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

Thursday, February 9, 2012

Recover accidentally deleted photos and videos from Nikon D3000

Pictures and videos captured with Nikon d3000 are stored on a sd card, which is a type of friendly storage when it comes to deleted file recovery, SD cards work in a similar way as computers in that they don't always completely delete files until that information has been formatted. Instead, they simply mark the available space as usable again and then later write over it with new data. If new data didn’t come, then you can easily retrieve the deleted videos and photos back with proper photo recovery tool.
This is a step by step guide about how to recover deleted pictures and videos from Nikon D3000
First download photo recovery for Nikon D3000,

photo recovery for nikon d3000

Attach your Nikon D3000 to computer and run Nikon D3000 photo recovery
Select media storage, then click "scan"

photo recovery for nikon d3000

Photo recovery for Nikon D3000 will present all the photos deleted from the storage of Nikon D3000, you can set filters to specify the very photos you want to recover.

photo recovery for nikon d3000

click "recover" to bring back the accidentally deleted photos from nikon d3000
Retrieve deleted pictures in the following formats:
  • JPEG, TIFF, BMP, GIF, PNG,
  • WAV, MP3, AIFF, RPS, MIDI, M4A, M4P, AU, OGG,
  • WMA, MOV, AVI, ASF, WMV and MP4 files

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Recover deleted video from SD card

How to recover deleted video from SD card.
Once you deleted video from the SD card of your Canon Vixia camcorder, the video were not permanently erased, its storage sector were marked as "free space" and will be overwritten with new data when necessary, at this moment of time, with proper video recovery tool, you can recover the deleted video from SD card without much fuss.
Here's the guide about how to recover deleted video from SD card.

First download SD card video recovery. The software supports to recover videos in following formats:
AVI, WMV & ASF, MP4, M4V, 3GP, MOV, MPEG, DV, 3G2, M4B
sd card recovery
It also supports photo and audio file recovery.
Then connect your SD card with computer via device(digital camcorder, digital camera, android handsets...) or SD card reader.
Launch the application.

Select media storage and click scan.
sd card recovery

After scanning, the software will presents all the video files deleted from this SD card.

sd card recovery
Select video files you want to recover, you can set filters to specify certain video file
Click "recover" to recover deleted video from SD card