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Import videos from Canon FS300 to Mac FCP, iMovie, QuickTime

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Bought the FS300 because of great zoom and battery life as opposed to HD cameras. I am now running into the issue. The Canon FS300 can’t sync to or be recognized on my Mac. When I put my SD card in and it says that it is a .MOD file, but the QuickTime or FCP, iMovie can’t play, edit the MOV video as I wish. Seraching widely, I got some clues. Now share a solution to importing video from Canon F300 to Mac FCP, iMovie, QucikTime for easier editing and playback.

In fact, MOD isn’t a Mac friendly format. If you wanna open this MOV footage in QuickTime or edit in iMovie ’11, Final Cut Pro 7/X, Adobe Premiere Pro or Final Cut Express, the most effective method is to convert Canon FS300 MOD to Mac compatible video format i.e. MOV. For this purpose, this article mainly shows you how to transcode Sony Canon FS300 videos for editing, playing on Mac OS X in detail. Below is how.

1. Download and install Brorsoft Video Converter for Mac

The program deals with HD/Full HD shootings in file extensions of *.mod, *.mts, *.m2ts, *.mov, *.mxf, *.tod, *.avi, *.mp4 taken with Canon, Sony, Panasonic, JVC and various other camcorders. And it exports different professional professional encoders including ProRes, DNxHD, MPEG-2, Apple InterMediate Codec (AIC) (*.mov) etc – nsuring maximum editing quality and efficiency when working withFinal Cut Pro, Avid Media Composer, Adobe Premiere Pro, iMovie. If you’re editing Canon FS300 MOD footage on Mac, chances are you already installed this great free utility. If not, download it it from below.

2.  Launch the best MOD Converter Mac and click add button to import .mod video(s) to the program.

3. Click “format” bar to choose the output format. There are many output format for you to choose: you can freely choose Final Cut Pro > Apple ProRes 422 (*.mov), or iMovie and Final Cut Express > Apple InterMediate Codec (AIC) (*.mov). If you only want to play Canon F300 MOD on Mac with QuicTime, just choose MOV format from Common Video.

4. Hit the Convert button to start the conversion; it will convert Canon FS300 MOD to Mac iMovie/FCP/QuickTime friendly format on Mac OS X.

After the conversion, you can get the transcode Caon FS300 videos for editing, playing on Mac with ease.

Working Olympus XZ-2 MOV in Pinnacle Studio

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The Olympus Stylus XZ-2 iHS features a great f1.8-2.5 lens, excellent photo quality and shooting options, and a well-designed body that’s solidly constructed. The XZ-2’s video quality and features are good. The 1080p video quality records at a respectably high 18Mbps bit. However, when I turn to Pinnacle Studio to have edit, the software can’t the output H.264 MOV footage. It seems to be hard for editing Olympus XZ-2 MOV in Pinnacle Studio. I have read around and I’m not the only one having difficulty importing video from Olympus XZ-2 to Pinnacle Studio.

Fortunately, I’ve found out a straightforward fix is to convert Olympus XZ-2video to Pinnacle much more compatible format like MPEG-2. I’ve had the big success in this try. If you are facing the similar issues with your Olympus XZ-2, check out the solution below.

Download and install the app Brorsoft Video Converter

It is an easy-to-use MOV converter for you, which can help you change MOV into a different format like MPEG-2, AVI with least quality loss. You should then be able to import the new file into Pinnacle Studio with smooth editing without any trouble. It enables you to play, edit Olympus XZ-2 MOV with Pinnacle Studio 9/11/12/14/16 easily.

Below is a step-by-step guide on how to convert Canon Olympus XZ-2 MOV to MPEG-2 for Pinnacle Studio editing on Windows(Windows 8)

Step 1: Add videos to the program

Launch this MOV to Pinnacle Studio Converter. Import Olympus XZ-2 footage to the converter. You can join several video clips together by checking the “Merge into one file” box.

Step 2: Choose Pinnacle Studio preferred format

Click “Format” bar and choose “Adobe Premiere/Sony Vegas > MPEG-2 (*.mpg)” as output format on the drop-down menu. Of course, you can also choose AVI, MP4, WMV from “Common Video” as the output format.

