As the flagship of Canon's VIXIA Series of consumer camcorders, the VIXIA HF G30 gives you the highest quality recording, whether you’re capturing MP4 or AVCHD files. 1080/60p recording captures twice the amount of information as 60i, and with images captured at a rate of 60 frames per second, diagonal noise is virtually eliminated so even fast moving subjects show up crisply with motion and patterns clearly recorded.

However, while enjoying the stunning HD image quality, most users are facing problems when importing movie from Canon Vixia HF G30 to iMovie or Final Cut Express (FCE) for further editing and find all MTS files are greyed out. And you may encounter importing issues like this：

"I was trying to import the AVCHD footage from the Canon Vixia HF G30 to iMovie. However, iMovie gave me an error message window, says there are no recognizable files. Any idea what's going on and how I can solve it?"

In fact, there are mainly two reasons why you can not transfer video files from Vixia HF G30 to iMovie/FCE. Firstly, the recordings with the codec H.264/MPEG-4 are highly compressed for saving storage space and smooth playback, but the H.264 files are not suitable for editing, so editing H.264 MTS files in iMovie or FCE is always a headaching problem for editors. Secondly, up to now, neither iMovie nor Final Cut Express could successfully recognize footages at 60p.

Fortunately, there is an easy way to get iMovie/FCE work with Canon Vixia HF G30 MTS files beautifully. Since Apple InterMediate Codec(AIC) is the the most compatible codec introduced by Apple which ensures maximum editing quality and efficiency when working with iMovie and FCE, the common practise for Canon Vixia HF G30 workflow with iMovie is, get a Mac MTS to AIC Converter and transcode Canon Vixia .MTS to AIC MOV, which will save you both time and trouble, and all you need is to drag the result videos for prompt editing. For this purpose, this article will show you how to transcode Canon Vixia HF G30 MTS to AIC MOV in detail.

How to Convert Canon Vixia HF G30 footage for Editing in iMovie/FCE

First you need to download Brorsoft MTS/M2TS Converter for Mac, a powerful hihgly-quality Canon Vixia MTS Converter Mac, player and editor. It's free, clean and safte to install and use. With it, you can effortlessly transcode Canon HF G30 MTS to Apple Intermediate Codec-ensuring ensuring maximum editing quality and efficiency when working with iMovie and Final Cut Express.

Step 1: Launch the mac Canon Vixia Video Converter for Mac, and then click the "Add" button to load the .mts videos. You can also use the drag-and-drop method to load the 1080p .mts files to the application UI.

Step 2: Click "format" to open the output format drop-up list to select "iMovie and Final Cut Express--> Apple Intermediate Codec(AIC)(*.mov)" as the output format for Mac iMovie/FCE.

Tip: Before conversion, you can click the "Settings" icon to customize the video/audio settings for iMovie: Please set 1920*1080 as video size, 30fps for users in NTSC area and 25fps in PAL area as video bitrate to get the best video quality. If you want to get a smaller ones, please decrease the video size from 1920*1080 to 1440*1080 or 1280*720.

Step 3: Click the Arrow icon under the preview window, and the program will start transcode Canon Vixia HF G30 MTS to AIC MOV for iMovie 08/09/11 and Final Cut Express on Mac.

Additional Tips:
If you want to edit Canon Vixia MTS clips in Final Cut Pro X or FCP 7/6, you just need to choose the "Final Cut Pro > Apple ProRes 422 (*.mov)" as output format in the scond step; For Adobe Premiere Pro, choose Adobe Premiere/Sony Vegas> MPEG-2(*.mpg) as output. For Avid MC, choose "Avid Media Composer -> Avid DNXHD (*.mov)" as output.

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