Continue reading »]]> Are you a beginner of video editing? Do you want to edit the hundreds of movies shot by cameras, camcorders, Smart Phones, and tablets in various formats? Do you want to save your storage space by trimming and deleting unwanted parts from MTS or M2TS videos without quality loss? Do you want to convert camcorder videos into Apple ProRes, AVI, or other formats for better editing in Final Cut Pro, Avid Studio, Adobe Premiere, Pinnacle Studio, Sony Vegas, Windows Movie Maker, etc? Do you want to remove ads from TiVo shows and watch them on your tablets, SmartPhone or Apple TV?

If yes, you can do all of the above with one simple and easy video editing software for beginners, Pavtube Media Magician, or its Mac version, Pavtube Media Magician for Mac.

Free Download and Trial for Windows or Mac

• Free Trial on Windows
• Free Trial on Mac 10.5 & 10.6
• Free Trial on Mac 10. 7 & 10.8

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What can Pavtube Media Magician (for Win or Mac) help you?

Input:

Camcorder footages: MXF, AVCHD(MTS, M2TS), AVCHD Lite(MTS, M2TS), MOV,TOD, MOD, etc.

Other video formats: *.avi,*.divx, *.wmv, *.wma, *.asf, *.dvr-ms, *.wav, dts in wav, *.rm, *.rmvb, *.ra, *.mov, *.qt, *.mp4, *.3gp, *.3g2, *.dv, *.m4b, *.m4v, *.m4a, *.aac, *.flv, *.f4v from YouTube, Hulu, Fox, etc., *.dat, *.mpg, *.m2v, *.m2t, *.m2ts, *.ts, *.tp, *.evo, *.mkv, *.dv, *.flc, *.fli,*.gxf, *.pss, *.mvi, *.mtv, *.vdr, *.pmf, *.pva, *.k3g, *.vp6, *.nsv, *.nuv, *.dmskm

Output:

Common format: MPEG-2 (*.mpg), MPEG-4 (*.mp4), *.avi, *.wmv, *.mov, *.mkv, *.m2ts

Device: Andoid Tablets and smart phones, Windows Tablets and smart phones, iPad, iPhone, Apple TV, HD Player, PSP/PS3, HDV

Editor:

• For Windows: Avid Media Composer (*.mov), Adobe Premiere & Sony Vegas (*.wmv, *.mov, *.mpg), Adobe After Effect(*.mpg, *.mov), Cybelink PowerDirector (*.avi, *.wmv), Pinnacle Studio(*.mp4, *.mpg).
• For Mac: iMovie and Final Cut Express (*.mov), Avid Studio (*.mov), Adobe Premiere (*.wmv, *.mpg, *.mov), Adobe After Effect (*.mpg, *.mov), Apple Aperture (*.mov), Final Cut Pro (Apple ProRes MOV).

Lossless: Original format (*.mts, *.m2ts, *.mod, *.tod), MKV (*.mkv)

Online: YouTube (*.mp4, *.webm)

Features:

Import/ backup/ manage camcorder footages
The smart camcorder wizard helps connect camcorders to PC and import directly from camcorder or backup camcorder videos to local.

Lossless output from AVCHD MTS to MTS or MKV
Output Apple Prores MOV, lossless MTS/MKV, MPEG-2/4, AVI/WMV/MOV/MKV/M2TS.

Output Apple ProRes MOV for editing in FCP without rendering (Mac only)
As long as you have right version of FCP installed, you can output Apple ProRes MOV like Apple ProRes 422, Apple ProRes 4444, etc.

Timeline editing easily trim, cut, delete, and join
To output videos you can drag relative source from resource list and trim, cut, delete, and join. You can seek the clip frame by frame.

Add 3D and other special effects to clips on timeline
Want to get 3D effect to your clips? It’s easy with Media Magician. Just a one click, you can add the effect. And you can also add simple Gauss blur, old film, etc.

Enlarge or reduce original volume
If the volume is too large or too small, you can drag bar in Volume Adjustment section to enlarge or reduce.

Adjust brightness, contrast, and saturation
For footages shot with low light or bad color, you can easily make them better with the help of brightness, contrast, and saturation adjustment.

Easily choose output formats with one click
With the preset output profiles, you can choose the right settings with just one click.

Output different formats from the same sources on timeline
In conversion settings section, you can create several conversion tasks with different output formats and output from the same sources placed on timeline.

Directly upload videos to YouTube
The converted videos can be uploaded to YouTube directly as long as you have set your account and relative information.

Output M2TS, MPEG-4/2, MKV, MOV, WMV, AVI files
It supports output formats like M2TS, MPEG-4 (*.mp4), MPEG-2 (*.mpg), MKV, MOV, WMV, and AVI. You can reset parameters with ease.

Easy steps to edit videos with the easiest & best video editing software

Step 1. Import video clips from hard drive or camcorder.

If importing from camcorder, clicking on the camcorder button, Media Magician will help you detect the camcorder videos. You can preview and choose which one to import, sort them by year/month/date/type, or backup files to Local hard drive.

Step 2. Before editing or converting, you must drag the imported clips to timeline.

On the timeline, you can cut, trim, delete, rearrange clips without difficulties.

Put your cursor on the preview window while the video is playing, you can choose the specific frames for trimming or cutting. If you imported original MTS or M2TS files with same parameters, trim and cut the videos on timeline, and choose lossless output format in conversion tab, you will get the MTS or M2TS files trimmed or cut without any quality loss. This will help you always keep useful clips and periods. Save your storage space and keep you from spending money on those expensive storage spaces.