Tip: If need, you can click “settings” to customize the output parameters, adjust the resolution, bitrate for easy editing with Pinnacle.

Step 3:  Start Olympus XZ-2 to Pinnacle conversion

Click “Convert” button to start transcoding Olympus XZ-2 MOV video to MPG for importing to Pinnacle Studio.

You’re done. Now your Olympus MOV files will be converted into MPG files ready to be imported to Pinnacle Studio 9/11/12/14/16 beautifully.

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Best H.265 Video Converter: Play/Edit Samsung NX1 H.265 Easily

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The NX1 is Samsung’s answer to the GH4 and A7S. And its HEVC h.265 may represent a whole new reference scale for video. H.265 should use much less space and offer compression quality than H.264(Learn difference between H.265 and H.264). The only problem is that H.265 is still not supported well. Most NLEs like Adobe Premiere Pro, Windows Movie Maker, Sony Vegas Pro(on Windows) can’t ingest H.265 as a native format; most video players apps including Windows Media Player, VLC can’t read and play H.265 codec perfectly. To play/edit Samsung NX1 H.265 videos easily, a necessary tool seems to be a H.265 Converter for Samsung NX1.

Read some other users’ feedback online, Brorsoft Video Converter is the highly recommended as the best H.265 Video Converter for Samsung NX1 footage or other H.265 video source.

It is one of the firsts to provide an H.265 encoder/decoder for Windows and it ranks top on the H.265 converter application list. It is an all-in-one H.265 decoder, encoder, converter and player. With it, you can convert H.265 to H.264 MP4, MOV, WMV, AVI, MPG, FLV, M4V with several mouse clicks. Besides, optimal presets for NLEs like Adobe Premiere Pro, Avid Media Composer, Sony Vegas Pro are provided to help you have smooth H.265 video editing workflow.

Download the H.265 converter:

Tutorial: How to Convert Samsung NX1 H.265 Video to Any Format

STEP 1. Add H.265 videos

Run the best H.265/HEVC decoder program, go to the menu bar, select Add button to select the H.265 files you want to import. You can also directly drag the video files to the program for conversion. It supports batch conversion so you can import multiple files at a time.

STEP 2. Choose an output format you want

Click on “Format” bar, select any format you need from the drop-down profile list. You can choose regular video formats like AVI, MP4, WMV, FLV, MKV, MOV, etc from Common Video. Or you can choose a video preset for portable devices like iiPad or video editing programs like Sony Vegas/Adobe Premiere Pro.

Tip:

1. Before conversion, you can go to the “Settings” to set the parameters for your movie. To compress the file size, adjust the parameters to be smaller.

2. Click Edit button and you can trim, crop or adjust the video with the built-in video editor to get the very part and effect of yoru original H.265 video as you want.

STEP 3: Start H.265 video conversion

When everything is done, click Convert icon to start transcoding Samsung NX1 H.265 files. When the conversion done, click Open button to get the ripped videos for much more convenient playback, editing. Enjoy.

4K to Movie Maker- Import GoPro Hero4 4K to Windows Movie Maker

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I recorded a video using GoPro Hero4. But every time I try to open the GoPro Hero4 4K with Window Movie Maker (ie to edit etc) it crashes – and from what I have read mp4’s aren’t compatible with Movie Maker. So I have scoured the internet, tried everything about the way to solve the GoPro Hero4 4K to Movie Maker incompatibility issues, and have a decent solution now.

In my view, GoPro Hero4 Black is the best choice for videographers who are found in outdoor activities. It can can capture stunning 4K footage in extreme settings(30fps). Of course 2.7K50, 1440p80, 1080p120, 960p120 and 720p120 fps for crisp, smooth footage are supported as well. Whereas, if you want to work with the 4K files from GoPro Hero4 in Windows Movie Maker, it would be a bit difficult. This article will guide through how to rewrap and transcode GoPro Hero4 4K .mp4 to .wmv(HD) for Windows Movie Maker step by step.

If you need to import GoPro Hero4 4K video to Windows Movie Maker, it’s suggested to convert Gopro 4K to Windows Movie Maker supported format like WMV/AVI (1080p would be an optimal setting), which will bring you the best results when working with WMM. Here we recommend Brorsoft Video Converter, which is a great GoPro 4K to Windows Movie Maker Converter.

