Canon has a well-known and highly-regarded reputation for optical excellence, advanced image processing, superb performance and technological innovation, built on our legendary photographic and broadcast television lenses. Based on that experience, we bring the latest in high definition camcorders. The Canon VIXIA HF S100 Flash Memory camcorder is one such example.

The VIXIA HF S100 allows you to record at up to 24Mbps, the highest bit rate in AVCHD format, for the highest quality image. The VIXIA HF S100's Canon Exclusive features - such as the Genuine Canon 10x HD video lens, sophisticated Genuine Canon Face Detection capability, SuperRange Optical Image Stabilization and a host of new control and creative options - makes our Flash Memory camcorder unmistakably Canon.

Opinions about Canon Vixia HF S100
The good: Excellent video quality and performance; nicely designed interface; fast battery charging.
The bad:No eye-level viewfinder; expensive; lens cover rattles when closed.

If you are a Canon VIXIA HF S100 user, you may meet many problems while imputing the footages from Canon VIXIA HF S100 to FCP X. Some persons may even can not imput the cilps to the FCP X while others are able to import the AVCHD files to FCP X luckily. However, they encountered other problems. After imputing the cilps from Canon VIXIA HF S100 to FCP X, the native videos are not played as the original. Many problems appeared including interlacing, no audio and so on as the user encountered below.

"After countless of testing and error and several phone calls to support, I still can not figure out why my AVCHD footage (MTS files from a Canon vixia HF S100) had no audio when importing into FCPX. Is there anyone here who may fix the problem for me?"

Why did the problems occur? There may be many reasons which is relevant to the problems. The first and foremost reason is because of the different video format. As we all know, Apple ProRes is the most compatible format for FCP X to edit. However, the Canon VIXIA HF S100's video format is AVCHD. Thus the most important step to solve the problem is to find a best Canon VIXIA HF S100 AVCHD Converter to transcode native MTS files to Apple ProRes for FCP X.

Here is the instruction for you to convert Canon Vixia HF S100 recordings to FCP X without quality loss after you have prepared the superb AVCHD Converter.

Step 1: Install the best MTS Converter for mac you have found on your mac. Run it and transfer the 1080i footages from Canon Vixia HF S100 to the converter.
Tip:
1. If necessary, you can merge several AVCHD clips by ticking “Merge into one” box.
2. If the imputed file is 1GB, then the memory space should be up to 40GB.

Step 2: Click "format" bar to choose the compatible output format for FCP X.
Click "Final Cut Pro--Apple ProRes 422(*.mov)" as the best format for FCP X

Step 3: You can click "settings" to customize the output parameters, adjust the resolution, bitrate as you want. Set video size as 1920*1080, video frame rate as 30fps.

Step 4: Click convert button to start converting Canon Vixia HF S100 1080i MTS to FCP X on Mac OS X.

After Canon Vixia HF S100 AVCHD 60i conversion finished , you can click “open” to find the output file to FCP X for editing easily.

Tips:
1. Auto shutdown: Click Option and tick the box “Shut down the computer after conversion” before conversion starts.
2. Deinterlace 1080i files: Click Edit and select "deinterlacing" in the Effect.
3. Canon Vixia HF S100 MTS Converter not only can help you to transcode MTS file for editors such as FCP X, iMovie, Adobe Premiere and so on, but also can convert these AVCHD files to common video formats for protable device or TV such as .mp4, .avi, .mov and so on.

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