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Wednesday, December 27, 2017

Import Canon Vixia HF G21 AVCHD/MP4 to iMovie

The VIXIA HF G21 from Canon offers Full HD 1080p60 recording in both MP4 and AVCHD file formats, with maximum bit rates of 35 Mbps in MP4, and 28 Mbps in AVCHD. For Mac users who wish to turn your Canon Vixia HF G21 footage into stunning movies or trailers, iMovie can be your best choices. How about the native workflow of Canon Vixia HF G21 AVCHD/MP4 with iMovie?

Can iMovie direct import Vixia HF G21 AVCHD/MP4 format?

From iMovie supported file formats, we can see that both AVCHD and MP4 are included in iMovie editable file formats list. However, the 60p AVCHD MTS file is not an acceptable file format by iMovie. Although iMovie can native import 60p MP4. However, you won't get a high quality editing workflow since the MPEG-4 files is highly compressed.

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Best workflow of Vixia HF G21 AVCHD/MP4 with iMovie

To get the best workflow of Canon Vixia HF G21 AVCHD/MP4 with iMovie, it would be ideal for you to transcode Vixia HF G21 AVCHD/MP4 to iMovie most favorable high quality and high performance editing codec Apple Intermediate Codec - AIC. To generate AIC codec, you can download Pavtube Video Converter for Mac, which has perfect importing support for both the AVCHD and MP4 format shot with Canon Vixia HF G21. Thanks to its batch conversion mode, you can import multiple video into the application at one time to save your precious time.

The application can assist you to easily convert Canon Vixia HF G21 AVCHD/MP4 to iMovie AIC codec with best quality and super fast conversion speed. To get better output quality, you can flexibly adjust output profile parameters such as video codec, bit rate, frame rate, resolution and audio codec, bit rate, sample rate and channels, etc in the "Profile Settings" window offered by the application.

Pavtube Video Converter for Mac is available on macOS High Sierra, macOS Sierra, Mac OS X El Capitan, Mac OS X Yosemite and Mac OS X Mavericks, etc. It is very simple to use, no matter experienced user or fresh could handle it very well. What's more, it helps to produce high quality conversion results with better video/audio quality.

Step by Step to Transcode Canon Vixia HF G21 AVCHD/MP4 to AIC for iMovie Editing

Step 1: Import Canon Vixia HF G21 AVCHD/MP4 video.

Download the free trial version of the program. Launch it on your computer. Click "File" menu and select "Add Video/Audio" or click the "Add Video" button on the top tool bar to import Canon Vixia HF G21 AVCHD/MP4 video into the program.

Import Canon Vixia HF G21 AVCHD/MP4

Step 2: Choose output file format.

From "Format" drop-down option, choose iMovie best editing codec by selecting "iMovie and Final Cut Ex..." > "Apple Intermediate Codec (AIC)(*.mov).

Output iMovie best favorable AIC editing format

Step 3: Edit Canon Vixia HF G21 AVCHD/MP4 videos.

By default the Edit icon is grayed out. To activate the Edit menu, you have to select an item first. When a video or movie is selected, click the pencil like Edit icon on the left top tool bar to open the video editor window, here, you can play and preview the original video and output effects. Also you can flip or rotate video, trim, crop, add watermark, apply special effect, edit audio or insert external subtitle.

Edit Canon Vixia HF G21 AVCHD/MP4 video

Step 4: Start the conversion process.

After all the settings is over, go back to the main interface and hit right-bottom "Convert" button to start to convert Canon Vixia HF G21 AVCHD/MP4 to iMovie best compatible Apple Intermediate Codec editing format.

When the conversion is completed, launch iMovie on your Mac computer to import converted video to iMovie for smooth editing workflow on either fast or slow Mac computer.

