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Canon has expanded its PowerShot line at CES 2013, with the 12.1-megapixel Canon PowerShot N unveiled as an ultra-compact snapper that features a new, unusually boxy design that is a combination of enjoyable and frustrating to use in equal measures.

Switching up conventional controls between an increasingly popular touchscreen and the rather unusual pairing of lens-mounted rings, one for zoom, one for the shutter, the Wi-Fi capable Canon PowerShot N is, on first impressions at least, a device that is designed for the Facebook ages, quick, quirky and extremely compact.

Key specifications

• 12.1-megapixel CMOS sensor
• 8x optical zoom lens
• 28mm to 224mm (35mm equivalent) zoom range
• 461k-dot, 2.8-inch tilting touchscreen
• Wi-Fi connectivity
• ISO 80 to 6,400
• 1080p full-HD video recording
• 174g

Full HD 1080p Video

A dedicated movie button makes it easy to switch directly to video mode. With one touch of the button you are able to capture video in Full HD 1080p video at 24 frames per second. Video is also available in lower resolutions and in miniature effect mode and Super Slow Motion mode. Short Movie “Digests” can be created at 1280 x 720 resolution.

How to Import Canon PowerShot N footages to Mac (FCP, iMovie, FCE)?

The Canon PowerShot N recorded videos are H.264 codec MOV format, which supports 1080p full HD recording, many people use Canon PowerShot N record vivid high-definition videos and images. The Canon PowerShot N recorded file format is H.264 MOV, this format is supported by many editing software, but it can’t be supported perfectly, take FCP, iMovie, FCE for example. Final Cut Pro supported best video format is Apple ProRes 422 Codec MOV format, and imovie/FCE best supported video format is AIC codec MOV format. You can edit video with these formats FCP, iMovie, FCE smoothly. So it’s great choice to change Canon Powershot N H.264 MOV to Apple ProRes 422 codec MOV format, or to AIC codec MOV format, then you can edit video well on Mac. You can follow the steps below to convert Canon PowerShot N footages for FCP, iMovie, FCE.

Step 1. Download and install Pavtube Canon MOV Converter for Mac. It’s can convert videos between rich video formats, such as convert media from Canon PowerShot N to ProRes 422/AIC for FCP, iMovie, FCE.

Step 2. Drag and drop the Canon powershot N recorded H.264 MOV video to this Mac Canon MOV Converter.

Tip: If you have multiple MOV files, you can select the “Merge into one” box to join your MOV files into one single file.

Step 3. Click “Format” column to choose the best output format for editing in FCP, iMovie, FCE.

• For FCP or FCP X users, choose Final Cut Pro -> Apple ProRes 422 (*.mov)
• For iMovie or FCE 4 users, choose “iMovie and Final Cut Express” > “Apple InterMediate Codec (AIC) (*.mov)”

Step 4. Click the “Settings” button and customize proper video/ audio parameters if necessary.  E.g. set video resolution(1920×1080/1440×1080/1280×720/720×480), bitrate (from 1Mbps to 20Mbps), frame rate (24p/30p). You may skip this step as well.

Step 5. Hit “3D” icon, set deinterlace, denoise, mute, volume up, trim, crop, etc. You may skip this step as well.

Step 6. Convert Canon Powershot N H.264 MOV for editing on Mac.

Press “Convert” icon, let this smart Canon MOV Converter for Mac to help you convert Canon Powershot N H.264 MOV to ProRes 422 MOV for FCP (X) or encode Canon Powershot N H.264 MOV to AIC MOV for iMovie/FCE importing and editing! This Mac Canon MOV Converter is specifically designed for Mac users (including Mac Mountain Lion 10.8, Mac OS X Lion 10.7, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard). The video and audio quality are best guaranteed.

When the conversion task ends up, click “Open” button to get the generated ProRes 422 or AIC codec MOV files for using in Final Cut Pro or iMovie/FCE.

PS. You can also follow these Mac Importing Tutorial to import converted Canon Powershot N H.264 MOV files to the Mac Editing Software.

