How to Free Edit and Import Canon MOD&MOV& AVCHD Video to iMovie 11 on Mac Lion?

"I have iMovie 11, and am on a 12" Powerbook G4 running on OS X 10.7. I recently purchased the Canon HF10 video camera, and I cannot import the video files into iMovie. I have the camera plugged in, but When I check out the two drives on my desktop, I see nothing vaguely looking like a video file.Some help would really be appreciated. Thank you!"

Now, iMovie`11 is designed to work with a wide range of video recording devices, including camcorders, digital still cameras, iPhone 4, iPod nano (5th generation), and iPod touch (4th generation). Of course, iMovie`11 still works well with most Mini DV tape-based camcorders using DV and HDV formats, which use a FireWire cable (also known as IEEE 1394 or i.Link) to transfer video.

Tips: As a part of iLife`11, iMovie`11 makes it easy to turn your home videos into your all-time favorite films.and iMovie`11 introduces some new tools that make it easy for just about anyone to take advantage of expert-level effects that would have been difficult or impossible for novices to achieve before.

As mentioned above, iMovie`11 just worked out perfectly with camera video, however, not all camcorder movie can be imported to iMovie 11 natively, such as Canon camera, it can record many kinds of video, like, MOV, MOD, MPEG-2, AVI, MVI, AVCHD, but not all can be import to iMovie 11 directly for editing.

Fortunately,Canon Video to iMovie Converter Mac will help you out, it not only convert all Canon MOV, MOD, MPEG-2, AVI, MVI, AVCHD video formats to free iMovie`08/09/11 DV, MOV, MPEG-2, MP4 but also export iMovie`11 videos to other video formats on Mac os x Lion.

Canon Video Converter Mac also can act as Canon Video Editor Mac which allows you to edit the MOV, MOD, MPEG-2, AVI, MVI, AVCHD at ease with rich video editing features like: video trimming, cutting, splitting, joining/merging video. With it, you can also adjust video bright, contrast, saturation, set video resolution, encoder, frame rate, bitrate, crop video to remove unwanted video and merge several video files into one.

Tips: if you are a Windows user, just go to Video Converter which can help you import canon video to windows movie maker etc software for editing.

Import Canon Video to iMovie:
1.After installing Canon Video Converter Mac, clicking “Add File” button to choose my hard drive to add my MTS file.
2.Click “Profile Drop-down list” format column, click iMovie-MP4 etc. The Canon Video to iMovie Converter Mac will do the conversion of AVCHD to iMovie MP4 with high quality.
3.Set the output path to specify a location for the converted file. The last step is to start conversion with fast speed for getting iMovie`s native format with excellent quality.