Canon FS series camcorders are popular among the consumers. Compared with high definition camcorders, it is much less expensive. When it comes to SD camcorder list, it ranks top. Canon FS Series camcorder like Canon FS100, Canon FS200, Canon FS300 shoot 720P/1080P high-definition video with MOD format and MPEG-2 compression. While enjoying the stunning HD image quality, Canon FS users may be annoyed while having trouble importing Canon FS100/FS200/FS300 MOD files into iMovie, Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Express, Avid Media Composer or Premiere Pro. There're some frequently asked questions quoted as below.
"Why does my Canon FS200 Cam-corder can't sync to or be recognized on my Mac?"
"I have a Mac OS X version 10.4.11 which comes with Imovie 6.0.3 and if updating my imovie to imovie '09 is the answer then i want to be completely sure because if i do that i have to buy the entire "ilife" pack to get imovie '09 and it is $80 and i don't want to do that to find that my computer still won't recognize my Canon FS100 camera."
"Does FS300 Compatible with FCP? How do I edit my Canon FS300 footage with my iMac FCP? It's not recognizing it... Not in iMovie or in iPhoto. Or anywhere."
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, Avid MC 7, Premiere Pro CS6 or Final Cut Express 4, the most effective method is to use convert Canon MOV to Mac compatible video format. For this purpose, the article below will outline how to transcode and import Canon FS100/FS200/FS300 MOV files into various non-linera editing systems (NLEs) for editing smoothly.
First you need to download Brorsoft Video Converter for Mac, a powerful yet easy-to-use high-quality video converter, player and editor. The program deals with HD/Full HD shootings in file extensions of *.mts, *.m2ts, *.mov, *.mxf, *.mod, *.tod, *.avi, *.mp4 taken with Sony, Panasonic, JVC and various other camcorders. And it exports different professional professional encoders, ProRes, DNxHD, MPEG-2, Apple InterMediate Codec (AIC) (*.mov) etc - nsuring maximum editing quality and efficiency when working with iMovie, Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere or Avid Media Composer. If you're editing Canon Legria FS100/FS200/FS300 MOD footage on Mac, chances are you already installed this great free utility. If not, download it it from below.
(Note: Click here for OS X 10.5) So, what does the workflow look like?
1) Download, install and launch the program as Canon MOD Converter for Mac.
2) Click "Add" button and browse to the Canon Legria FS footages either from scratch disk or cam HDD for loading to the converter.
3) Click "Format" menu to choose output format for your NLE systems.
If you need to import FS MOD clips into FCP (X), you should choose “Apple ProRes 422 (*.mov)” as target format from "Final Cut Pro" column.
If you intend to edit Canon FS files with iMovie or Final Cut express, you should choose "Apple InterMediate Codec (AIC) (*.mov)” as output format from "iMovie and Final Cut Express" catalogue.
For Avid Media Composer, choose "Avid Media Composer > Avid DNxHD(*.mov)" as output; For Adobe Premiere Pro, choose Adobe Premiere/Sony Vegas> MPEG-2(*.mpg) as output.
4) Press the big button "Convert" to start transcoding the loaded Canon Legria FS camcorder MOD files to a workable format for using with your Mac NLE apps. When the conversion is done, click "Open" button to find the generated files with ease.
You've done. Once the process completes, you can easily open and edit Canon FS100/FS200/FS300 MOD footage on Mac within iMovie, FCP, FCE, Avid and Premiere.
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