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"Vixia HV30 HDV camera help! Mac and iMovie? I cant get my vixia HD30 HDV canon camera to import any video to my iMovie. ive set the video type to HD-1080i-30 but still nothing. any ideas on how to fix this?"
"I cannot get my mac to recognize my new Canon Vixia hf200 video camera. How do I get it to import my videos? I have a mac tiger, 10.4. My imovie is '07. The Canon is HD and connects through USB."

As Canon VIXIA HF series camcorders becoming more and more popular among people, you may have problem of uploading Canon VIXIA HF video to iMovie, or Mac. Because some of Canon VIXIA camcorders cannot be compatible with iMovie, iMovie' 08, iMovie' 09, such as Canon VIXIA HF200, VIXIA HV30, VIXIA HFS100, etc. Or even though Canon VIXIA camcorders can be compatible with iMovie or Mac, but sometimes video off Canon VIXIA series is not recognized by iMovie due to different aspect ratio or video codec.

If you cannot import Canon VIXIA video like Canon VIXIA HV30, VIXIA HF200, VIXIA HF S100, etc to iMovie for editing, you need a powerful Canon VIXIA to iMovie Converter to convert Canon VIXIA AVCHD video to MOV, MP4, DV for iMovie firstly, then you can import them to iMovie to share or edit.

Doremisoft Canon VIXIA to iMovie Converter is designed for Mac users to convert camcorder video like AVCHD MTS/M2TS to MOV, MP4, DV for iMovie and Mac. It also support converting video such as MOD, TOD, MKV, etc to Mac, iPad, iPod, iPhone, PSP, Blackberry, iDVD , FCP, FCE, etc.

But how to transfer Canon VIXIA video to iMovie? Here, quick guide for you to follow to convert Canon AVCHD MTS, M2TS files to iMovie step by step:

Step1: Install and Launch Doremisoft AVCHD Converter for Mac

Step2: Import Canon VIXIA Video
Click "Add File" to input your Canon VIXIA AVCHD MTS files to Mac AVCHD Video Converter. You can upload several videos one time.

Step3: Set Output Video Format for iMovie
Click "Profile" to open the Profile drop-up list to select MOV, MP4 or DV as output video format for iMovie.

Step4: Convert Canon VIXIA Video to iMovie
Click "Start" button to convert Canon VIXIA AVCHD files to iMovie. After conversion finished, you can edit your converted Canon VIXIA videos with iMovie as you like.

Related: How to Get AVCHD MTS/M2TS, MOD Files off HD Camcorder to Mac, iMovie, FCP?
How to Convert and Import Sony HDR Series Video to Mac, iMovie?

Recording daily life and interesting things with a HD camcorder becomes a trend for our people. They like to share these digital camcorder videos on Mac or PC with family and friends. However, selecting a good digital camcorder for Mac is not easy for green hand. Maybe more tips need paying attention, for example, the types of your camcorder and Mac, the version of iMovie on Mac, Mac and PC compability with digital camcorder and so on.

iMovie has been a Mac OS X only application bundled in the iLife suite of Macintosh applications since iMovie3. From 2007 to 2010, Apple developed iMovie to iMovie' 08, iMovie' 09, and iMovie for iPhone and iPod Touch. Luckily, iMovie' 08, iMovie' 09 are designed to work with a wide range of digital video devices and formats, including tape-based(use a FireWire cable, also known as IEEE 1394 or i.Link) and the latest tapeless camcorders that record to flash memory, a hard disk drive(HDD), or DVD media.

A list of Digital Camcorders Compatible with iMovie' 08, iMovie' 09 on Mac OS X
NTSC Camcorders(a video format used in North America, Central America, Japan, and parts of South America)
Canon: DC20, DC50, DC220, DC230, FS10, FS11, FS100, HF10, HF11, HF100, HG10, HG20, HG21, HR10.
JVC: GZ-HD10, GZ-HD30, GZ-HD40, GZ-MG330, GZ-MG67, GZ-MG255, GZ-MG555U, GZ-MG505U.
Panasonic: HDC-DX1, HDC-SD5, HDC-SD9, HDC-SD20, HDC-SD200, HDC-HS9, HDC-HS20, HDC-HS100, HDC-HS200, HDC-HS300, HDC-SX5, SDR-H50, SDR-H60, SDR-H200, SDR-S10
Sony: HDR-CX11, HDR-CX12, HDR-SR1, HDR-SR7, HDR-SR11, HDR-TG1, DCR-SR82, DCR-SR200, DCR-DVD308, DCR-DVD508, DCR-DVD403.
PAL Camcorders(a video format used in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, most of Asia, and parts of South America)
Canon: DC50E, DC220E, DC330E, FS10E, FS100E, HF11E, HF100E, HG10E, HG20E, HG21E.
JVC: GZ-HD10KR, GZ-HD30, GZ-HD40, GZ-MG255, GZ-MG67, GZ-MG155, GZ-MG330.
Panasonic: HDC-DX1, HDC-SD9, HDC-SD200, HDC-TM20, HDC-TM300, HDC-HS20, HDC-HS200, HDC-HS300, SDR-H79, SDR-H60, SDR-S15, SDR-S26.
Sony: DCR-DVD908E, HDR-CX11E, HDR-CX12, HDR-SR1E, DCR-SR5E, HDR-SR12E, HDR-TG1E, HDR-CX7E, HDR-UX20E, DCR-SR82E, DCR-SR100E, DCR-SR300E.