Step 3. Edit the video by Add effects, adjust brightness and volume, etc.
You can go to the right tabs to add special effects like aged file, simple gauss blur, gray, etc. If you shot the video in vertical or upside down, you can easily flip it to the right location with just one click. If the video is shot in dark environment, you can even adjust it to make it brighter. Volumes also can be enlarged or reduced easily.

If you like, you can also add red-blue or red-green 3D effect to the video.
Note: Options in this section will not take effect on the clip if you want to output lossless video formats.

Step 4. Choose the right output format and convert in batch.

Switching to the conversion tab, you can create conversion tasks by clicking the “+” button. Highlight a task on the left, and you can choose the output format on the right under relative category. Clips you placed and edited on the timeline can be output into different formats in batch.

Note:

1. Lossless: Only MTS/M2TS/MOD/TOD format videos with the same parameters can be output without loss. You can either output original format or MKV format.

2. Online: As long as you have inserted your account info, you can upload the output video automatically after conversion. And the video can be saved into MP4 or WebM format.

3. If you are using the Mac version, you can output Apple Prores format for importing and editing in Final Cut Pro without rendering. But you must install Final Cut Pro 7 or above in advance.

With the different output formats options, you can convert videos for editing in non-linear video editing software, Android/ iOS/ Windows 8 Tablets & Phones, uploading to Youtube and more. You will find it an all-in-one and intuitive video editor and converter.

Find the words too annoying? The following animation will show you the steps to edit videos with Media Magician.

Reviews from customers of Pavtube Media Magician and Pavtube Media Magician for Mac:

1. Works well on Windows 8. Successfully transcoded a .TiVo file to MP4 format.

– D.C.

2. Runs flawlessly on Win7. It does lots of things Moviemaker can’t do, like changing brightness etc. The conversions can be very useful as well. For me it is good to have. Thanks

– Sepp

3. …The benefit of lossless trimming for me is that often I set up one or more cameras at an event and let them roll, sometimes for hours. This is done in anticipation that something interesting might occur in that camera’s field of view in the next couple of hours. Out of all those hours there might only be a few minutes I really want to keep. This results in enormous files with only a few seconds of really good footage. Ideally I wish to keep only the good bits and delete the rest but so far I’ve found no way to extract the bits I want to keep and delete the rest without any loss of video quality…

– Doug Thompson

4. Installed fine on Mac 10.7 and Win 7 ultimate 64.

– Beth

5. Pavtube Media Magican! Perfect for my use. I shot movie of my younger daughter few years ago. And with today I succeed to take still pictures out of the movie. And same time I edited mistakes out of the movie. I highly recommend it for Mac users!

– Jari, Lahti, Finland

6. Very nice program. I can now leave my PC and some of the editing software I’ve purchased over the years and now use my Mac with Media Magician. I just converted a bunch of Thanksgiving and Christmas videos and added some cool effects as well.

– Trey, Dallas, Texas

7. A very good program, I was able to import an AVI file, crop it to size, then imported an MP4 file, added the two files together play them without rendering and exported to an MKV file within minutes. Highly recommended.

– Stuart, Wordsley, West Midlands

Continue reading »]]> MXF is a file format for the exchange of programme material between servers, tape streamers and to digital archives. MXF bundles together video, audio, and programme data, such as text – together termed essence – along with metadata and places them into a wrapper. MXF does not force the use of certain video or audio compression types but also the internal index and partition structure can vary. The body can be based on several different types of material (essence) including MPEG, DV and uncompressed video and audio, it also uses the SMPTE KLV data coding system, which has the advantage of being a recognized standard.

• See also: What is MXF | What can MXF do

The MXF container is not so widely accepted as MP4, QuickTime MOV, and M4V format. Neither does QuickTime plays MXF format nor does iTunes stream MXF files. Professional editing software like Final Cut Pro and Avid support a range of MXF footage (but not all of them), while iMovie won’t let your import MXF to at all. That’s where MXF Converter comes in (learn how to convert MXF files on Mac). This article outlines the Free and Best 6 MXF Converters for Mac programs reviewed, go ahead to learn and compare them by yourself.

• Pavtube MXF Converter for Mac
• Aiseesoft MXF Converter for Mac
• Calibrated{Q} MXF Import
• MXF4mac Player
• MXF Import QT
• Pavtube Media Magician for Mac

1. Pavtube MXF Converter for Mac

Pavtube MXF Converter for Mac is an easy-to-use and intuitive Mac tool for users of Panasonic P2 camcorders and Canon XF series cameras. It lets you imports P2 MXF, XDCAM, and Canon XF .mxf footage and export editable Apple ProRes/DVCPRO/HDV/Avid DNxHD/AIC codec so as to import to video editing software like iMovie, Final Cut Pro (X), Final Cut Express, Avid Media Composer, Adobe Premiere, and more. More than generating editable files for video editing software, Pavtube Mac MXF Converter also comes with optimized format presets for almost all popular multimedia devices, such as iPad, the new iPad 3, iPhone, iTouch, Apple TV 3, Motorola Xoom, Asus Transformer Pad Infinity 700, Google Nexus 7 Android 4.1 Tablet, Samsung Galaxy S3, Acer Iconia Tab, Samsung Galaxy Tab, HTC Evo 4G, Samsung Galaxy X S II, PS Vita, PS3, Xbox 360, etc. In general, the Pavtube MXF Converter for Mac offers best MXF Playback and Import solutions with its extensive output options and flexible settings.