• How to import Canon MOV videos to Final Cut Pro (X)?
• How to import Canon MOV videos to iMovie?

More about Video Files Importing Ways, pls reference File Importing Page.

Continue reading »]]> “I have a Panasonic P2 AG-HVX200 camcorder which records MXF footages, and I use L&T to load videos to FCP on Mac Mountain Lion 10.8. This way is easy to import but it is not good for editing, because it takes long time to render after the importing. How can I shorten the process? Is there a way to import Panasonic P2 MXF to Final Cut Pro without rendering? Thanks for help”.

Panasonic AJ-HPX3000 Panasonic’s top of the line camera is a 1920×1080, 10-bit 4:2:2 color sampling beauty. It uses a 2.2 million pixel 3-CCD block and records using the new AVC-intra codec to capture true native 1080p images at 24p, 25p & 30p frame rates. This codec, thanks to a low compression ratio at a video bit rate of 100 Mbps (1080/59.94i, 720/59.94p) and the easy-to-edit intra-frame compression system, is suitable for recording fast-moving subjects with no motion artifacts other than motion blur. However, the P2 MXF does not seem to work in Final Cut Pro well. Although it is reported that the “log and transfer” can help import the MXF files, stored onto the P2 card, actually there still exists some problems causing error when importing AG-HVX200 1080/60i MXF to FCP 6/7/X. A better workflow is to convert Panasonic AG-HVX200 1080/60i MXF to Apple ProRes 422 first, as it is the best codec for FCP editing. Below is the simple step-by-step guide for P2 camcorder users to keep and maintain 1080/50 mbps or 100 mbps from Panasonic AG-HVX200/AJ-HPX3000 MXF to Apple ProRes for FCP on iMac/MacBook Pro with Mac OS X, Leopard, Snow Leopard, Lion, Mountain Lion.

• Read More: Flawlessly Import and Edit Panasonic AG-HVX200 P2 MXF footage into iMovie 8/9/11

Cut and Transcode Panasonic AG-HVX200/AJ-HPX3000 MXF to Apple ProRes for Final Cut Pro editing
1. Backup your P2 MXF files structure to local computer.

2. Get Media Magician for Mac installed on your Mac.

Pavtube Media Magician for Mac offers an easy introduction to video editing with support for color adjustment, themes, easy to use effects, a simplistic timeline view and built-in camcorder wizard for ingesting video from camera/camcorder. Moreover, this smart app even exports intermediate codecs and professionals can export ProRes, AIC and DNxHD etc. for further post-production in FCP, iMovie/FCE, Avid, Adobe AE, etc.

Step 1: Run Media Magician for Mac.

To load stored MXF clips on your computer’s HDD, you can choose to “Import Media Files” or “Import Media Folder” to browse and load your source files from computer.

Step 2: Organize and edit Panasonic AG-HVX200 MXF videos in timeline.

Drag and drop the MXF videos to timeline. Here you can remove unwanted .mxf 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.

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

Step 4: Choose Apple ProRes codec as output format. For importing Panasonic P2 video to FCP, follow the steps to set Apple ProRes 422 preset:

1. Move your mouse to Editor, click on the tab.
2. Select “Final Cut Pro” group.
3. The default output format for FCP is Apple ProRes 422. To use other codec in the ProRes family, just select the desire codec (ProRes LT, Pro, HD, ProRes 4444) from the drop-down list of “Format” bar. Set bitrate and frame rate if necessary.

Step 5: Export Apple ProRes video for FCP 7/FCP X.

Press the plus sign (+) to add task for conversion. Select the task(s) and click on the triangle sign to start encoding Sony MXF to Apple ProRes 422 MOV.

After converting and merging the Panasonic P2 AVC-Intra MXF files, just import Apple ProRes 422 MOV to Final Cut Pro. In Final Cut Pro, follow pull-down menu- File/Import/Files… to import converted Panasonic P2 AVC-Intra MXF footage to FCP 6/7/X without rendering.

• Final Cut Pro Video Files Importing Tutorial: How To Import P2 footage into FCP from P2 card?

