I need to find out how to put my canon fs100 files (.mod format) into iMovie HD?

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As Canon VIXIA HF series camcorders becoming more and more popular among people, you may have problem of uploading Canon VIXIA HF video to iMovie, or Mac. Because some of Canon VIXIA camcorders cannot be compatible with iMovie, iMovie' 08, iMovie' 09, such as Canon VIXIA HF200, VIXIA HV30, VIXIA HFS100, etc. Or even though Canon VIXIA camcorders can be compatible with iMovie or Mac, but sometimes video off Canon VIXIA series is not recognized by iMovie due to different aspect ratio or video codec.

If you cannot import Canon VIXIA video like Canon VIXIA HV30, VIXIA HF200, VIXIA HF S100, etc to iMovie for editing, you need a powerful Canon VIXIA to iMovie Converter to convert Canon VIXIA AVCHD video to MOV, MP4, DV for iMovie firstly, then you can import them to iMovie to share or edit.

Doremisoft Canon VIXIA to iMovie Converter is designed for Mac users to convert camcorder video like AVCHD MTS/M2TS to MOV, MP4, DV for iMovie and Mac. It also support converting video such as MOD, TOD, MKV, etc to Mac, iPad, iPod, iPhone, PSP, Blackberry, iDVD , FCP, FCE, etc.

But how to transfer Canon VIXIA video to iMovie? Here, quick guide for you to follow to convert Canon AVCHD MTS, M2TS files to iMovie step by step:

Step1: Install and Launch Doremisoft AVCHD Converter for Mac

Step2: Import Canon VIXIA Video
Click "Add File" to input your Canon VIXIA AVCHD MTS files to Mac AVCHD Video Converter. You can upload several videos one time.

Step3: Set Output Video Format for iMovie
Click "Profile" to open the Profile drop-up list to select MOV, MP4 or DV as output video format for iMovie.

Step4: Convert Canon VIXIA Video to iMovie
Click "Start" button to convert Canon VIXIA AVCHD files to iMovie. After conversion finished, you can edit your converted Canon VIXIA videos with iMovie as you like.

Related: How to Get AVCHD MTS/M2TS, MOD Files off HD Camcorder to Mac, iMovie, FCP?
How to Convert and Import Sony HDR Series Video to Mac, iMovie?

linkAS a new type of camera--a Flash memory-enabled camera, Canon FS200, FS100, FS300 and other Canon FS series MOD camcorders can quickly record, edit and delete movies from the camera itself.

Take Digital Video Camcorder Canon FS200 as a example, owns SDHC Memory Card, features Ultra-Sleek, Compact and Lightweight Design , Genuine 41x Advanced Zoom, DIGIC DV II Image Processor, Superb Shooting Control--Video Snapshot, Quick Start, Quick Charge, Dual Shot and More, Stunning Digital Photography, 2.7" Widescreen LCD. What's more, You'll be satisfied with its quick response time. In addition, when you review your footage, it will start playing more quickly as well.

Although Canon FS users can enjoy HD videos in a high quality, they are sometime annoyed with its output MOD files that cannot be compatible with Mac Quicktime, iMovie, iPad, iPod, and some popular editing softwares such as Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Express. You know Canon FS Series camcorder like Canon FS100, Canon FS200, Canon FS300 capture video with MOD format and MPEG-2 compression, but common video format on Macs are MOV, ,MP4, DV, H.264, etc. So if you want to share Canon MOD files on Macs with your family and friends, you need to convert Canon FS200 or other Canon FS MOD videos to MOV, MP4, H.264 for Mac. Confused? Don't worry, a remarkable Doremisoft MOD converter for Mac can easily offer you to convert Canon FS MOD files on Mac OS. It can transfer Canon, JVC Panasonic Camorder MOD videos to MOV/MP4/3GP/3G2/M4V/DV/MKV etc. andconvert camcorder MOD files to Mac iMovie,Quicktime, iPad/iPhone/iPod, FCP, FCE, or to other popular players such as PSP, AppleTV, Zune, Blackberry, Cellphones and so forth.

How to convert Canon FS200/FS100/FS300 and other Canon FS series to Mac? The following quick guide for you to transfer MOD files to Mac OS step by step.

Step1: Install and Launch Mac MOD Converter

Step2: Import Canon FS MOD Files to Mac OS
Click "Add Files" to upload MOD Files off Canon FS300/FS200/FS100 camcorder to MOD Converter for Mac, you can add more than one MOD video one time.

Step3: Select Output Video formats for Mac
Press "Profile" button to find a suitable output video format like MOV, MP4, DV, H.264 for Mac iMovie, Quicktime, iPad, iPod, iPhones or FCP, FCE, etc.

Step4: Convert Canon MOD Videos to Mac/Snow Leopard.
Click "Start" to transfer Canon FS MOD files to Mac. After waiting for a few minutes, you can share converted MOD video on Mac Quicktime, iMovie, iPad, etc.

Related: How to Edit MOD files on Mac?

How to Put/Convert JVC, Panasonic, Canon Camcorder Video to Mac, MOD to MP4, MOV, DV on Mac?

Recording daily life and interesting things with a HD camcorder becomes a trend for our people. They like to share these digital camcorder videos on Mac or PC with family and friends. However, selecting a good digital camcorder for Mac is not easy for green hand. Maybe more tips need paying attention, for example, the types of your camcorder and Mac, the version of iMovie on Mac, Mac and PC compability with digital camcorder and so on.

iMovie has been a Mac OS X only application bundled in the iLife suite of Macintosh applications since iMovie3. From 2007 to 2010, Apple developed iMovie to iMovie' 08, iMovie' 09, and iMovie for iPhone and iPod Touch. Luckily, iMovie' 08, iMovie' 09 are designed to work with a wide range of digital video devices and formats, including tape-based(use a FireWire cable, also known as IEEE 1394 or i.Link) and the latest tapeless camcorders that record to flash memory, a hard disk drive(HDD), or DVD media.

