Tuesday, February 28, 2012

How to convert Canon Vixia camcorder video to AIC for iMovie

Canon Vixia lines are among the finest camcorders around, but sometimes it makes you scratching your head when you try to import the video and edit it in iMovie, it’s because some of the Vixia models capture movies in h.264 format, a wonderful codec for watching, but not so good for editing, the compression method used by h.264 requires immense processing power that makes it nearly impossible for editing in iMovie. The best way to edit a canon Vixia video in iMovie is to convert the video to something else, sure it’s going to consume more storage spaces, but it will save you a lot of frustrations.
The best video format for iMovie goes to apple intermediate codec, the .AIC file format.
This is the guide about how to convert canon Vixia video to AIC for editing in iMovie.
First download canon Vixia video converter for mac, the software supports to convert canon Vixia videos to AIC format, also various output video formats are supported, but AIC is the best for editing in iMovie.

canon vixia to imoive

Import canon Vixia videos, set output profile as AIC.

set output video format as AIC

Convert canon Vixia videos to AIC format for editing in iMovie
Now you can fully enjoy the mojo of iMovie with your new video.

canon vixia to imoive

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