Although iMovie' 08, iMovie' 09 on Mac OS work with most of HD digital camcorders using MPEG-2 (standard definition), MPEG-4, AVCHD, and H.264 formats, not all tapeless camcorders are compatible with iMovie' 08, iMovie '09 because of the wide range of media types and the different ways manufacturers store video on these media types.

How to fix it? To meet people editing AVCHD, MOD files with iMovie, enjoying HD camcorder video on Mac, a powerful HD Video Converter for Mac is specially designed for people who need to convert AVCHD MTS/M2TS, MOD, TS, TOD, MKV files to iMovie MP4, MOV, DV for better editing. Besides, that Mac HD Converter is also the very choice to convert HD video like TP, TRP, M5S, TOD, MPEG2 HD, MPEG4 HD, MOV HD, WMV HD, AVI HD to Mac application: iTunes, iDVD, FCP, FCE, etc.

Related: Click here to see more info of AVCHD Converter for Mac for people to convert AVCHD files to Mac iMovie, iPod, iPad, iPhones, PSP, BlackBerry, Zune and other handy device.

How to Convert AVCHD MTS/M2TS to Mac formats?

Import flip video to iMovie and edit flip video

Why choose Mac Flip Video Converter for import flip video to iMovie?

If you recorded a few video clips with the Flip Mino or Flip Ultra, and when you tried to import the video files from flip video camcorder to into iMovie or tried to edit the flip videos, only to find out that you couldn't. Apparently, you're not alone, because you'll find there are plenty of other people with the same problem.

First:Flip video's built-in software Flipshare can combine clips or editing flip videos,but the editing function is so less for the flip users.

Second:iMovie has different versions, each version has more or less difference, the video formats they can support has its limitation, it only supports mov, dv, hdv,MPEG4, etc. But for the flip camcorder(include the Flip Ultra, the Flip Ultra HD, the Flip video Mino, and the Flip video Mino HD) just produce flip video in mp4 or avi format, avi flip video can't recognized by iMovie, so converting flip avi to the formats compatible for iMovie, you can import your flip file to iMovie without any difficulties.

With all the problems above,what can we do to import flip video to iMovie?-Introduce a best flip video to iMovie converter for mac,which can let you import your flip video to iMovie without any difficulties

Mac flip to iMovie converter is a program specially designed to make Flip Mino and Flip Ultra work well with iMovie, iTunes and QuickTime, it can convert flip video to various common formats like mpeg4, mpeg2, mov, dv that compatible with the iMovie, mov for QuickTime.

Edit flip video in iMovie - Import flip to iMovie and edit flip video iMovie.

Part one: How to import flip video to iMovieHD/ iMovie 08 /iMovie 09 with mac flip to iMovie converter.

Step 1.Free download,install and run flip to iMovie converter

Step 2.Set an output format

Choose 'MPEG-4' for iMovie 09, iMovie09 supports the most popular video formats like AVCHD and MPEG4, and even the new iFrame video format.
Choose 'MPEG-2' for iMovie08, iMovie08 works with many tapeless camcorders that record to flash memory, HDD,or DVD media.
Choose 'DV' for iMovie HD."
Step 3.Set a destination for the converted flip video
Click the "Open" button in the main interface of Flip Video to iMovide Converter,and the choose the destination as you want.
Import flip video to iMovide with Flip Video to iMovide converter

Step 4.Step5:Start the conversion
Click "convert" button to start converting flip video to iMovie with mac flip to iMovie converter.

Part two: Edit flip video on iMovie
Now your flip videos have been converted to iMovie supported video formats. Launch your iMovie and follow the steps below to edit your flip videos:

Step 1.Trim video length
You are able to get any part of the source Flip to iMovie converter for mac by specifying the exactstart and the end time by dragging the slider bars. Thus, when you are trying to convert flip video on mac, you could casually limit the video or audio film's length according to your own will.

Step 2.Crop video
Select one video clip, click "Edit"->"Effect" and click on the Crop button to crop it.

Step 3.Adjust video
Click "Edit"->"Effect",and set the brightness,saturation,contrast as you like.You can also set special video effects including old film,grayand emboss to adjust flip video.

Tips:
1. This flip to iMovie converter mac support batch conversion to save your time and trouble, you can load many flip files at the same time, besides it can merge your separated flip files into a succesive one by click 'Merge into one flie'button.
2. Flip to iMovie converter supports instant preview both input and output video effect, it provides two priview windows for you to watch what you have modified, in addition, interesting pictures can be captured from playing video.