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Wednesday, December 20, 2017

Import Sony A7R III 4K XAVC S to iMovie

The Sony a7R Mark III is the company's latest high-resolution full frame mirrorless camera. Much like Nikon's recent D850, it's one that combines this resolution with high speed and fast autofocus capabilities to a degree we've not previously seen. The camera can record up to 100 Mbps UHD 4K video in XAVC S format within an MP4 wrapper at a frame rate of 23.98, 25 and 29.97fps. When the shooting is completed, for Mac users, if you are looking for a free and professional video editing software to edit the Sony A7R III 4K XAVC S footage, iMovie can be your best choice. The following article will show you how to get a smooth workflow of Sony A7R III 4K XAVC S with iMovie.

Can iMovie native import Sony A7R III 4K XAVC S video?

From iMovie supported file formats, we can see that iMovie lacks the ability to handle XAVC S footage. Therefore, you will need to perform a format transcoding process to edit A7R III 4K XAVC S with iMovie.

Transcode A7R III 4K XAVC S for iMovie editing

To get a high quality and high performance editing workflow of A7R III 4K XAVC S with iMovie, it would be much ideal for you to encode 4K XAVC S to iMovie most favorable Apple Intermediate Codec. It was used because it was less processor intensive as the compression scheme did not need the next frame to be displayed.

Looking for a simple to use application to get the job completed, we highly recommend Pavtube Video Converter for Mac to you. The program has perfect importing support for A7R III 4K XAVC S video into the application. Thanks to its batch conversion mode, you can load multiple A7R III 4K XAVC S video into the application at one time for conversion to save your precious time.

Edit A7R III 4K XAVC S

Before loading A7R III 4K XAVC S video into the iMovie, you can also complete some basic video editing work with the program's built-in editing options. You can trim unwanted video segments from the video, crop video to remove the black bars, add transparent text watermark, apply special rendering effects, insert external srt/ass/ssa subtitles, etc.

How to Import and Edit Sony A7R III 4K XAVC S with iMovie?

Step 1: Import Sony A7R III 4K XAVC S video.

Download the free trial version of the program. Launch it on your computer. Click "File" menu and select "Add Video/Audio" or click the "Add Video" button on the top tool bar to import Sony A7R III 4K XAVC S video into the program.

Import Sony A7R III 4K XAVC S video

Step 2: Choose output file format.

From "Format" drop-down option, choose iMovie best editing codec by selecting "iMovie and Final Cut Ex..." > "Apple Intermediate Codec (AIC)(*.mov).

Output iMovie supported editing codec

Step 3: Edit Sony A7R III 4K XAVC S videos.

By default the Edit icon is grayed out. To activate the Edit menu, you have to select an item first. When a video or movie is selected, click the pencil like Edit icon on the left top tool bar to open the video editor window, here, you can play and preview the original video and output effects. Also you can flip or rotate video, trim, crop, add watermark, apply special effect, edit audio or insert external subtitle.

Edit Sony A7R III 4K XAVC S videos

Step 4: Start the conversion process.

After all the settings is over, go back to the main interface and hit right-bottom "Convert" button to start to convert Sony A7R III 4K XAVC S to iMovie best compatible Apple Intermediate Codec editing format.

When the conversion is completed, launch iMovie on your Mac computer to import converted video to iMovie for smooth editing workflow on either fast or slow Mac computer.

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Tuesday, December 12, 2017

Edit 4K Video with Pinnacle Studio 21/21 Plus/21 Ultimate

The newly released Pinnacle Studio 21/21 Plus/21 Ultimate offers powerful and creative video editing by applying special effects, adding titles and templates or also multi-track, HD, 3D and 4K video editing. Have some 4K footage shot with your 4K device recorders and also wish to load them Pinnacle Studio 21/21 Plus/21 Ultimate. How about the workflow of 4K video with Pinnacle Studio 21/21 Plus/21 Ultimate?

