate Codec MOV format is. To get rid of the headache, transcoding AVCHD to AIC MOV for iMovie keeping original quality is the best and easy solution.

In that case, a MTS/M2TS Converter for Mac is the key. Well, this MTS to iMovie Converter will be your best choice for the reason that it is professional in converting AVCHD files to Apple Intermediate Codec(AIC), the most compatible format for iMovie on Mac OS X without quality loss. Besides, it also supports merging several MTS/M2TS files for you.

Step 1: Download and install the Mac AVCHD to MOV Converter for iMoive on your Apple computer and then launch the program to add Canon HF S10 MTS/M2TS videos to it.

Step 2: Click on Format > iMovie and Final Cut Express > Apple Intermediate Codec(AIC) (*.mov), the iMovie native support format. Afterwards, set the output folder as you like or just keep the default one.

Step 3: Click the “Settings” icon and you’d better set the video frame rate as 30fps30fps/29.97fps, video size as 1920*1080 for importing AVCHD from Canon Vixia HF S10 to iMovie'11 with best quality.

Step 4: Click the “Convert” button; it will start convert Canon MTS to AIC MOV for iMoive on Mac OS X immediately. You can find the process in the “Conversion” interface.

After the MTS to AIC (MOV) conversion on Mac, you can get footages from Canon HF S10 into iMovie'11 on Mac for editing without any problem.

Tips:
1. If you are shooting at the default in 1080i mode, this Mac MTS Converter pro can help you to deinterlace your 1080i videos automatically because Deinterlacing has been chosen as default.

2. If you have other Mac tools like FCP, iMovie, FCE, this Mac AVCHD Converter will also be your best helper in converting AVCHD to ProRes 422 for FCP, MPEG-2 for Adobe Premiere Pro, DNxHD for Avid Media Composer, AIC for FCE, etc in addition to helping you import video file from Canon HF S10 to iMovie'11.

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