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Canon VIXIA HF R50 and Mac Importing issues
Topic Started: Mar 3 2014, 08:21 AM (4 Views)
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Summary: iMovie and Avid do not recognize your Canon VIXIA HF R50 for film editing? In this article, we introduce the easy solution to you.

When you got Canon Vixia HF R50, a high-quality capturing camcorder, you may feel like shooting video with it. It’s wonderful for us to use this excellent camera to record beautiful landscapes and record exciting moments. After recording, you may need to import Canon Vixia HF R50 footage to Avid/Adobe Premiere for editing, but Canon Vixia HF R50 recorded AVCHD video is not compatible with most editing software on Mac. Adobe Premiere Pro, Avid MC don’t support 1080 60p AVCHD well- it takes much time to render.

Although we understand that Avid Media Composer and Adobe Premiere Pro can import AVCHD – apparently not all flavors work well. It is not easy to import Canon Vixia HF R50 to Avid Media Composer, Premiere Pro for editing on Mac. So the best way to get the work done is to convert Canon HF R50 MTS to Avid, Adobe natively supported format on Mac OS X and then you can import the AVCHD clips into Avid MC/Adobe Premiere for smoothly editing. The below is a brief guide for beginners.

How to transcode Canon Vixia HF R50 MTS to edit in Avid Media Composer/Adobe Premiere Pro

Step 1. Download Brorsoft MTS Converter for Mac.

This professional Mac AVCHD Converter can help you convert Canon HF R50 AVCHD to Avid Media Composer, Premiere Pro compatible format effortlessly without quality loose. Besides, more output formats like Apple InterMediate Codec for iMovie/FCE, Apple ProRes for Final Cut Pro, etc are also supported.

Step 2. Click “Add Video” to load the .mts files from Canon Vixia HF R50 Camcorder to the Mac Converter.

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Step 3. Click on the Format box to select Avid Media Composer > Avid DNxHD(*.mov) as output format.

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For Adobe Premiere Pro, you can go to choose Adobe Premiere/Sony Vegas> MPEG-2(*.mpg) as the best video format for Premiere Pro. WMV, MOV formats are the good choice as well.

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Tip -Profile Settings: In case the default settings do not fit your requirement, you can click "Settings" button and enter "Profile Settings" panel to adjust video size, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate and audio channels.

Step 4. Finally click Convert button to start converting Canon Vixia HF R50 AVCHD to DNxHD for Avid; MPEG-2 for Adobe Premiere Pro with the top Canon Vixia MTS Converter on Mac OS X. After converting, you can import Canon MTS files to Adobe Premiere Pro and Avid Media Composer for editing as you want.

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