Media compatibility of Pinnacle Studio 21/21 Plus/21 Ultimate

To answer this question, we should be clear of what file formats can be played on Pinnacle Studio 21/21 Plus/21 Ultimate:

Pinnacle Studio 21 Version Standard Plus Ultimate
HEVC (H.265)**
Import
Import
Import and Export
Dolby Digital
2CH
5.1CH
5.1CH
XAVC S support
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New

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XAVC and DVCPRO HD decoding
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4K Ultra HD video support
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Import MXF files
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Tips: HEVC (H.265) support requires supporting PC hardware or graphics card.

From above information, we can see that currently only Pinnacle Studio 21 Ultimate has editing support for 4K Ultra HD video. Neither Pinnacle Studio 21 Standard nor 21 Plus offers 4K video editing capability. Therefore, before importing 4K video to Pinnacle Studio 21 Standard/21 Plus, it is essential to compress 4K to 1080p.

Although the Pinnacle Studio 21 Ultimate provides 4K Ultra HD video editing function, however, it doesn't mean that you can import 4K video with any file formats into it. Currently, it only supports to handle 4K video with the format of XAVC S, MXF, H.265/HEVC, etc. Therefore, if you try to load other 4K video such as 4K AVI, 4K WMV, 4K MOV, 4K MKV, 4K TS, 4K H.264, 4K Prores, etc, you will fail to add them to Pinnacle Studio 21 Ultimate. When in that condition, you will need to perform a format or codec transcoding process.

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Best tool to transcode and compress 4K Video for Pinnacle Studio editing

For those people who are looking for a comprehensive solution to fix Pinnacle Studio 21 4K video editing issues, we highly recommend Pavtube Video Converter to you. The program has full importing support for all 4K video wrapped with different container file formats such as AVI, WMV, MP4, MOV, MKV, TS, XAVC, XAVC S, MXF and compression codec such as H.264, H.265 and Prores.

Here, you can not only transcode unsupported 4K video to Pinnacle Studio 21 Ultimate editable 4K file formats such as 4K H.265/HEVC, but also downscale 4K video to Pinnacle Studio 21 Standard/21 Plus compatible HD AVI/WMV/MPEG-1/MPEG-2/MPEG-4, etc.

Edit 4K video with built-in editing functions

Before loading 4K video into Pinnacle Studio 21 Standard/21 Plus/21 Ultimate, you can first complete some simple video editing task with the built-in editing options offered by the application. You can trim or cut video to remove unwanted parts or segments from the beginning or end, crop video to remove the black edges, apply special rendering effect, change video picture effect, add video/image/transparent text watermark, insert external subtitle, etc.

For Mac users, you can switch to download Pavtube Video Converter for Mac to complete the format and codec transcoding and compression process on macOS High Sierra, macOS Sierra, Mac OS X El Capitan, Mac OS X Yosemite, Mac OS X Mavericks, etc.

How to Transcode and Compress 4K Video for Pinnacle Studio 21/21 Plus/21 Ultimate Editing?

Step 1: Load 4K video files into the program.

Run the program on your computer click "File" > "Add Video/Audio" or "Add from folder" to add unsupported 4K video files into the program.

Load unsupported 4K video

Step 2: Set output file format.

Click the pull down menu of "Format", from its drop-down list, choose one of Pinnacle Studio 21 Ultimate supported 4K file formats "H.265 Video(*.mp4)" under "Common Video" main category.

Output Pinnacle Studio 21 Ultimate supported 4K formats

To choose Pinnacle Studio 21 Standard/Plus supported editing formats, choose "AVI HD Video(*.avi)" under "HD Video" main category.

Output Pinnacle Studio 21 Standard or Plus supported HD formats

Step 3: Compress 4K to 1080p.

To deal 4K video with Pinnacle Studio 20 Standard or Plus, it would be much ideal for you to compress 4K to 1080p by outputting a HD file format and then changing the output file resolution as "1920*1080" or "1080*720" in the program's "Profile Settings" window.

Compress 4K to 1080p

Step 3: Edit 4K video.