System Requirements:

• Mac OS X Leopard (10.5), Snow Leopard (10.6), Lion (10.7), Mountain Lion (10.8)
• 1G Hz or above Intel processor
• 512 MB physical RAM (memory) or above
• 1024*768 or higher resolution display.

Price: $29

2. Aiseesoft MXF Converter for Mac

Aiseesoft MXF Converter for Mac can convert MXF file to other popular video format like MP4, MPG, 3GP, MKV, AVI, WMV, FLV, VOB, SWF, DV, M4V, and MOV, etc. on Mac. Also this application supports converting MXF to 3D videos on Mac. You are allowed to convert MXF recordings to other video format that can play well on any portable devices such iPad 2, The new iPad, iPhone 4S, iPod, Apple TV, and Android devices, etc. It also has multiple editing functions to help you edit different MXF recordings instead of professional video editing software.

System Requirements:

• Mac OS X 10.5 or above
• Intel processor
• 512MB RAM, Super VGA (800×600) resolution
• 16-bit graphics card or higher

Price: $29

3. Calibrated{Q} MXF Import

Calibrated{Q} Import components are QuickTime components for NATIVE Importing and Playback of supported MXF or XDCAM EX MP4 Files in QuickTime Player and CatDV on Windows & OSX, and in Final Cut Studio 2 & 3 Applications, and in Final Cut Pro X (MXF files only) and other QuickTime enabled applications on OSX. With Calibrated{Q} MXF Import, you can import and work with DNxHD .MXF files in Adobe Premiere Pro CS 5.0/5.5/6.0, Adobe After Effects CS 5.0/5.5/6.0, or Adobe Media Encode CS 5.0/5.5/6.0.

System Requirements: Mac OSX (Intel) 10.5/10.6/10.7

Price: Free for 30 days

4. MXF4mac Player

MXF4mac Player can open most MXF variations. It supports, XDCAM HD, AVC-Intra, JPEG2000 (optional with J2K Codec) , DNxHD, HDV, Uncompressed SD/HD, Uncompressed Avid 10 bit, DVC-Pro HD, IMX-D10,DV, Meridien, Sony Proxy and more.The MXF4mac Player is also able to play Panasonic P2 XML documents like movie files with video and audio linked together. Of course it is compatible to QuickTime movies and more (e.g. .mp4, .avi, .m4v, .wav, .aif, .aiff). Open or just drag nearly any flavour of MXF files into the MXF4mac Player to watch it, even in full screen.

System Requirements: Mac OS X v10.6, v10.7, v10.8

Price: $0 (freeware)

5. MXF Import QT

MXF Import QT is an advanced MXF reader for QuickTime that supports MXF variations from broadcast media, ingest, transcoding, playout devices, hard disk recorders, and MXF-based software. MXF Import QT is a versatile solution for direct conversion-free, real-time MXF access and editing that works with Final Cut Studio, Final Cut Server, and Logic Pro. It allows natively open and access a broad range of MXF variations without converting or referencing to the QuickTime movie format. The unique integration enables Final Cut Studio, Final Cut Server and other solutions to directly work with native MXF media.

System Requirements: Mac OS X v10.6, v10.7, v10.8

Price: 499 EUR

6. Media Magician for Mac

Pavtube Media Magician for Mac is a useful timeline-oriented video editor and converter. It helps edit and convert not only camcorder videos, but also MXF, MTS, TS, Tivo, MKV, FLV, and so on for further editing in non-linear editing software, watching on iOS/Android/Windows RT tablets and phones, or direct uploading to YouTube.

It features smart camcorder wizard, lossless trim/cut MTS/M2TS frame by frame, preset optimized output formats, Apple ProRes encoding (for Mac only), 3D effect adding, and more for you to explore.

Nowadays, kinds of camcorders record videos in HD or Full HD. Professional Photographers like to edit their camera clips without quality lossless. So as to keep the video quality as good as original. With a mac computer, there are many useful editing software. Like FCP (X), FCE, iMovie, Adobe Premiere, Avid Studio, iPhoto etc. If you often use such editing software, you may find, each editing software has the most suitable codec for editing. Which will help us maintain video quality to a large extent. For example, FCP series prefer Apple ProRes codec, while Apple Intermediate Codec (AIC) is most suitable for iMovie or FCE. However, our camcorders record videos in kinds of video formats, when you import them into the editing software, sometimes, it will take a long time for rendering. In fact, it’s the process of transcoding.

System Requirements:

• Mac OS X Leopard (10.5), Snow Leopard (10.6), Lion (10.7), Mountain Lion (10.8)
• 1G Hz or above Intel processor.
• 512 MB physical RAM (memory) or above.
• 1024*768 or higher resolution display.

Price: $49

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This article introduces the Top 5 Best Free Video Editing Software for Mac users. Get the best free video editor for Mac and edit your videos freely on Mac OS.

Many people are looking of free Mac video editing software since they have tons of videos and are eager to edit the videos either for better presentation or preservation. Are there any free video editing software for Mac users that are really good? Many people ask this in forums. And here we list the 5 best free video editor for Mac for your reference.

