How do I import Canon Vixia camcorder to Mac iMovie

Canon has good reputation with its Vixia series camcorders, which meets people’s high demand on video quality. Howvever, some turns to be frustrated, if they can’t transfer or get Canon Vixia video on Mac or can’t edit those hd shootings in iMovie. Canon Vixia Video Converter for Mac came out to take the hassle of incompatible formats away. It can support almost any Canon Vixia HD camcorder like those models:

Canon VIXIA HF M31 Canon VIXIA HF S11 Canon VIXIA HF M40
Canon VIXIA HF M32 Canon VIXIA HF R11 Canon VIXIA HF G10
Canon VIXIA HF M30 Canon VIXIA HF R100 Canon VIXIA HF S30…..

Why you need the third-party program?
To answer the question, we should firstly get to know the true reason that the Canon Vixia video can’t be accepted by Mac.
The Canon Vixia camcorder video codec is different from video codec of Mac series software. As we know that Mac programs like QuickTime, iMovie, FCP has better compability with MPEG4 or H.264 codec. So the easy way is to convert the original M2TS/MTS file format to Mac formats one. The Canon AVCHD Video Converter for Mac should be your good helper, for the Canon Vixia camcorder MPEG-4 AVC codecs can be well supported by the program.

It convert Canon VIXIA video to Mac MOV, MP4, AVI, 3GP, MPEG-4 for Mac so that you can import these AVCHD MTS/M2TS files to iMovie’11, iTunes, iDVD, FCPX, FCE etc for editing. Besides, this Canon VIXIA Video Converter for Mac also has powerful editing function like trim video length, crop video, set video brightness, contrast, and saturation, and customize video/audio output settings, etc.

Supposed you don’t want to convert the orginal files, but cut the its time-length or combine multiple files, you can choose the Canon Video Editing for Mac

Easy tutorial for you to transfer video from canon vixia to mac:

1: Import Canon VIXIA HF Video to Mac AVCHD Converter

Firstly, you need to copy your Canon VIXIA video to Mac and launch AVCHD Converter for Mac, then you can click “Add File” to upload your AVCHD MTS files on Mac.

2: Set Output Video Format for Mac

Click “Profile” to open the Profile drop-up list to select MOV, or MP4 as output video format for Mac OS.

3: Convert Canon VIXIA Video to Mac
Click “Start” button to convert Canon AVCHD MTS files for Mac.
After conversion finished, you can edit your converted MTS, M2TS files with iMovie, FCP, FCE, iDVD, etc as you like.