Check an item to active the "Video Editor" function, then click the pencil like icon on the top tool bar to open the "Video Editor" window, you can trim video length, crop video black bars, add watermark, apply special rendering effect, remove/replace audio in video, etc.

Edit 4K video

Step 4: Start the final conversion process.

After all setting is completed, hit the "Convert" button at the right bottom of the main interface to begin the conversion process from 4K video to Pinnacle Studio 21/21 Plus/21 Ultimate transcoding and compression process.

When the conversion is finished, click "Open Output Folder" icon on the main interface to open the folder with generated files. Then you will have no problem to import and edit 4K video with Pinnacle Studio 21/21 Plus/21 Ultimate.

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Tuesday, December 5, 2017

Trim Movies/Videos for Taking Extra Scenes

There are many times that we will need to trim or cut a video/movie for taking extra scenes:
- Remove a few seconds of dead time at the beginning of your video, or an unintentional camera droop at the end.
- Pull out all your favorite segments and save as new clips so you can and use them however you want.

Best tools to trim or cut extra scenes from video/movie

Although there are many video cutter or trimmer tools even including some free ones on the market, however, you may be disappointed to find that some is too complicated to use, others only support to import very limited file formats, there are still some programs can do the video cutting or trimming job accurately or force you to re-encoding the original video or movie to another file format without obvious quality loss.

For those people who are looking for a simple to use tool to accurately trim or cut any video you have in hand with no quality loss, we highly recommend Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate (get Mac version) to you. The program has full importing support for not only 4K/2K/HD/SD digital video in virtually any file formats (including H.265/HEVC, MXF, XAVC/XAVC S) but also commercial 3D/2D Blu-ray disc and DVD disc.  

Ways to trim or cut video for taking out extra scenes

As for the core trimming function, the program allows you to easily trim or cut unwanted scenes from the beginning or end easily and accurately in various different ways:
1. Drag the control sliders to include the segment you want to remain.
2. Click the left square bracket to set start point, and click the right square bracket to set end point when previewing the video.
3. Input specific values to "Start" and "End" box.

Trim or cut video in original formats or various other file formats

For those people who don't want to suffer any quality loss, you can just choose to output the same file format as the original file format, also make sure to keep other profile parameters unchanged in the "Profile Settings" window. Alternatively, you can also select to trim or cut the video to other digital file formats as you like.

Crop/Merge/Split/Watermark/Apply Effect/Insert subtitle to video

Apart from trimming out the extra scenes from the video, you can also use this program to do other simple video editing task. You can crop the video to remove the black bars or unwanted size area around the video frame, add video/image/transparent text watermark to video, apply special rendering effect such as gray, flip color, aged film, etc, add external subtitle to video, merge separate video clips into one single file or split a large video into small clips by file size, count or length.

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Step by Step to Trim Video/Movie to Take Out Extra Scenes

Step 1: Add source video or movie to the app.

Click "File" menu, and select "Add Video/Audio" or "Add from folder" to import source video or movie files.

Add source video or movie

Step 2: Select output format.

Clicking the Format bar, from its drop-down list, select one of your desired digital file format to output, here, we choose to output a popular devices and applications widely accepted file formats such as "H.264 HD Video(*.mp4)" under "HD Video" main category.

Choose output file format

Here, you can also select to output the same file format the original file format and keep all other profile parameters unchanged so that you won't suffer any quality loss.

Step 3: Trim movies to take out extra scenes

In the video editor window, choose the "Trim" tab and this tab is selected by default when the editing window appears. You can use the trim function to cut off unwanted parts from start and end. You can either drag pointers on the process bar or set exact time point in Start and End boxes to set.

Trim or cut video to take out extra scenes

Step 4: Start the video or movie trimming process.

After all setting is completed, hit the "Convert" button at the right bottom of the main interface to begin to trim or cut video/move to take out extra scenes.

When the conversion is finished, click "Open Output Folder" icon on the main interface to open the folder with generated files. Then you can get a video clip with only your unwanted parts or scenes.

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