How to Play and Edit Canon VIXIA Videos on Mac OS X

As Cannon’s highly-regarded reputation and people’s high demand on video quality, more and more people like Cannon video. At the same time, various problems to connect Canon VIXIA camcorder with Mac and to import VIXIA video to iMovie are emerging. Canon VIXIA Video Converter for Mac can resolve these problems easily, by converting Canon VIXIA videos to Mac compatible video formats with only several clicks. It support most of the Canon VIXIA models.

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Canon VIXIA series camcorder is a large family of popular Canon HD camcorders. It at least contains following models:

Most popular HD models of Canon VIXIA series, including the latest VIXIA HF S11, VIXIA HF S10, VIXIA HF S100, VIXIA HF20, VIXIA HF200, VIXIA HG21, VIXIA HG20, etc. are supported by the Canon VIXIA video converter for Mac.

Aiming at playing and editing Sony videos on Mac OS X, first you should connect your Canon VIXIA camcorder to your Mac and import Canon videos to your Mac, there is a guide How to import Canon VIVIA videos to Mac.

Canon Vixia HG21, Canon Vixia HF S100, Canon HF100, Canon HD camcorder HG10 store their videos in *.mts files. And output videos of Vixia series are mainly MPEG4-AVC / H.264 video and they store videos as mts and other formats.

These Canon videos can’t be played on Mac because these camcorder video codec is different from video codec of Mac series software. An ideal solution is to convert them to .mp4 or .mov on Mac OS X, which is compatible with Mac .If you would like to manage them easily on your Mac OS X (Snow Leopard, Lion included), Canon VIXIA Video Converter for Mac will help you a lot, which will resolve the key problem of format capability of Mac.

As Canon VIXIA series of camcorders compress the shoot videos in MPEG4-AVC / H.264 video codecs, which are all support by Canon VIXIA Video Converter for Mac, you can just import it to this converter for Mac and select the output format .The conversion will be finished in a short time and with good quality. Then you can do further video editing works on iMovie, Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere Pro and other applications for Mac to share, enjoy or backup videos!

This Canon video converter for Mac is also a good video editor for Mac, which provides powerful functions to edit your video files. You can trim video length, crop video area, set video brightness, contrast, and saturation, and customize video/audio output settings. Here is a guide in details about how to edit your Canon VIXIA videos on Mac.