Overall, the program is the best Video Converter for GoPro Hero4 footage, which will create an Windows Movie Maker friendly file format- .wmv keeping the original quality in Windows XP/Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8. Besides Movie Maker, this software can also export professional encoders like DNxHD for Avid, MPEG-2 for Premiere Pro/Sony Vegas Pro and more.

How to Convert GoPro Hero4 4K to Windows Movie Maker

1. Import GoPro videos

Run the GoPro MP4 video to WMV Coverer; click the Add button to load 4K .mp4 files to the program from your computer. You can also directly drag the video files into the program directly.

2. Choose Movie Maker friendly format

Click the Format box and select HD Video –>WMV HD(*.wmv) on the dropdown menu as output format. Besides, you can also choose Divx HD(*.avi) as output if you have not installed the .wmv codec.

Tip: This GoPro 4K Video Converter allows you to tweak the profile settings. If you like, adjust video and audio parameters, including the Bitrate of Video and Audio, the Codec of Video and Audio, Video Size, Sample Rate, Frame Rate, Audio Channels, etc., by clicking the Settings button on the main interface for getting the best quality.

3. Start conversion

Simply click the Convert button to start converting GoPro 4K video to Windows Movie Maker friendly video formats.

Within several minutes, the conversion would be finished and you can find the converted file on your computer by clicking the “Open” button. And then you can import the converted GoPro Hero4 4K to Windows Movie Make for editing via its “Import video” option.

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How to rip Blu-ray to H.264 MP4 on Mac Yosemite

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I’m a Harry Potter fan and have a Harry Potter: Complete 8-Film Collection[Blu-ray]. What I want is to transfer them to Apple TV and iPad for watching, there is no way but only to rip these Blu-rays to common videos like MOV, MP4 first. Searching online, I got some clues- here is the way to rip Blu-ray to H.264 MP4 on Mac OS X(Yosemite). I think it would be a complete guide for other Blu-ray movie fans for easier playback and sharing.

For Harry Potter, Frozen, Saving Mr Banks, Captain America, etc commercial Blu-ray movies, they come with copy-protection. Thus, if you want to play those Blu-ray files on PC or other portable media devices smoothly, you need to convert Blu-ray to MP4 video format so that they can be compatible with most players and devices.

To rip Blu-ray file to MP4 for playing smoothly, Brorsoft Blu-ray Ripper for Mac is highly recommended to you to rip your favorite Blu-ray movies to .mp4 on Mac with best quality and fast speed. Besides MP4, it also supports MOV, AVI, WMV, FLV, MKV and 150+ ready presets for portable multimedia devices. What’s more, this professional Blu-ray ripping tool not only can support Blu-ray disc, Blu-ray ISO files, Blu-ray folders, but also can deal with DVDs and DVD folders. For Windows users, Blu-ray Ripper is right for you. Below is a tutorial for you to rip Blu-ray to H.264 MP4 on Mac Yosemite.

How to Convert Blu-ray to H.264 MP4 video

Step 1. Load source Blu-ray movie

Launch this Mac Blu-ray Ripper and click disc button to import Blu-ray movie into the program. DVD discs and folders, ISO image files are also supported.

Step 2. Select MP4 as output format

Click on the dropdown menu of “Format” and then move your pointer to “Common Video”, under the sublist, “H.264 Video(*.mp4) is the recommend format.

Tip: If you want to directly convert Blu-ray to play on iPhone, iPad or some other media devices, just specify the corresponding optimized presets as the output format, since these output parameters has been adjusted to fit seamlessly your devices.

Step 3. Start Blu-ray to MP4 conversion

Tap “Convert” button on the main interface to start ripping Blu-ray movies to MP4 on Mac Yosemite.

After the conversion, click “Open” to locate the result videos and then you can play the Blu-ray files on your computer or different media devices smoothly.

Additional Tips:

1. Before ripping, you can click the “Settings” button on the main interface to adjust the profile parameters such as video size, video&audio bitrate, frame rate, etc to meet your own demands.

2. This Blu-ray to MP4 converter allows users do lots of editing works on the Blu-ray movie. Users can trim video segment, crop video frame, watermark video, adjust video effect, etc.

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