Tips: If you would like to edit Panasonic P2 AVC-Intra 50/100 MXF with FCE/iMovie, Avid, Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, etc, you can convert Panasonic P2 MXF to Mac itself bring format like ProRes MOV for FCE and iMovie, or transcode Panasonic AVC-Intra MXF to H.264 MOV, DV, AVI, M4V, MPG for Avid, Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects on Mac.

• Avid Media Files Importing Tutorial: How to Import Media Files to Avid?
• iMovie Videos Importing Workflow: How to Import Video files, Projects to iMovie?

Continue reading »]]> MOD and TOD videos are usually recorded by JVC, Canon, Panasonic camcorders. Many annoying problems will reveal when these camcorders’ lovers try to import MOD/TOD to Final Cut Pro 6/7 or FCP X and find they are difficult to use, they are not supported by most Mac Editing Software. At the same time, you’ll find that you can’t play MOD and TOD files on Quicktime or Windows Media Player and other video players.

Here are some questions from discussions.apple.com:

Question 1: Final Cut Pro X/Compressor & .MOD File Types

“I am using Final Cut Pro X and Compressor. The video camera I record with records in .MOD which final cut doesn’t recognize nor does compressor. I want to know what to convert the .MOD file to make it compatible with Final Cut Pro X but to also avoid ruining the quality of the video image. Any suggestions”

• Source: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4116824?start=0&tstart=0

Question 2: How to compress Canon FS200 recorded clips for FCP?

“I’ve been given lots of MOD (and MOI) files to edit. I realise I need to convert these files before I can import them into FCP. The question is what compression should I use? h.264, Apple DV PAL, the list is endless. The end result will be exported for the web. If it helps, the footage was recorded on a Canon FS200.”

Question 3: JVC HD7 and .TOD files in FCP or FCE

“I am interested in purchasing a JVC GZ-HD7 to use with Final Cut Express. The reason I’m posting here is I will also be using FCP on my school computers. Anyhow, JVC lists the filetype as mpeg-2 ts, but several websites have mentioned that the filetype is actually called .TOD. Does anyone know if this filetype will import into FCP or FCE without a hitch? Can’t seem to find a straight answer off of JVC’s website.

ON a side note, Anyone have any idea why the JVC GZ-HD7 varies in price so much with different retailers???? B&H photo is selling it for $799.00, yet many other sites like amazon are selling it for 1200.00 and up… Am I missing something? I’ve read the product description on B&H compared to others, and it seems to include the same hardware and accessories…”

• Source: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1668687?start=0&tstart=0

Question 4: JVC GZ-HD7E (.TOD) vs. Final Cut Pro 7

“The Mac world is really new to me, I have iMac, I have Final Cut Studio HD (the latest and updatet) and I have JVC GZ-HD7E camera – but they dont work together

I thought that this huge program would take .tod files but neither FCP or iMove likes these files.

Hope someone has some kind of answer that could help me, and if this is already postet somewhere else, im sorry then!”

• Source: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2409444?start=0&tstart=0

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When you capture live video from an JVC or Canon camcorder and try to edit them with Final Cut Pro or Final Cut Pro X, there are some things need to know previously:

1. JVC camera includes many series like JVC Everio, JVC GZ series, JVC Picsio camcorder, etc and most of them captures video in TOD, MOD, AVCHD video format. Such as:

JVC MOD Camcorders

• 2004: GZ-MC100 (SD), GZ-MC200 (SD)
• 2005: GZ-MG30 (HDD), GZ-MG70 (HDD)
• 2006: GZ-MG37 (HDD), GZ-MG77 (HDD), GZ-MG505 (HDD, SD/SDHC card)
• 2007: GZ-MG130 (HDD), GZ-MG155 (HDD), GZ-MG175 (HDD, SD/SDHC card), GZ-MG255 (HDD), GZ-MG555 (HDD, SD/SDHC card)
• 2008: GZ-MS100U (SD/SDHC card)
• 2008: GZ-MG7230 (30 GB HDD, MicroSD)
• 2009: GZ-MG630 (60 GB HDD, MicroSD), GZ-MG670 (80 GB HDD, MicroSD), GZ-MG680 (120 GB HDD, MicroSD)

