Monday, April 1, 2013

How to import Canon Powershot MOV video to FCPX for editing


Canon Powershot S100

Canon Powershot products have many series, like A series, D series, E series, G series, S series, etc. The PowerShot line has been successful for Canon, and is one of the best-selling digital camera lines worldwide. How much do you know about Canon Powershot S100? Let's take a look at it.
The Canon S100--like its S-series predecessors--is an almost perfect compact camera with some drawbacks stemming from its pocket-friendly size. Aimed at the serious photographer looking for a capable compact, the new Canon S100 features a high-sensitivity 12.1 megapixel 1/1.7-type CMOS sensor, 5x zoom lens with a focal range of 24-140mm and fast maximum aperture of f/2.0, DIGIC 5 processor, and a 3.0 inch LCD display with a resolution of 461K dots.
The S100 offer this year's must-have feature: full HD movie recording at 1920x1080 resolution, with a 24P output framerate. Unlike the S95, optical zoom is available while recording movies. This enhanced video capability is supported by a revised control layout, that now includes a direct movie recording button underneath your thumb on the back of the camera.
The good: A great little camera with advanced features, the Canon PowerShot S100 builds on the strengths of its excellent predecessor.
The bad: As a trade-off for extending the zoom range to 5x the lens' aperture narrows very quickly as you zoom out. And there's no improvement over the S95's so-so performance, despite the price increase.
The bottom line: The Canon PowerShot S100 is a generally great little camera for advanced shooters who don't mind slowing down a bit from a dSLR.
The Canon Powershot S100 record movie file format: MOV (Image: H.264, Audio: PCM). In generally, MOV file is friendly with Mac applications, but when you try to import the MOV video into Final Cut Pro for editing you will find that the FCP can not recognized the mov file, It caused by the highly-compressed MOV file format, which can be well playable but hard to edit in some video editor programs. So if you want to edit Canon Powershot recorded MOD video you should convert canon mov to prores.
Doremisoft Video Converter for mac is a software that can convert MOV, MTS, MOD, M2TS, MKV, MP4, PVR, etc. to other foramt like MOV, MP4, AVI, WMV, M4V, DV, etc. So with this software you can convert the video from canon powershot to the format that can be imported into FCP. For example, if you get an canon powershot g1, you can transcode canon powershot g1 x mov to fcp x for editing.
With this software you also can convert canon 550d mov to sony vegas for editing. Even if your camcorder is record mxf file, you will be able to convert mxf to fcemxf to avid mac, or mxf to quicktime.

No comments:

Post a Comment