MOV to FCP: Putting your H.264 .MOV footage from Canon EOS M2 into Final Cut Pro X

How to smoothly edit Canon EOS M2 mov videos in Final Cut Pro X? In this article, you will learn the best way to transcode EOS M2 H.264 .mov to Apple ProRes for FCP X on Mac before importing.

The M line is in a very competitive segment in the camera industry: models with interchangeable lenses but significantly smaller than traditional SLRs. Canon EOS M2 is the second mirrorless interchangeable-lens camera produced by Canon.The camera is capable of supporting Standard Definition video at 30fps or 25fps, 720p HD video at 60fps or 50fps, and 1080p Full HD video at 30fps, 24fps or 25fps.

Want to convert your favorite MOV videos recorded by EOS M2 to Final Cut Pro X for editing according to your own preference? You may come across problems, Final Cut Pro including the FCP X doesn't support Canon EOS M2 MOV footages well, this is so called "FCP and H.264 MOV incompatibility problem ".

As we konw, Apple ProRes 422 is the best supported video codec for Final Cut Pro. So, to make it easier for editing Canon EOS M2 Reflex .MOV files in FCP X on Mac, the best method to convert Canon H.264 MOV to ProRes for editing in Final Cut Pro X. You can follow the steps below to transcode Canon EOS M2 MOV to FCP X on Mac for editing.

1.Download Pavtube Canon to FCP X Converter for Mac - the professional HD Video Converter for Mac can help you convert EOS M2 1080p MOV files to ProRes 422 MOV format for Final Cut Pro X, more output formats are also supported. It enables you to import/load your Canon EOS M2 MOV files to Final Cut Pro X directly without considering what codec Final Cut Pro is compatible with.

2. Install and launch this Mac Canon to FCP X Converter. Import Canon EOS M2 H.264 MOV footage to the converter. There are three optional ways to import the recorded footages to this program.

* Click the "File > Add Video/Audio" menu to load MOV files.

* Hit the "Add Video" button to import files.

* Drag the target files from the computer to this app.



3.Click format bar to choose the output format. Click and choose Final Cut Pro -> Apple ProRes 422 (*.mov).



Tip:

There are other four presets for ProRes: Apple ProRes 422 HQ, Apple ProRes 422 LT, Apple ProRes 422 Proxy and Apple ProRes 4444. Usually the ProRes 422 HQ has better video quality than ProRes 422 and could meet your needs. If you need smaller size, turn to ProRes 422 LT.

Learn more Apple ProRes, please refer to Types of Apple ProRes Codecs.

4.You can click "settings" to customize the output parameters, adjust the resolution, bitrate as you want.

5.Click convert button to start.

Pavtube Mac Canon to Final Cut Pro X Converter can easily transcode EOS M2 HD MOV files to FCP X compatible format for editing, this software runs fast, so you can convert your EOS M2 footages to FCP X on Mac in less time, other Cannon cameras are supported, such as Canon HF R50/R500/R52, EOS Rebel T5 and EOS C500 PL, etc.

Editing Canon XF205 MXF files with Apple Aperture 3

Follow this article you will know how to transcode Canon XF205 MXF to Apple Aperture 3 best format on Mac OS X.

Adding to the versatility of Canon XF205 is the ability to record broadcast-ready MXF files and web-friendly MP4 files simultaneously, in a variety of bit rates. MXF mode lets you record broadcast-standard Full HD 50Mbps MPEG-2 with 4:2:2 color sampling, while MP4 files are smaller and easier to share and download for web use.

However, if you shoot MXF format by Canon XF205, it won't appear in Aperture 3 for import, you may have the issuse as below:

"I upgraded to Apple Aperture 3.3, but I still do not see my XF205 MXF files when I try to import them. I tried changing the file extension, but no luck. Any ideas?" 

This maybe an issue of codec incompatibility, then which is the easy way to import and edit Canon XF205 MXF footage in Apple Aperture 3? As the Apple Aperture 3 can't support MXF video footages, and Canon XF205 MXF video format is not friendly for Apple Aperture 3, it's a good choice to convert XF205 MXF to Apple Aperture 3 best supported video formats, such as MOV. And then you can edit the XF205 MXF video in Apple Aperture 3 smoothly.

