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Wednesday, November 8, 2017

Edit Canon EOS M100 MP4 with iMovie

The EOS M100 is Canon's newest entry-level mirrorless ILC model. Despite being appreciably smaller (and cheaper) than its higher-end M5 and M6 siblings, it comes with the same 24MP APS-C sensor equipped with excellent Dual Pixel autofocus. It also has Canon's latest DIGIC 7 processor, as well as Wi-Fi with NFC and Bluetooth for connectivity.

The camera can shot 1080p, 720p and 480p video in MP4 format with H.264 compression codec. When the shooting is completed, for Mac users who are looking for a professional but simple to use editing software to turn your camera video into great work, iMovie can be your first choice. How about the workflow of Canon EOS M100 MP4 video with iMovie?

Media compatibility of Canon EOS M100 MP4 with iMovie

From iMovie supported file formats, we can see that iMovie can native import the H.264 video shot with Canon EOS M100 camera. However, if you try to direct edit H.264 with iMovie, you won't get a good editing performance. The main reason is that H.264 is a distribution-oriented formats, it is very CPU intensive to work with. If you wish to get a high quality and high performance editing workflow, we highly recommend you to encode H.264 to iMovie's most favorable editing codec - Apple Intermediate Codec. It was used because it was less processor intensive as the compression scheme did not need the next frame to be displayed.

Encode Canon EOS M100 MP4 to iMovie

If you are looking for a simple to use application to get the job completed, we highly recommend Pavtube Video Converter for Mac to you. The program has full importing support for the 1080p, 720p and 480p H.264 MP4 video recorded with Canon EOS M100. Thanks to its batch conversion mode, you can load multiple EOS M100 MP4 video into the application at one time for conversion to save your precious time.

Just load the camera video into the application, set iMovie most preferable Apple Intermediate Codec to output, then hit right-bottom convert button to begin the conversion process.

Edit Canon EOS M100 MP4 video

Before loading Canon EOS M100 MP4 video into the iMovie, you can also complete some basic video editing work with the program's built-in editing options. You can trim unwanted video segments from the video, crop video to remove the black bars, add transparent text watermark, apply special rendering effects, insert external srt/ass/ssa subtitles, etc.

Step by Step to Transcode Canon EOS M100 MP4 to AIC for iMovie Editing

Step 1: Load Canon EOS M100 MP4 video.

Download the free trial version of the program. Launch it on your computer. Click "File" menu and select "Add Video/Audio" or click the "Add Video" button on the top tool bar to import Canon EOS M100 MP4 video files into the program.

Load Canon EOS M100 MP4 video

Step 2: Choose output file format.

From "Format" drop-down option, choose iMovie best editing codec by selecting "iMovie and Final Cut Ex..." > "Apple Intermediate Codec (AIC)(*.mov).

Output iMovie supported AIC format

Step 3: Edit Canon EOS M100 MP4 videos.

By default the Edit icon is grayed out. To activate the Edit menu, you have to select an item first. When a video or movie is selected, click the pencil like Edit icon on the left top tool bar to open the video editor window, here, you can play and preview the original video and output effects. Also you can flip or rotate video, trim, crop, add watermark, apply special effect, edit audio or insert external subtitle.

Edit Canon EOS M100 MP4 video

Step 4: Start the conversion process.

After all the settings is over, go back to the main interface and hit right-bottom "Convert" button to start to convert Canon EOS M100 MP4 to iMovie best compatible Apple Intermediate Codec editing format.

When the conversion is completed, launch iMovie on your Mac computer to import converted video to iMovie for smooth editing workflow on either fast or slow Mac computer.