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.

Import Canon EOS 7D MOV DSLR Camera Video to HP TouchPad MPEG-4 Tablets on Mac Lion

The EOS 7D is an 18.0 effective megapixel APS-C crop CMOS DSLR camera of Canon. It features 19 point auto-focus system, movie mode, built-in Speedlite transmitter and Dual DIGIC 4 Image Processors, capturing tremendous images at up to ISO 12800 and speeds of up to 8 fps.

HP TouchPad-the strongest competitor of Apple iPad 2 has come out with 9.7-inch capacitive multi-touch screen (1024x 768 resolutions), web surfing, news reading, data inquiring and online chatting etc powerful function. But can HP TouchPad play all video and audio formats? The Video and Audio Formats that HP TouchPad supported is including: MPEG-4, H.263, H.264, DRM-free MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, AMR, QCELP, WAV.

The EOS 7D offers three recording sizes for video Full HD Video: captured at 1920 x 1080 resolution at 30p (29.97), 24p (23.976) or 25p frames per second, for up to 4GB per clip. Movies are saved as .MOV files and can be viewed in Full HD with HDMI output. Other recording sizes include HD at 1280 x 720 (50p / 60p (59.94) fps) or SD/VGA at 640 x 480 (50p / 60p (59.94) fps).

Obviously, EOS 7D MOV video cannot be natively accepted by HP TouchPad. However, if you have a third part program, like video converter, it will be easy for your to play EOS 7D MOV video on HP TouchPad easily.

Video converter can act as EOS 7D MOV to HP TouchPad converter which supports convert and import MOV movie from Canon EOS 7D DSLR camera to HP TouchPad supported video and audio formats: MPEG-4, H.264, MP3, AAC, WAV etc, then you can play and share the Canon EOS video on HP TouchPad easily.

If you are a Mac user, just go to Video Converter Mac Lion software.

Step-by-step Guide on How to Convert EOS 7D MOV files to to MP4 H.264 for HP TouchPad:


Step 1: Download and Run Canon EOS 7D MOV Video Converter on your computer, and then add your MOV video files into this program. (Tip: Batch convert supports and to convert and join MOV files into one is also supported.)
Step 2: Choose the appropriate output format for HP TouchPad
Click on “Profile drop-down list Step 3: Convert Canon MOV to H.264 MP4 for HP TouchPad by clicking on “Start” on the main interface.
Step 4: Copy the converted files onto your HP TouchPad after connecting the computer to your TouchPad via a USB cable. Meanwhile, you are able to upload and save all the video or movie files to Box using the app Box so that you can share them online. And it is also a good way to save the TouchPad’s space.