To get the work done, Pavtube MXF Converter Mac is the best third party program to achieve your goal smoothly. Below is the simple step-by-step guide for XF205 beginners to convert MXF from Canon XF205 to Apple Aperture 3 for smoothly editing without rendering.

Step 1: Run Pavtube Mac MXF to MOV Converter for Apple Aperture 3, click "Add file" or "Add from folder" button to load your source MXF clips or drag and drop the XF205 MXF files to the converter. You are allowed to add multiple files to convert at a time.



Step 2: Click format column and choose the output format. You are recommended to choose Final Cut Pro -> Apple ProRes 422 (*.mov), it's great for editing XF205 MXF in Apple Aperture 3.



Step 3. Adjust video and audio parameters. (Optional)

To get 1080 videos, we need to click the “Settings” button and choose 1920*1080 as output video resolution.

Step4: When above steps finished, you can click “Convert” button to start converting Canon XF205 MXF videos to Apple Aperture 3. After converting, you can load Canon XF205 MXF to Apple Aperture 3 for editing as you want, now you can have a try.

With the excellent XF205 MXF Converter for Mac, you can deal Canon XF205 MXF files in Apple Aperture 3 as well as other mac editing programs like FCP 6/7, FCP X, iMovie and Avid Media Composer with best video and audio quality as you want.

• Import 4K Video to Aperture 3

Rip Blu-ray to MP4/MKV format for playing in a sanctuary at a church of about 300

This article will discuss how to rip Blu-ray to MKV/MP4 format for playing in a sanctuary at a church of about 300.

Why Convert and Rip Blu-ray to MP4/MKV?

Remove your Blu-ray encryptions and Play it wherever you please - though you have paid a good price for BD disc, perhaps you have not enjoy full copy right on it. But with Pavtube BDMagic, you can easily defeat upcoming Blu-ray encryption technologies. And after rip Blu-ray to MP4/MKV, you can right unfold Blu-ray disc's wrap, get the content inside and enjoy it as you please.

Here with this versatile Blu-ray ripping tool, you can easily remove all kinds of Blu-ray copy-protections and after you convert Blu-ray to MP4/MKV, the output quality is still as vivid as original. And a lot of videos formats are supported to output, so you are able to watch them on your smartphones or Android tablets, as well as to upload them to YouTube or Facebook for sharing with friends.

Download and installed the software and experience all the functions now. I will share my guide to rip Blu-ray to MP4/MKV for watching on a sanctuary at a church of about 300.

If you wanna a Mac version, please go to Pavtube BDMagic for Mac.

Step 1. Launch the best Blu-ray Ripper and load Blu-ray discs.



Step 2. Click "Format" to find "Common Video" catalogue, select "H.264 Video(*.mp4)" or "MKV(Matroska) Video (*.mkv)".



Step 3. Click "Convert" to start backing up Blu-ray to MP4/MKV, when completed, click "Open" to find the generated files. Obviously, it is easy to use software to backup and convert blu-ray to mp4/mkv for enjoying in a sanctuary at a church of about 300 without any audio and video out of syn issue.

More features of BDMagic:

1. Directly Copy will help to backup the 100% intact Blu-ray main movie and output an m2ts files with multiple audio and subtitle tracks for blu-ray.

2. Full Disc Copy can 1:1 backup the entire Blu-ray with original structure and chapter markers.

3. Convert Blu-ray/DVD to many other devices like iPhone 5S, iPad Air, Samsung Galaxy S5/Galaxy Note 3, Galaxy Tab 3, Amazon Kindle Fire HDX, Surface Pro 3, etc.

Meanwhile, there are many Money Saving Software Bundles, such as BDMagic($49) + DVD Creator($35) = Only $49.9, Save $28.1 for rip blu-ray and burn to DVD which will help you save more money. Go to find the one you need.

Convert DVD Movies to NTSC VOB Files for burning into DVD

Read this article to backup DVD movies to NTSC VOB easily with an super fast speed and high quality by using Pavtube DVDAid and burn them into playable DVD for viewing with Pavtube DVD Creator.

DVD disc is easy to be lost or damaged. Have you thinking of watching it on your computer so that you can preserve it on the shelf? Now you can rip DVD to NTSC VOB format, after that, you still can have a DVD experience on computer, not only limited to DVD players! (Most countries in the world use the PAL video standard which has a frame rate of 25 frames per second (fps). The US, Canada and Japan use NTSC which has a rate of 29.97 fps.)

