Continue reading »]]> The Canon VIXIA HF G30 is a prosumer camera?that shoots 1920 x 1080 Full HD video in either AVCHD or web-friendly MP4 format. It also supports Native 24p Progressive Mode recording, which will give your footage a more cinematic look.?Videos are shot in AVCHD up to 35 Mbps and recorded in full HD 1080 60p, which is not supported by most editing programs. Hence it could be a problem when Mac users need to ingest the Canon Vixia HF G30 AVCHD/MP4 video in Adobe Premiere Pro, Avid Media Composer smoothly.

To edit Canon Vixia HF G30 AVCHD in Adobe Premiere Pro, Avid Media Composer on Mac, you are suggested to convert the AVCHD MTS to Adobe preferred H.264 MOV or DNxHD for Avid. To accomplish this, I recommend this Pavtube HD Video Converter for Mac, a professional, fast and easy-to-use AVCHD converting program which support outputting various videos formats for different usage.

Now follow these steps to quick convert Canon Vixia HF G30 AVCHD into DNxHD/AVC MOV.

Free download the best Canon AVCHD/MP4 to MOV Converter for Mac, get it installed.

              
(Download a dmg file for Mac OS X 10.5 users) 

Step 1: Connect your camcorder to Mac and Load recorded files.

Connect your camcorder to Mac, and you can see all recorded AVCHD/MP4 files as soon as this program has detected the device. Now, you can untick the files you don’t want, and then click the “Add” button to load the files you want to this AVCHD/MP4 to MOV Converter for Mac, or drag and drop your videos into it directly. Batch conversion is offered.

For Windows user: Connect an HD video camera/camcorders to your PC with a USB cable. Once connected and powered on, the camcorder should appear on the desktop as a new disk. It is desirable that you copy the videos to your PC’s hard-drive before converting or editing them.

Step 2. Choose proper video format.

Open the “Format” list then choose “MOV” under “Avid Media Composer” section as output format for editing Canon Vixia HF G30 AVCHD/MP4 files in Avid Media Composer.

choose “MOV”/”MPEG-2” under “Adobe Premiere/Sony Vegas” section or “Apple ProRes 422(*.mov)” under “Final Cut Pro” section as output format for editing Canon Vixia HF G30 AVCHD/MP4 files in Adobe Premiere Pro.

In fact, if you are about to play the AVCHD/MP4 video files on iPhone, iPod, iPad, Android, Windows 8 devices or edit in iMovie, Final Cut Pro X, FCE etc., you can choose the optimized preset for the device or app offered.

Step 3. Customize video size, bitrate, frame rate, and other settings.

Tips:

* For 1080 50p AVCHD files, you can set the video size as 1920*1080, and set the video frame rate as 25fps.
* For 1080 60p AVCHD videos, set the video size as 1920*1080; while, set the video frame rate as 30fps.

FYI: Tf you want to trim, crop the videos before transcoding, you can click Edit like this:

Pavtube AVCHD Converter for Mac also support deinterlacing, editing audio and adding sutitles.

(Note: If you want to add 3D effect (Side-by-Side, Top-Bottom, or Anaglyph 3D in MKV/MP4/MOV/WMV/AVI), you can try Video Converter Ultimate or Video Converter Ultimate for Mac, now is 20% off.

Step 4. Start conversion.

Click the “Convert” button to start converting Canon Vixia HF G30 AVCHD/MP4 to MOV for Avid MC, converting to MOV/MPEG-2/Apple ProRes for Adobe Premiere Pro.

After this Top HD Video Converter for Mac finishes the conversion process, you can click “Open Folder” to find out where you saved the converted files.

Now let’s click the “Convert” to start this conversion easily. Wait for a while and you can click the “Open” to locate the converted video easily.

You may want to read: 

• How to import the converted video to Avid Media Composer?
• How to import the converted video to Premiere Pro?

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Learn more:

• Get iMovie to work with Canon Vixia HF G30 60p mts video
• Best Way to convert Canon HF G30 AVCHD to After Effects CS6
• Convert Canon HF G30 AVCHD/MPEG-4 to Apple Aperture 3
• Transfer Canon HF G30 AVCHD to Sony Vegas, Pinnacle, Windows Movie Maker 

Source: Ingesting Canon Vixia HF G30 footage to Avid Media Composer/Premiere Pro

Continue reading »]]> Have you ever met the similar issue? And do you know the reason? Have you find what is the best way to solved the problem and get Panasonic GH3 50p AVCHD to Avid Media Composer? The Media Magician will help you.

Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH3 Reviews

They are really pushing the combination high-quality still and video in one camera. They have really helped their cause by adding a headphone jack for monitoring to the camera along with a flip-out 3-inch LCD screen. This is the cheapest camera available to offer this feature.

The Panasonic GH3 once again focuses on video as much as photo performance. From the specs we can see that the new Lumix DSLR records at much higher bitrate video. AVCHD capture is now at up to 1080/50p. However, the big news is a QuickTime mode that records at 1080/24p, 1080/25p or 720/50p using an unusually high 72Mbit/s bit rate and all-intra compression. Unlike normal AVC compression, this describes each frame from scratch rather than updating areas that have changes since the last frame. It should give less compression artifacts than the heavily compressed AVCHD output from the GH2, particularly for fast-moving scenes. QuickTime 1080/50p capture is at 50Mbit/s, and while it doesn’t use all-intra compression, it should still give better results than the GH2’s 24Mbit/s maximum bit rate. It supports several video recording formats:

• H.264 MOV: [Full HD] 1,920 x 1,080, 50p, 25p, 24p; [HD] 1,280 x 720, 50p
• AVCHD (MTS/M2TS): [Full HD] 1,920 x 1,080 50p/50i/24p
• MP4: [Full HD] 1080 25p; [HD] 720 25p; [VGA] 480 25p

The 1080/50p shooting mode brings Full HD 1920x1080p video with best possible quality, but it could be a problem if you’re working AVCHD footage in Avid Media Composer. Avid does not support the 50p footage. So far I am still not able to import the 1080/50p from my Panasonic DHC-TM900. But still the 50i AVCHD is very good to see on a 42 inch plasma screen.

Here’s a solution for importing 1080/50p to Avid with the help of 3rd-party app Pavtube Media Magician for Avid, a nice camcorder assistant manager and AVCHD editor. When serving as an intermediate decoder, the software can convert 1080/50p AVCHD .mts/.m2ts video into Avid DNxHD .mov format, which is naturally supported by Avid Media Composer.

How to get Panasonic GH3 1080/50p video into Avid DNxHD .mov format?

Step 1: Import AVCHD clips from Panasonic GH3 to Media Magician.

Connect your camera with your PC and launch Pavtube Media Magician for Windows (If you work on OS X, get Media Magician for Mac). The app will automatically detect your camera and ask “Camcorder is connected. Are you ready to launch wizard now?” Click “Yes” to confirm. Select the 1080/50p video files you’d like to import to AVID, and then press “Start” to import AVCHD to Media Magician library.

• Read More: How to batch manage AVCHD MTS/M2TS footage at One Time

Step 2: Organize and edit Panasonic GH3 1080/50p videos in timeline.

Drag and drop the AVCHD videos to timeline for editing from library. Here you can remove unwanted .mts/.m2ts clips, trim out unwanted frames from specific clip by frame-accurate, and put them into the right order for merging. Use the scissor icon to do frames trimming.

• Read More: How to edit movies on a timeline and frame selection control?

Step 3: Choose “Output” on the top of main interface to switch it to output interface.

In output interface you can set intermediate codec for editing software as well as common video format (AVI, MKV, MP4, MOV, MPG, etc) for compressing AVCHD.

Step 4: Choose Avid DNxHD codec as output format.

For importing Panasonic GH3 1080/50p video to AVID, follow the steps to set Avid DNxHD preset:

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1. Move your mouse to “Editor”, click on the tab.
2. Select “Avid Studio” group.
3. The default output format for AVID is “Avid DNxHD 720p(*.mov)”. To export 1080p full HD video, just select the “Avid DNxHD 1080p(*.mov)”from the drop-down list of “Format” bar. Set higher bitrate for better quality if necessary.

Step 5: Convert Panasonic GH3 1080/50p videos and export best format for AVID Studio

Press the plus sign (+) to add task for conversion. Select the task(s) and click on the triangle sign to start encoding Panasonic GH3 1080/50p videos to Avid DNxHD MOV.

After conversion you can refer to this post: How to Import Media contents to Avid Media Composer naturally without rendering/encoding.