1. Apple iMovie
2. Avidemux
3. Blender
4. ZS4 Video Editor
5. HyperEngine-AV

Top 5 Best Free Video Editing Software for Mac

Top 1. Apple iMovie

iMovie comes with every new Mac (OS X) and you don’t need to pay extra money for it. The latest iMovie 11 is a great and free video editor for the Mac with many great features such as movie trailer, one step effect, audio editing, etc. And in just a few steps, you can share your movies to YouTube or export videos for your iPhone, iPad, etc. However, iMovie is only free if you buy a new Mac. And when getting started with iMovie, you will find it hard to master this software. All in all, iMovie is one of the best free video editing software for Mac users and receives good reputation. You can learn some iMovie video editing tips and trick at how to use iMovie.

Note: iMovie supported video formats are very limited to MP4, MOV and M4V. If you want to edit videos in other formats in iMovie, you can use a Mac Media Magician to convert your videos first. Otherwise, you should turn to other Mac video editing software which supports many video and movie formats, like Pavtube iMedia Converter for Mac (Windows version is available too).

Top 2. Avidemux

Avidemux is another great free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, Linux and BSD under the GNU GPL license and supports a variety of video, image and audio formats, including AVI, DVD compatible MPEG files, MP4, MOV, ASF, JPG, AAC, AC3, etc. High compatibility with many video formats is the highlight of this free video editing software for Mac.

However, the video editing functions are limited. If you want more video editing functions (such as: lossless trim, split, cut, rotate, flip, timeline editing without rendering and merge etc.), you can turn to Pavtube Media Magician for Mac, which costs $49, but can help you edit your videos much better and directly upload videos to YouTube. Support Mac Mountain lion 10.8.

Top 3. Blender

Blender is a free 3D graphics application and considered as one of the best free video editor for Mac. It can be used for modeling, rigging, texturing, UV unwrapping, skinning, animating, rendering, water and smoke simulations, particle and other simulations, non-linear editing, compositing, and creating interactive 3D applications, including animated film, video games, or other visual effects.

Blender has lots of advanced features like powerful character animation tools, modifier-based modeling tools, a node-based material and compositing system, Python for embedded scripting and so on.

Like Avidemux, Blender is available for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD.

Top 4. ZS4 Video Editor

ZS4 Video Editor is a free video editor for Mac which provides media experts with a facility to combine a variety of media types into one (or more) output file(s). Besides Mac, it is also available for Windows and Linux.

ZS4 Video Editor comes with over 150 built-in video effects which can help you bring your videos to the next level instantly.

Top 5. HyperEngine-AV

HyperEngin-AV is a free video editing software for Mac used to capture, edit, organize process, and export video, audio, and text to create DVD quality movies and slide shows. It comes with twelve studio-quality effects from Arboretum’s Hyperprism suite of audio processors. Besides, it offers text features to display credits, section titles, or karaoke lyrics with fully editable font, size, type, color, style, alignment, and scroll direction. Definitely, HyperEngin-AV is really a good free video editor for Mac users.

Tips: If you want to burn videos to DVD after editing, you can user Mac DVD Creator to help you, which can burn all regular videos and photos to DVD with professional-looking DVD menus.

Compare Free version with Retail version

Learn more Video Burning Tips and Guide:

• Free Burn AVI, MKV, MP4 to DVD on Mac
• Free Burn YouTube videos/Vimeo/Torrent movies to DVD
• How to burn Final Cut Pro projects to DVD on Mac
• Quick burn DVD folder to DVD on Mac
• Burn VIDEO_TS to DVD on Mac
• How to Make a DVD Photo Slideshow with Transitions and Music on Mac

Continue reading »]]> Media Magician for Mac helps manage/backup/combine/convert your camcorder footages and videos for better editing in FCP/ FCE/ Avid Studio/ iMovie/ Adobe Premere/ Adobe After Effect/ Apple Aperture, playback on iPad/ iPhone/ Apple TV/ Android Tablets, and sharing on YouTube.

The simple editing functionalities help you frame-by-frame trim, join, cut, delete clips on timeline; add 3D and gauss blur effects, etc. You can flip video horizontally, vertically, clockwise, or counter-clockwise as well. Volume can also be enlarged or reduces for output.

Moreover, the conversion management list helps create conversion tasks with clicks and output files with different formats from same sources placed on timeline. You can output lossless MTS/MKV from MTS source files which makes it possible to lossless join your camcorder AVCHD MTS clips into one in seconds. (click the Guides to learn more solution)

In a word, it’s a useful HDcam assistant software with smart camcorder wizard helps make better use of your camcorder videos.

Product Page: http://www.pavtube.com/media-magician-mac/

System Requirements

• 1G Hz or above Intel processor.
• Mac OS X Leopard (10.5), Snow Leopard (10.6), Lion (10.7), Mountain Lion (10.8)
• 512 MB physical RAM (memory) or above.
• 1024*768 or higher resolution display.

Giveaway

Pavtube Studio is giving away Media Magician for Mac FREE until May 7, 2013.

Promo page:
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Continue reading »]]> If you want to accurate Split/Cut Video Clips or Fast Join & Merge together multiple video files for playback but have no idea of what app to use on your Mac computer, refer to our 2016 Top 5 Best Mac Video Splitter/Cutter and Fast Video Joiner.

