Thursday, July 4, 2013

Deinterlace and import Canon VIXIA HF G20 1080 60i AVCHD to iMovie/FCE

In order to get better importing and editing effect, you'd better deinterlace/convert Canon Vixia HF G20 1080 60i MTS video before importing to iMovie or FCE on Mac, just follow this article.


Canon VIXIA HF G20 Full HD Camcorder shoots 1920 x 1080 Full HD video at 60i, in native 24p and 30p. With the 24p frame rate option you can give your footage a cinematic look. Using Cinema-Looks Filters you can boost that film look with multiple built-in adjustable filters. The HF G20 features a Genuine Canon 10x HD Video Lens with an 8-Blade iris for more professional-looking video and stills. It has a 30.4 - 304mm (35mm equivalent) focal length. The camcorder is also equipped with a Canon HD CMOS Pro image sensor that supports improved low-light performance and a wide dynamic range.


Vixia HF G20 captures Full HD 1920x1080p videos in MPEG4 or AVCHD format. The AVCHD delivers stunning picture quality, but is not full supported by iMovie and FCE. So it is headache if you want to deinterlace and edit Canon Vixia HF G20 1080 60i MTS in iMovie or FCE. To successfully get Canon VIXIA HF20 1080i MTS files to iMovie/FCE for further editing, the best way is to transcode Canon Vixia AVCHD to iMovie/FCE most compatible format like AIC. mov.

Here we recommend you to choose the top Canon MTS to AIC Converter for mac, which can convert Canon HF G20 AVCHD recordings to AIC for editing in iMovie/FCE on Mac and keep the quality as original. Plus, 1080i videos are not perfectly readable for these video edit programs like FCP, iMovie and FCE. Thus, deinterlacing Canon 1080/60i MTS on Mac is imperative to be considered.

Steps: Deinterlace and Convert Canon Vixia HF G20 1080 60i MTS clips to iMovie or FCE.

Step 1: Install the best Canon AVCHD Converter for Mac on your Mac OS X, and run it to import your Canon Vixia HF G20 1080 60i MTS footages to it.

Tip: If you want to combine the files together, please tick the box "Merge into one" on the main interface.



Step 2: Click the Format box and select best output format on the dropdown list. You are advised to choose Apple Intermediate Codec(AIC)(*.mov) as the export.



Step 3: Click the “Settings” icon on the main interface and you’d better set the video size as 1920*1080, video frame rate as 30fps(or 25fps PAL) for importing Canon HF G20 1080i MTS to iMovie or FCE with the best quality.



Step 4: Click Edit button and you can deinterlace Canon VIXIA HF G20 1080i AVCHD file for iMovie via ticking the “Deinterlacing” box in the Video Editor interface.

Step 5: Click the "Convert" button on main interface to start converting/deinterlace Canon HF G20 1080/60i MTS recordings to AIC for editing in iMovie and FCE  immediately.

After the Canon MTS to iMovie/FCE Converter finished transcoding, you can run the iMovie or FCE to import the converted files and edit Canon Vixia HF G20 1080/60i MTS in iMovie and FCE without any rendering or incompatibility problem.

You may also learn how to convert AVCHD to ProRes 422 for FCP.

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