Here is Pavtube DVDAid, an excellent DVD converter that enables you convert DVD to NTSC VOB format easily with high output quality. Moreover, the professional and easy DVD ripper has upgrade with NVIDIA® CUDA™ technology, and the conversion speed is 6X faster now to save your time! Besides converting DVD to NTSC VOB, this DVD ripper can also help you rip DVD to WMV, AVI, FLV, MOV, MKV, etc. and extract audio from DVD with high quality.

Step-by-step tutorial to convert DVD to NTSC VOB format
Step 1. Insert your DVD disc into your DVD drive, run the best DVD to NTSC VOB converter and click “Load disc” icon to load movie from DVD source (Disc, folder, ISO). Set your wnted subtitles and audio track from the drop-down box of “Subtitles” and “Audio” tab. If you are Blu-ray lover, here is a guide for you to backup Blu-ray to NTSC VOB.



Step 2. Click the “Format” option, and choose “VOB format > DVD-Video Format – NTSC(*.vob)” as output format.



Tip: If you like, you can click “Settings” to change the video encoder, resolution, frame rate, etc. as you wish. Keep in mind the file size and video quality is based more on bitrate than resolution which means bitrate higher results in big file size, and lower visible quality loss, and vice versa.



Step 3. Click the convert button under the preview window, and the Pavtube DVDAid will start the conversion from DVD movies to NTSC VOB format.

When it is finished, click "Open" to get the converted DVD VOB movies.

How to burn converted NTSC VOB files into playable DVD?

Get Pavtube DVD Creator features which can help you burn any kind of video sources to playable DVD video. Learn how to burn NTSC VOB videos into DVD here.

Now it will be easy to backup DVD to NTS VOB format and get playable DVD with preserving the DVD quality. Have a good time! Here I suggest you can get this bundled software : DVDAid($35) + DVD Creator($35)= Only $35.9, Save $34.1 to help you save more money.

Mac users can learn the solution to convert DVD to VOB files on Mac.

How to play 1080p Blu-ray on WD TV Live Plus Media Player

If you are just curious about how to play 1080p Blu-ray on WD TV Live Plus Media Player, get the best BD ripping tools/applications to rip Blu-ray to WDTV best supported format.

The WD TV is a hot consumer device produced by Western Digital that plays videos, images, and music from USB drives. It has been updated a few models including WD TV Live, WD TV Live Plus, WD TV Live Hub, etc. It will be a delightful experience to enjoy your Blu-ray movies on your HDTV via WD TV Live over network.

However, WD TV Live Plus doesn't support Blu-ray. In order to play your Blu-ray movies on WD TV Live Plus Media Player, you need to rip these BD to WD TV Live supported video formats.

Here Pavtube ByteCopy is such a Blu-ray & DVD backuping/coping/ripping application to help you out. Acted almost like a Blu-ray player, it’s a breeze to access and enjoy up to 1080p HD movie with AC3 5.1 surround sound out. Although full Blu-ray navigation is not supported so far, you can select desired audio track, subtitles language, and chapter to play with.  The Mac version is ByteCopy for Mac. 

The following passage shows a best way to convert a Blu-ray Disc for WD TV Live Plus Media Player with multiple subtitles while maintaining original Dolby Digital 5.1 audio.

To begin:

Launch the program and add the movie you want to encode by clicking the “Load file(s)” icon on the main interface. You can see the chapter information of your Blu-ray movies on the main interface after you loading to the program.



Then choose the output format. In order to preserve the chapter structure and subtitles, you’d better choose the “Multi-track Video”. Under this profile, you have three choices which all can preserve chapter structure.

If you choose "Lossless/encoded Multi-track MKV(*mkv)" format, you can output the BD disc with lossless quality and allow multiple audio tracks, multiple subtitles.



One special function that makes ByteCopy stands out is you can easily select you needed tracks, subtitles.



The last thing you need to do is hit the “Convert” button to copy Blu-ray to H.264 MKV format. Just wait a moment and then you can output the mkv videos with the chapter and subtitles preserving. Then you can copy the result files onto WD TV Live Plus Media Player for watching.

Have a fun of it!

