Have captured bundles of clips with your handy HD camcorder like Canon Vixia HF r300? Now, try to store them on your Mac for backup or sharing? In the case, the first thing you should do is to check out whether the iMovie program can recognize the camcorder. If it can be detected by iMovie, then it's very easy to backup the shootings via the iMovie. You can refer to the webpage at http://help.apple.com/imovie/cameras/en/
Luckily enough, you will find that the iMovie'11 is compatible with the Canon Vixia HF R300 AVCHD camcorder. Here I will introduce the step-by-step guide about how to import the Canon AVCHD camcorder to Mac iMovie:
- Power off your camcorder;
- Plug the camcorder into your Mac via a proper FireWire cable;
- Turn on your cam;
- After a few second, iMovie will be opened automatically;
- Click the "File" menu and select "Import from camera." A window pops up, showing your camera in a list of available camera capture devices. Select your video camera from the list and click "OK."
- Follow the onscreen instructions to import the video from the camera into your project.
- You can go on video editing in iMovie.
- Export video from iMovie: When you finished editing the videos, go to "Share" and select a way to export your videos. You can export it to iTunes or You Tube directly or you can just select "export movie" to save it to a folder you want.
If you still can't import the shootings with the above method, you would better try the following:
Turn the camcorder off and on again.
Disconnect the cable from both the camcorder and the computer, and then reconnect it.
Quit and then reopen iMovie.
Restart your computer.
Try using a different cable.
Try using a different computer with iMovie installed.
However, after have followed the above troubleshooting, you still can't succeed in loading the shootings into iMovie. Here is a ultimate solution- render to a third-party software-Mac Video Converter program to convert the Canon AVCHD video to iMovie-compatible file format like MOV, then directly import the generated clips to iMovie for further editing. Plus, it can also convert AVCHD to Final Cut Pro, so you can effortlessly do the professional video editing job.