JVC TOD Camcorders

• 2007: GZ-HD7 (HDD, SD/SDHC), GZ-HD3 (HDD, SD/SDHC)
• March 2008: GZ-HD5 (HDD, MicroSD), GZ-HD6 (HDD, MicroSD)
• June 2008: GZ-HD30, GZ-HD40 (HDD, MicroSD, capable of both TOD and AVCHD recording)

In addition, for MOD files, maybe it’s from internet or recorded by some camcorders like Canon FS series:

Canon MOD Camcorders

• 2008: FS100 (SDHC), FS10 (SDHC), FS11 (SDHC)
• 2009: FS200 (SDHC), FS21 (SDHC), FS22 (SDHC)[10]

Read More: MOD and TOD in Wikipedia

2. Final Cut Pro (abbreviated as FCP) and Final Cut Pro X (FCP X) read videos in ProRes, Quicktime, AIC MOV format not directly from a JVC camera.

3. The most recent version, Final Cut Pro X, Final Cut Pro X, run on Mac personal computers powered by Mac OS X version 10.6.7 or later and using Intel processors, FCP 6, FCP 7, FCE.

May be you are a photography lover who often shoot videos with JVC Everio, and have got a batch of TOD/MOD records which you want to edit with Final Cut Pro 6/7 or Final Cut Pro X.

Is there no way to import JVC Everio footages to Final Cut Pro (X) for further editing? The answer is no. TOD/MOD to FCP Converter for Mac provides you a good solution to convert TOD or MOD to FCP X importable form with original quality, say Apple ProRes MOV (keeping all the original setting). The TOD/MOD to FCP Conversion will be finished with several mouse movements on shareware application TOD to FCP Converter. And converted MOV files can be imported to FCP X for further editing. Of course, it also facilitates your editing TOD/MOD in iMovie as well. By the way, the program is fully compatible with OS X Lion 10.7. and you can have our pro customer service for further instruction.

Email:

• Mac: macsupport@pavtube.com
• Windows: support@pavtube.com

Unsupported video files really both a lot of people, but the professional HD Video Converter for FCP X works all problems out. After convert JVC/Canon TOD, MOD video, the Mac conversion push you to adjust video resolution, frame rate, bitrate to keep the original high definition, crop out unnecessary objects, split video files into small segments, tune video saturation, etc.

Tutorial: How To Convert TOD, MOD files to Apple ProRes MOV Format for FCP (X)?

Step 1. Download PavtubeMOD/TOD to FCP Converter on your Mac, and run it after installation. As soon as the main interface comes up, click “Add video” or “Add from folder” to load your source MOD or TOD files.

Tips: The program support batch load and convert and merge video file.

Step 2. Click the “Format” bar and choose the output format. Click and choose “Final Cut Pro -> Apple ProRes 422 (*.mov) format”, it’s the best format if you want to edit MOD/TOD files in Final Cut Pro (X).

Step 3. You can click “Settings” button to adjust the output parameters as you want. Such as resolution and bitrate, you can also keep it as default.  (Optional)

Step 4. You can click ““, edit the .tod or .mod video files by editing features including cropping, trimming, and special effects. (Optional)

Step 5. After every thing necessary was selected, you can click the big red “Convert” button to start converting TOD/MOD file to Apple ProRes MOV for Final Cut Pro X on Mac(Mac Mountain Lion 10.8 included).

After converting, you just need to import converted videos to Final Cut Pro 7 or Final Cut Pro X, and then you can edit the recorded footages without rendering.

Launch Final Cut Pro 7/Final Cut Pro X on your Mac and you can see the layout of the Final Cut Pro Interface. From under the File command at the top of the interface, select “Import” and “Files”. Then select one converted file from the Choose a File window and press the “Choose” button to choose this file. So that, you could easy import movies into Final Cut Pro 7or Final Cut Pro X for editing.