• 1. Pavtube Video Converter for Mac
• 2. Pavtube Media Magician for Mac
• 3. QuickTime Pro ($30)
• 4. iMovie (Built-in Free App)
• 5. MPEG Streamclip (Free)

Top 1. Pavtube Video Converter for Mac ($35)

Introduction: Pavtube Video Converter for Mac is an all-in-one Video Converter on Mac OS X. It is able to do format conversion among various popular video and audio formats, including Flash Video/YouTube video (*.flv, *.f4v), HD Video (*.tod, *.mod, *.mov, *.mts, *.m2t, *.m2ts, *.ts, *.tp, *.trp, *.evo, *.mkv, *.dv ), General Video (*.avi, *.mpg, *.wmv, etc), QuickTime video(*.mov), DVR Videos (*.tivo) and more. In that way, you can edit or play your video files with different video editing software and universal portable players. The Mac video converter helps you to convert video files for your new iPad 3, iPhone 5, Apple TV 3, Galaxy Tab 2, Kindle Fire HD, Nook HD Tablet,Surface RT/Pro, iTunes, QuickTime Player, iMovie, FCE, Final Cut Pro, Avid Media Composer, iDVD, and more.

Supported Formats:

Input: Video formats (*.avi,*.divx, *.wmv, *.wma, *.asf, *.dvr-ms, *.wav, dts in wav, *.rm, *.rmvb, *.ra, *.mov, *.qt, *.mp4, *.3gp, *.3g2, *.dv, *.m4b, *.m4v, *.m4a, *.aac, *.flv, *.f4v (YouTube, Hulu, Fox, etc.), *.dat, *.mpg, *.vob, *.mod, *.tod, *.mxf (partial), *.mov from JVC, Panasonic, Cannon, Sony cameras and camcorders, *.m2v, *.m2t, *.m2ts (Blu-ray), *.ts, *.tp, *.evo, *.mkv, *.dv, *.tivo); Audio formats (*.au, *.mp3, *.mp2, *.flac, *.ape, *.ogg, *.8svx, *.aiff,*.aif, *.caf, *.dts, *.smv, *.tta, *.voc)

Output: *.avi, *.wmv, *.asf, *.mpg, *.mp4, *.3gp, *.3g2, *.mov, *.mkv, *.m4v, *.vob, *.dv, Apple ProRes 422 (*.mov), Apple ProRes 4444 (*.mov), DVCPRO (*.mov), HDV (*.mov)

Split/Merge Features:

• 1. Merge multiple AVI, WMV, MP4, MPG, etc files into one big file.
• 2. Trim a duration from each video clip and combine these individual clips into one file.
• 3. Split one video file into 2 or more files evenly.
• 4. Split one video clip by every specified time frame (e.g. split a TiVo show by every 20 mins).
• 5. Split one big file by specified file size (e.g. split and save one MKV into VOB by every 1000MB).
• 6. Export video in AVI, MP4, MPG, MKV, etc with specified quality (high, medium, low quality).
• 7. Split large movie files quickly into H.264 videos for Android/iOS/Windows devices

Top 2. Pavtube Media Magician for Mac ($45)

Pavtube Media Magician for Mac is a user-friendly package designed for video transferring, compressing, converting and entry-level video editing. It helps you transfer any AVCHD (and other HD cam) videos to Mac HDD, make your own film with some basic editing, and upload your masterpiece to YouTube. Also, it gets your MTS, M2TS, TOD, MOD, MOV, MXF video into the correct format to suit your project of Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere Pro, Avid MC,iMovie/FCE, etc. No matter you are an experienced videographer or a video-editing novice, you will be very impressed with its easy-to-use process and its compatibility with a wide variety of cameras/camcorders footage, such as MXF, AVCHD*(MTS, M2TS), AVCHD Lite*(MTS, M2TS), MOV, TOD, MOD, MP4, AVI, etc.

Supported Formats:

Media Magician for Mac supports the same import and export formats as Pavtube Video Converter for Mac does.

Split/Merge Features:

• 1. Merge multiple AVI, WMV, MP4, MPG, etc files into one big file.
• 2. Cut out junk frames from each video and join the rest clips while exporting your self-made film.
• 3. Export video in AVI, MP4, MPG, MKV, etc with specified quality (high, medium, low quality).
• 4. Split large movie files quickly into H.264 videos for Android/iOS/Windows devices

Related Guide:

• How to trim/cut avchd mts clips frame by frame
• How to split and join videos for uploading to YouTube
• How to Trim/Cut MP4 files from Gopro
• How to split/cut/reorder/rerge/re-wrap AVI clips
• Combine HD footage in MTS, MP4 and MOV formats into a single video
• Cut/Join Sony Cyber-shot W730 H.264 MP4 videos clips for iMovie 11
• Combine/Join raw 1080 60p/50p MTS for streaming to DLNA-compliant Players

Top 3. QuickTime 7 Pro ($30)

QuickTime 7 Pro can convert your media to different formats, so you can watch a movie or video on your iPhone, iPod, and Apple TV. You can also use QuickTime 7 Pro to record video and share everything you make with friends and family. QuickTime Player Pro lets you import and convert tracks from compact disk (CD) audio to QuickTime, AIFF, or WAV. You can also import karaoke files into QuickTime Player Pro and maintain the text track. QuickTime Player Pro lets you import MIDI files, modify them (change instruments, for example) and save them as QuickTime audio, AIFF, or modified QuickTime MIDI. With QuickTime 7 Pro, you can record audio and video directly from your built-in iSight camera, FireWire camcorder, or microphone. You can even trim what you’ve recorded to the ideal length.

Supported Formats:

Input: MOV, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, 3GPP, 3GPP2, JPEG, DV, Motion JPEG, AVI, MQV, H.264, AIFF/AIFC, Audio CD, CAF, MOV, MP3, MPEG-4, AU, WAV, iTunes audio

Output: H.264, MPEG-4, Sorenson Video, H.263, H.261 (MP4, MOV, M4V, 3GP, 3G2)

Split/Merge Features:

• 1. Take several video files and merge them into one video movie or slide-show.
• 2. Split large movie files quickly into H.264 videos for iOS devices.

