Canon XF100 makes use of Canon's XF codec-a file-based MPEG-2 compression with MXF file wrapper. It can record content with 1080/60i/30p/24p or 720/60p/30p/24p at a constant bitrate of 50Mbps for high color resolution of HDV. You can capture many interesting videos with Canon XF100.
Everything goes perfect until you try to edit Canon XF100 .mxf file in iMovie. Fail in import the MXF file into iMovie, though you can see the disk on the desktop and can play the files in the Canon plug-in after connecting the XF100 to Mac. Why does it happen? The answer is MXF file format incompatibility with iMovie (even iMovie'11).
To import XF100 MXF files into iMovie for editing, the best way is converting MXF to iMovie recongnized video formats like AIC .mov. Mac Canon MXF Converter is your best choice to convert MXF to iMovie on Mac.
With Mac XF100 MXF to AIC MOV Converter, you can keep the highest video quality for editing. In addition, you can also convert MXF to Prores for FCP, DNxHD MOV for Avid,AVC MOV for Premiere Pro or other popular video formats like WMV, AVI, MKV, FLV, 3GP, MPG, etc on Mac and edit videos like cropping videos, adding watermark, trimming videos, merging videos.
Step 1. After downloading, install and run this best Canon MXF to iMovie Converter for Mac, just copy the MXF files from the CF cards right to your hard drive, import the files to the software.
Step 2. Click "Format" bar to choose the output format.
Click format bar to choose the output format, for editing Canon MXF files on iMovie, you can choose iMovie-> Apple InterMediate Codec (AIC) (*.mov).
Step 3. You can click Settings button to adjust the output parameters such as resolution and bitrate, you can also keep it as original.
Step 4. Click convert button to start converting Canon XF100 MXF to AIC for iMovie.
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