• FCP X Import Workfolw: How to import video files to Final Cut Pro X
• FCP 7 Import Workflow: The Correct Way to Ingest and Import AVCHD to Final Cut Pro 7

Continue reading »]]> There are 2 ways to import footage from the Sony XDCAM camcorder to Final Cut Pro. You can directly import XDCAM-HD files by attaching your camcorder (with the memory cards still in it) to the computer via USB cable or by removing the cards from the camcorder and placing them in the express card slot of a MacBook Pro. Both methods require Final Cut Studio and Sony XDCAM Transfer Software (a free download from Sony).

Method 1: Express Slot and USB Cable to Camcorder

Step 1: Connect Cables

After shooting, remove the SxS card from camcorder and place it in the express slot of laptop; or attach the camcorder (with the SxS card still inside) to the computer via the supplied USB cable and turn the camera power switch to the Media position.

Step 2: Import Sony XDCAM MXF to Final Cut Pro

In Final Cut Pro, initiate the import by using the pull-down menu- File/Import/Sony XDCAM. This opens the Sony XDCAM Transfer software interface.

Step 3. Arrange Your Clips

Select the clip to view from the thumbnail images in the top half of the interface. Play the clip in the viewing window at the bottom of the interface. You can also mark “ins” and “outs” if you just want to import part of the clip. Add comments and other information to the clip in the lower right area of the interface.

Step 4: Import All Your Clips

Click on the Import button to ingest the clip to Final Cut Pro. You can import all the clips on the card by selecting all the clips and them clicking on Import.

• Read More: How to connect/transfer/copy Sony XDCAM Media to Mac?

Method 2: Ingest Sony XDCAM MXF videos and encode the MXF clips to FCP Compatible Codec

This method should work with most Mac computer. If you run into a problem when importing Sony XDCAM, XDCAM HD and XDCAM EX media to FCP, here’s an alternative workaround: use Media Magician for Mac to ingest Sony XDCAM MXF videos and encode the XDCAM MXF clips to Apple ProRes 422 codec, which is naturally supported by Final Cut Pro 6, 7 and FCP X. The app can also be used to cut and merge MXF files, or convert MXF to QuickTime codec for playing on Mac, iPad, iPhone and other iOS devices.

Step 1: Connect your Sony XDCAM camera to Mac and import MXF from Sony XDCAM to Media Magician for Mac.

Connect your Sony XDCAM camera to Mac computer and launch Pavtube 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 MXF files you’d like to import to FCP, and then press “Start” to import MXF to Media Magician library.

Step 2: Organize and edit Sony XDCAM MXF videos in timeline.

Drag and drop the Sony XDCAM MXF clip to timeline for editing from library. Here you can remove unwanted .mxf 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.

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

Step 4: Choose Apple ProRes codec as output format.

Here you can set common video format like AVI, MKV, MP4, MOV, MPG, etc as well as intermediate codec for editing software. For importing Sony XDCAM MXF to Final Cut Pro, follow the steps to set Apple ProRes 422 preset:

• 1. Move your mouse to Editor, click on the tab.
• 2. Select “Final Cut Pro” group.
• 3. The default output format for FCP is Apple ProRes 422. To use other codec in the ProRes family, just select the desire codec (ProRes LT, Pro, HD, ProRes 4444) from the drop-down list of “Format” bar. Set bitrate and frame rate if necessary.

Step 5: Export Apple ProRes video for FCP 7/FCP X

Press the plus sign (+) to add task for conversion. Select the task(s) and click on the triangle sign to start encoding Sony XDCAM MXF to Apple ProRes 422 MOV.

Step 6: Import Apple ProRes 422 MOV to Final Cut Pro

In Final Cut Pro, follow pull-down menu- File/Import/Files… to import converted Sony XDcam footage to FCP without rendering on Mac.

PS. If you have any problem, pls contact with macsupport@pavtube.com to get more information. You also can leave a message on Pavtube Community or Pavtube Facebook, we will answer your questions as soon as possilble.