Top 4. iMovie (Built-in Free App)

iMovie is a proprietary video editing software application sold by Apple for the Mac and iOS (iPhone, iPad, ipad mini and iPod touch). iMovie imports video footage to the Mac using either the FireWire interface on most MiniDV format digital video cameras or the computer’s USB port. It can also import video and photo files from a hard drive. From there, the user can edit the photos and video clips and add titles, music, and effects, including basic color correction and video enhancement tools and transitions such as fades and slides. The latest iMovie 11 has the ability to make trailers for home movies, more control over audio, instant replay and flash and hold effects, facial recognition, news themes, and the ability to watch the video on a Mac, iPad, iPhone/iPod touch, or Apple TV, as well as sharing on Facebook and YouTube.

Supported Formats:

Input: DV, DV Widescreen, HDV 1080i (25 and 30 fps), HDV 720p (25 and 30 fps), MPEG 4 Simple Profile, iSight, AVCHD (.mts, .m2ts)

Output: MOV, MP4, M4V, MPEG-4, M-JPEG, QuickTime

Split/Merge Features:

• 1. Join together all the video sequence in the current iMovie project.
• 2. Cut out junk frames from each video.

Top 5. MPEG Streamclip (Free)

Despite its slightly unintuitive user interface, MPEG Streamclip is a highly effective and versatile video encoder and converter. MPEG Streamclip is more than a simple encoder. It also works as an editor, converter and player. The application supports almost any video format and can export converted files to any format of your choice. Despite its slightly unintuitive interface, which might put off first time users, MPEG Streamclip is actually relatively easy to use. Just select your file, choose a compression type and let MPEG Streamclip do the rest. You’ll find a wide choice of settings which will let you adjust quality, encoding level and bitrate of videos among other things.

Supported Formats:

Input: MPEG, VOB, PS, M2P, MOD, VRO, DAT, MOV, DV, AVI, MP4, TS, M2T, MMV, REC, VID, AVR, M2V, M1V, MPV, AIFF, M1A, MP2, MPA, AC3

Output: MOV, AVI, MP4, DV

Split/Merge Features:

• 1. Join (stitch) together multiple video files
• 2. Handle multiple audio tracks and works with files larger than 4GB

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Media Magician for Mac helps you lossless trim/split/cut MTS/M2TS/MOD/TOD, edit HD camcorder videos and output for Mac Editing Software(FCP, FCP X, FCE, iMovie, Avid, Premiere Pro etc.) or iOS/Android/Windows 8 Tablets & Phones, and more.

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Pavtube Media Magician for Mac helps you:

• Edit/convert Canon/Sony/Panasonic/JVC camcorder videos
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• Output videos for iOS/Android devices or editing software
• Directly upload camcorder videos to YouTube

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Continue reading »]]> The Mac has long been the homestead for effective and easy video editing, graphic design, and video compressing for many professionals and novices alike. Maybe you want to throw together a few video clips. Maybe you have more time and want to fine-tune every edit. Or maybe you just want to flip through clips the way you flip through album covers in iTunes. To accomplish these tasks, you don’t really need invest on professional video editors like Final Cut Pro and Avid Studio. If you are at all interested in getting your creative juices flowing, video wise, iMovie works fine for novices. If, however, iMovie can’t import or handle your video in the way you want, there are lots of other smaller and still great apps available. Want to get your hands on some decent iMovie alternatives for satisfying all your video editing needs? Well, we’ve come up Top 5 iMovie alternatives that will take care of your tweaking requirements on Mac.

1. Media Magician for Mac

Media Magician for Mac is a user-friendly package for AVCHD transferring, compressing and entry-level video editing. It’s very handy to back up AVCHD (and other HD video recordings) to Mac HDD and export their own short film with just some simple editing, which is quite intuitive- any video from the media library can be dragged and dropped to the timeline where you cut video by frame-accurate, trash undesired frames, join multiple AVCHD clips together, set video effect including 3D Red-Blue/Red-Cyan effect, mute (or articulate) audio, rotate video, take snapshot, etc.

What set Media Magician apart from other video editing software is its massive import and export formats. Comparing with iMovie, this app accepts much more formats: MP4, MOV, M4V, AVI, MKV, MTS, M2TS, TOD, MOD, MOV, MXF, VOB, ect. Any video can be thrown in it for editing. In terms of export format, it’s also impressive, there are Lossless M2TS/MKV output is intended for seamless merge of multiple AVCHD clips; under Editor tab there are intermediate codecs such as Apple Intermediate codec, ProRes 422, Avid DNxHD so that professionals can further edit their artwork natively in Final Cut Pro, Avid, Adobe AE, etc; the Online tab offers a time-saving way for users to upload their work to YouTube; also there’s a Device tab under which you can find hundreds of presets for almost all the devices that play video, from tablets and smartphones to HD media players and video game console. This really makes sense for average users who has no idea what codecs are or what format to use- just find your device in the list and choose the preset.

Price: $45

Requires: Mac OS X Leopard (10.5), Snow Leopard (10.6), Lion (10.7), and Mountain Lion (10.8)

2. Adobe Premiere Elements

Adobe Premiere Elements 10 is the newest update to Adobe’s popular consumer video editing application. Premiere Elements is inexpensive, well designed, and easy to learn. Premiere Elements has both a storyboard and a more traditional timeline view. You can polish, add effects and export to YouTube, HD Video or to DVD.