Xbox 360 won't play DVD- Rip DVD Movies for Playback on Xbox 360

Does Xbox 360 play DVD? Many Xbox users have this question. Today, I will share the Xbox 360 DVD playback solution with everyone in this article. Keep on reading.

The new Xbox 360 devices are not only a game cansole, but also a media player that could store and play various HD movies. And the most exciting thing is Xbox 360 works as a DVD player in a pinch.

If you want to protects your precious DVDs from being scratched or damaged, back up your borrowed or rent DVD movie, or even wanna remove region code from DVD, it’s a wise idea to rip DVD to Xbox first with a DVD ripper provided. Then everything will be ok and you will not bother to insert the DVD disc every time when you planning to watch DVD on Xbox 360.

As is mentioned above, a professional DVD ripper can help you remove all embarrassments you encountered. Here Pavtube DVDAid is highly acclaimed among a mass of customers for its omnipotent DVD ripping ability and utmost video quality when ripping DVD to Xbox compatible video formats: *.wmv, *.mp4. Besides that, its build-in editor lets you touch up the DVD video as you like, which include trimming, cropping, rotate, merge and apply special visual effects, etc.  You can reach the Mac version here: DVDAid for Mac.

Follow the 1-2-3 steps, you will find the conversion from DVD movies to Xbox 360 is so easy and fast and then watch DVD movie on Xbox 360. (Here is Xbox 360 Blu-ray solution)

Step 1. Import your DVD movies

Download and install Pavtube DVDAid. Launch it and click the Load DVD button to import the DVD files that you want to convert to play with Xbox 360. Both ISO, IFO and files in DVD Folder can be loaded.



Step 2. Choose Xbox 360 preset as the output format

This DVD to Xbox ripper provides optimized presets for Xbox 360 (HD output format). So in this step, you can just choose the ready preset for Xbox 360 like "Xbox 360 Video - Windows Media Video(*.wmv)", "Xbox 360 Video (640*480)(*.wmv)" or "Xbox 360 HD Video (*.wmv)" as the output format, which will remove all the incompatibility issue.

Tip: This Xbox 360 DVD Ripper let users control/customize output file quality. To improve video quality, simply click “Settings” and set video bitrate up.

 

Step 3. Start converting DVD movies to Xbox

Before start ripping, you can also edit the DVD movies as you like. When all settings are done, simply click the "Convert" button to begin the conversion from DVD to Xbox 360. You will get the files converted ready in a few minutes


Now you can copy this ripped DVD movies to Xbox 360 hard drive or use the MCE to steam them to Xbox via your home network to watch DVD on Xbox 360.

MKV to iMovie Workflow - Convert MKV to an iMovie acceptable AIC .mov file

This article will explain why we often failed to import MKV to iMovie, and I will introduce a step by step guide on how to successfully import MKV files to iMovie.

Why We often Encounter Problem in Importing MKV to iMovie?

MKV (Matroska Video), an open and free container format able to keep diverse video, audio, and subtitle components in just one file, can let you enjoy high definition videos at home easily. Yet, if you download a swathe of videos with the file extension MKV and intend to convert MKV to iMovie for editing on Mac, then the problem pops up.

Solution:

So if your source MKV files can't be accepted by iMovie on Mac , you need to convert MKV to  iMovie compatible code AIC. I know a program that named HD Video Converter for Mac, is just the ideal MKV to  AIC  conversion software. It can easily transcode MKV video to AIC .mov for adding MKV to iMovie for editing. Below is a step by step guide to show you how to convert MKV videos to iMovie.

Preparation: 
Download and install the Mac MKV to AIC converter on your Mac computer, it works on Mac OS 10.5 or above.
Step 1. Run the program and load your MKV video files into it.

Step 2. Choose "iMovie and Final Cut Express>Apple InterMediate Codec(AIC) (*mov)" as output format for editing in iMovie.



Step 3. Start transcoding MKV to AIC .mov by clicking on "Convert" button.

Of course, the process will take some time, please wait patiently. When it's finished, you can easily import the converted media file into iMovie for editing.

Ok then launch iMovie, click "File > Import" to load these MOV videos:

Except help you handling MKV video files, this MKV to iMovie Converter can deal with Blu-ray, DVD and other video files like AVI. Meanwhile, it's able to convert them for your tablets or smartphones with optimized presets. Overall, it's really a good helper that worth having.


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