Canon EOS 6D, the new full-frame DSLR is the choice for those who think that the Canon 5D Mark III is too big and heavy and too expensive. The 6D features a newly-developed 20.2-megapixel full-frame CMOS sensor and an extremely wide ISO range starts at a low 100 up to 25,600. On video the EOS 6D offers full manual control over exposure and audio levels while recording in full HD 1080p at 30/25/24 fps or 720p at 60/50/30/25 fps.
If you’ve been the Canon DSLR users, you will know what the limitations of the video format the Canons DSLRs record in would be, including this new Canon EOS 6D. When you try to put Canon EOS 6D H.264 MOV files to iMovie for editing, you will encounter more or less problems. Here we suggest you to transcode Canon EOS 6D H.264 files to AIC for iMovie.
Why transcode?
Firstly we’ll get the “Why” out of the way. With your original H.264 files imported into a timeline in iMovie (or other NLE), you’ll already have noticed they don’t play smoothly, let alone sometimes iMovie cannot ingest the H.264 video files. Often frames are held while the audio plays ahead, chunks of frames are skipped and syncing any movement or action is generally a nightmare. Why does it do this? Well the H.264 codec is intended for playing back video for the end user. This means that like most video codecs it uses some fancy tricks to minimize file size – one of these tricks is that it doesn’t actually store the information for each frame. For editing, however, this is a nightmare. So we need to transcode Canon EOS 6D H.264 files to iMovie compatible codec AIC.
How to transcode?
Firstly, download and install the Mac H.264 MOV to AIC Converter, then run it.
Then, click on “Add Files”, and browse your files the definite folder; select all the .MOV files you wanna convert.
Next, you will need to choose a target format. Hit the Format bar to select iMovie and Final Cut Express > Apple Intermediate Codec(AIC) (*.mov). In the Profile Settings window, you can adjust the video and audio parameters if needed. Recommended video, audio settings are presented as below.
When that’s done, click Convert button to start converting Canon EOS 6D MOV to AIC for iMovie on Mac OS X.
When the conversion task is done, you can get the resulted video via clicking Open icon. You can effortlessly import Canon EOS 6D H.264 MOV to iMovie for further editing.
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