Premiere Elements 10 also has the unique capability to export to Blu-Ray, although the Mac has yet to gain Blu-Ray burning capability. You can also keyframe by keyframe edit effects and transitions.

Price: $79.99

Requires: Mac OS X 10.6 or later

3. Mac iMedia Converter

You may want to edit a file or post a video file and that file is not compatible with your system. When you run across this problem you need to convert the file. The easiest way is to use a file converter like iMedia Converter.

iMedia Converter is easy to use and accepts many file formats. It also includes batch convert functionality. As an added value, iMedia Converter includes direct conversion and ripping from a Blu-ray disc or DVD!

Price: $52

Requires: Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion

4. Final Cut Pro X

Sometimes you just need a real pro tool for the job. When those times call, answer with Final Cut Pro X! Apple upped in 2011 the ante by releasing Final Cut Pro X for only $299.99. FCPX has gained speed improvements, ease of use improvements, and many of iMovie’s looks and features. Although I still use FCP 8, FCPX is awesome for many projects and will come in handy if you get real serious.

Final Cut Pro X has many features to covet. The best includes magnetic timeline, built-in audio editor, a new 64bit architecture, faster rendering, built in effects, and a simpler to use color grading effect. Being that the price is hundreds of dollars lower the FCStudio, I could not recommend it enough.

Price: $299.99

Requires: Mac OS X 10.6.8 or later

5. Aurora3DAnimation

If you want to make your own 3D text or logo animation, normally you would have to use complex 3D graphics software and animate it yourself in After Effects. This is a tedious process that requires a huge skill set and thousands of dollars. With Aurora3DAnimation, you can easily create and animate 3D text and logos the exact way you want them without learning new skills. It could not be any easier!

Aurora3DAnimation offers beautifully designed templates, freehand control, light control, a built in graphic library, and excellent export capabilities. At only $49.99 you are not only saving hundreds of dollars, but many headaches!

Price: $49.99

Requires: Mac OS X 10.6 or later; 64-bit processor

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Continue reading »]]> Apple’s computing infrastructure has long been aimed at the creative professional, with emphasis on photo and video editing featuring prominently in marketing material past and present. The only problem with this is that industry-leading software like Adobe Premier, After Effects and Apple’s own Final Cut series are very expensive while there are very few free video editing applications for the OS X.

If you’ve just bought your first Mac then you might not have realized that it already comes with a basic video editor called iMovie. Yet the iMovie work with only a few video formats created by certain cameras only. If you’re using iMovie ’08 or later with a connected camera or camcorder, you may receive one of the following messages:

• “When you try to use a camera or device, iMovie may indicate that it can’t see the camera”.
• “When you try to import or export video to or from a camera or device, iMovie may unexpectedly stop importing, exporting, or responding”.

For people that are having trouble with importing AVCHD footage to iMovie, and video-editing beginners who prefer an easier way to manage camcorder AVCHD MTS/M2TS footage in batch, Pavtube Media Magician for Mac is a nice alternative worth a try. No matter you are an experienced videographer or a video-editing novice, you will be very impressed with its easy-to-use processing and wide support to camera and AVCHD camcorder file types.

Compatibility: Mac OS X Leopard (10.5), Snow Leopard (10.6), Lion (10.7), Mountain Lion (10.8)

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Media Magician for Mac includes a Camcorder Wizard tool for users to simply archive and transfer recorded camera videos to Mac computer in batch. It is easy to filter and choose desired HD clips by film date or file type for downloading to your computer.

Supported File Types and Cameras/Camcorders:

• MTS, M2TS, MP4, AVI, MOV from Digital cameras (Canon Vixia, Panasonic Lumix, etc);
• AVCHD MTS/M2TS, MOD, TOD from HDD based camcorders (Sony Handycam, Panasonic HD, JVC Everio, etc);
• All HD footage from Flash drive cameras;

All of your HD footage on camcorder HDD can be quickly transferred to Mac HDD, no matter what kind of cam you use. And there is a built-in media library for you to organize existing HD footage in batch. This new released Media Magician for Mac app takes into consideration easy managing & editing of ANY VIDEO on Mac – it also supports a wide variety of common video formats such as MOV, MP4, AVI, MKV, MPEG, TS, TiVo, VOB, etc.

Highlights of Pavtube Media Magician for Mac:

• Importing directly from camera/camcorder or backup camcorder videos to local HDD.
• Timeline editing, helping you edit camera clips in an easy and accurate way.
• Frame by Frame editing, helping you trim, cut and delete unwanted parts accurately.
• Adding 3D and other special effects to clips on timeline.
• Output Apple ProRes MOV for editing in FCP (X) without rendering.
• Featuring optimal presets for iMovie, FCE, Avid Studio, Adobe Premiere, Sony Vegas, Adobe After Effects, and Apple Aperture.
• Exporting files best suited for playing on Android devices, Windows devices, iPad, iPhone, Apple TV, HD Player, PSP/PS3, and HDV.
• Transcoding camera videos to a wide range of file formats, including AVI, MPEG-2, WMV, MOV, MKV, MPEG-4, and M2TS.
• Lossless output – keeping original format of source media, and rewrapping source video to MKV container without quality loss.
• Directlyupload camera videos onto YouTube by using your already-have YouTube account.

Continue reading »]]> Professional camcorders for video and broadcasting like Canon XF305 and Panasonic P2 HD cam shoot in MXF format. MXF is now submitted to SMPTE and is well on its way to helping media flow in the television/IT convergent world. End users will be able to better manage their media and to concentrate on their prime tasks of productivity and creativity. There are an increasing number of professional video editing tools that can work with MXF files natively including Avid, Adobe Premiere Pro 3.1 or above, and Sony Vegas. But many users have problems importing MXF footages to Mac non-linear video editing software such as Final Cut Pro, iMovie, FCE and Avid.

When loading .MXF files for post-production, many are finding the .mxf files gray out, not allowing users to select them. With Panasonic and Canon MXF cams, you need to load their drivers. But here’s the workflow for most tapeless imports into FCP, iMovie, FCE, AVID and other video editors.

By using the Pavtube Media Magician for Mac to encode MXF video to popular video format or intermediate codecs that work with your video editor, importing MXF footage should never be a problem any longer. Here’s how-to.

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Step 1. Import MXF files to the software.

If you have already stored MXF clips on your HDD, you can choose to “Import Media Files” to browse and load the .mxf files from computer.

Step 2. Drag and drop MXF clips onto Timeline.

After source MXF clips are imported into the program, you can directly drag and drop the clips that you want to do frame accurate splitting onto timeline, add special effect, and volume up/down.

Step 3. Click the Output button on the top and switch it to output interface.

Step 4. Choose output format(s). You can create videos for editing with Final Cut Pro, iMovie, FCE, Avid Studio, Adobe Premiere, Sony Vegas, Adobe After Effects, and Apple Aperture. Just click on “Editor” and choose an intermediate codec for use. For example, when exporting MXF to Final Cut Pro, you can follow “Editor” > “Final Cut Pro” to choose “Apple ProRes 422” codec, and set advanced video and audio parameters at the bottom part.

Step 5. Click on the + sign to add it as a conversion task. Select the task and click on the triangle sign on it to start converting MXF to the best format for FCP, iMovie, FCE, AVID, etc.

When conversion completes, you can import converted MXF footage to FCP X, iMovie, FCE, AVID from Mac instantly – without rendering.

Highlights of Pavtube Media Magician for Mac:

– Importing directly from camera/camcorder or backup camcorder videos to local HDD.

– Timeline editing, helping you edit camera clips in an easy and accurate way.

– Frame by Frame editing, helping you trim, cut and delete unwanted parts accurately.

– Adding 3D and other special effects to clips on timeline.

– Output Apple ProRes MOV for editing in FCP (X) without rendering.

– Featuring optimal presets for iMovie, FCE, Avid Studio, Adobe Premiere, Sony Vegas, Adobe After Effects, and Apple Aperture.

– Exporting files best suited for playing on Android devices, Windows devices, iPad, iPhone, Apple TV, HD Player, PSP/PS3, and HDV.

– Transcoding camera videos to a wide range of file formats, including AVI, MPEG-2, WMV, MOV, MKV, MPEG-4, and M2TS

– Lossless output – keeping original format of source media, and rewrapping source video to MKV container without quality loss.

– Directly upload camera videos onto YouTube by using your already-have YouTube account.

Continue reading »]]> Dec 21, 2012 – Multimedia developer Pavtube Studio has introduced a new piece of software to the public. The new app, named Media Magician for Mac, is a user-friendly package designed for AVCHD transferring, compressing and entry-level video editing. An average user may find it very handy to back up AVCHD (and other HD video) recordings to Mac HDD and export their own short film with just some simple editing while a professional would use this app to get HD MTS, M2TS, TOD, MOD, MOV, MXF footage ready for post-production in Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere, Avid Media Composer, iMovie, Final Cut Express etc.

Pavtube Media Magician for Mac comes with a camera wizard that allows you to quickly transfer video from most cameras- including digital cameras (Canon Vixia, Panasonic Lumix), HDD based camcorders (Sony Handycam, Panasonic HD, JVC Everio, etc) and flash drive cameras – to Mac HDD. It is easy to filter and choose desired clips by film date or file type for downloading to your computer. And there is a built-in media library for you to organize existing HD footage.

Editing in Media Magician is quite intuitive. Any video from the media library can be dragged and dropped to the timeline where you cut video by frame-accurate, trash undesired frames, join multiple AVCHD clips together, set video effect including 3D Red-Blue/Red-Cyan effect, mute (or articulate) audio, rotate video, take snapshot, etc.

What set Media Magician apart from other video editing software is its massive output formats. Lossless M2TS/MKV output is intended for seamless merge of multiple AVCHD clips; under Editor tab there are intermediate codecs for mainstream video editors so that professionals can further edit the footage natively in FCP, Avid, Adobe AE, etc; the Online tab offers a time-saving way for users to upload their work to YouTube; also there’s a Device tab under which you can find hundreds of presets for almost all the devices that play video, from tablets and smartphones to HD media players and video game console. This really makes sense for average users who has no idea what codecs are or what format to use- just find your device in the list and choose the preset.

System Requirements:

Operating System: Mac OS X Leopard (10.5), Snow Leopard (10.6), Lion (10.7), Mountain Lion (10.8).
Memory: 512 MB physical RAM (memory) or above.
Processor: 1G Hz or above Intel processor.
Display: 1024*768 or higher resolution display.

Pricing and Availability:

Pavtube Media Magician for Mac is only for $45(USD) at www.pavtube.com.

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