A list of Digital Camcorders Compatible with iMovie' 08, iMovie' 09 on Mac OS X
NTSC Camcorders(a video format used in North America, Central America, Japan, and parts of South America)
Canon: DC20, DC50, DC220, DC230, FS10, FS11, FS100, HF10, HF11, HF100, HG10, HG20, HG21, HR10.
JVC: GZ-HD10, GZ-HD30, GZ-HD40, GZ-MG330, GZ-MG67, GZ-MG255, GZ-MG555U, GZ-MG505U.
Panasonic: HDC-DX1, HDC-SD5, HDC-SD9, HDC-SD20, HDC-SD200, HDC-HS9, HDC-HS20, HDC-HS100, HDC-HS200, HDC-HS300, HDC-SX5, SDR-H50, SDR-H60, SDR-H200, SDR-S10
Sony: HDR-CX11, HDR-CX12, HDR-SR1, HDR-SR7, HDR-SR11, HDR-TG1, DCR-SR82, DCR-SR200, DCR-DVD308, DCR-DVD508, DCR-DVD403.
PAL Camcorders(a video format used in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, most of Asia, and parts of South America)
Canon: DC50E, DC220E, DC330E, FS10E, FS100E, HF11E, HF100E, HG10E, HG20E, HG21E.
JVC: GZ-HD10KR, GZ-HD30, GZ-HD40, GZ-MG255, GZ-MG67, GZ-MG155, GZ-MG330.
Panasonic: HDC-DX1, HDC-SD9, HDC-SD200, HDC-TM20, HDC-TM300, HDC-HS20, HDC-HS200, HDC-HS300, SDR-H79, SDR-H60, SDR-S15, SDR-S26.
Sony: DCR-DVD908E, HDR-CX11E, HDR-CX12, HDR-SR1E, DCR-SR5E, HDR-SR12E, HDR-TG1E, HDR-CX7E, HDR-UX20E, DCR-SR82E, DCR-SR100E, DCR-SR300E.

Although iMovie' 08, iMovie' 09 on Mac OS work with most of HD digital camcorders using MPEG-2 (standard definition), MPEG-4, AVCHD, and H.264 formats, not all tapeless camcorders are compatible with iMovie' 08, iMovie '09 because of the wide range of media types and the different ways manufacturers store video on these media types.

How to fix it? To meet people editing AVCHD, MOD files with iMovie, enjoying HD camcorder video on Mac, a powerful HD Video Converter for Mac is specially designed for people who need to convert AVCHD MTS/M2TS, MOD, TS, TOD, MKV files to iMovie MP4, MOV, DV for better editing. Besides, that Mac HD Converter is also the very choice to convert HD video like TP, TRP, M5S, TOD, MPEG2 HD, MPEG4 HD, MOV HD, WMV HD, AVI HD to Mac application: iTunes, iDVD, FCP, FCE, etc.

Related: Click here to see more info of AVCHD Converter for Mac for people to convert AVCHD files to Mac iMovie, iPod, iPad, iPhones, PSP, BlackBerry, Zune and other handy device.

How to Convert AVCHD MTS/M2TS to Mac formats?

Many JVC, Canon and Panasonic camcorder users are at a loss how to edit their MOD files but it is very hard to find an MOD editing software. For Mac users, iMovie is a great video editing tool, but it does not support MOD files. Therefore, to successfully import MOD to iMovie, you will have to convert MOD files to iMovie supported formats.
Doremisoft Mac MOD Converter is the perfect application to convert MOD files to iMovie formats so you can edit MOD in iMovie. It has preset iMovie profiles so you won’t even have to research on what formats are supported by iMovie. With Doremisoft Mac MOD Converter, you can not only convert MOD to iMovie but also convert MOD to iPod, iPhone, PSP and a lot more mobile player gadgets.

There are only three easy steps to import MOD to iMovie:

Step 1: Add MOD files
Click the "Add File" button to add the MOD files you want to import to iMovie from your Mac hard disc. Then double click a file or select a file and click on "Open" to add it.

Step 2: Select the output format
On the Profile field, you will see a small arrow at the very right, click on it to open the Profile drop-up list, move your mouse cursor to "iMovie Video" and click on the "iMovie MOV" profile. Then check the "Apply to all" option so you can convert all added MOD files into selected format.
If you want to convert MOD to iPod, iPhone etc., you can also find the preset profiles here.

Step 3: Start to convert MOD to iMovie
Now, you can click on the big round Start button to start the conversion. You can see the time it will take to finish the conversion on the conversion window. And then you can how you can relax during the conversion time, a cup of tea, or a nice meal, and then come back for the converted files
After the conversion, you can just open your iMovie, import the converter files, and start editing!

Tip: You can also use Doremisoft Mac MOD Converter to do easy editing such as cropping, trimming, and video effects to your MOD files, click here to see how.

Click here for more information of Doremisoft Mac MOD Converter.

Canon, JVC, Panasonic, most of these types of camcorders recorded videos are MOD files(some are TOD used by JVC), such as Canon FS100, FS10, FS21, JVC GZ-MC100 (SD), GZ-MG630, GZ-MG680, Panasonic SDR-SW21, SDR-SW20, SDR-S26. If we want to enjoy videos shot with these JVC, Panasonic, Canon camcorders on Mac, PCs, iPad, iPhones, or other popular portable players, we shall meet the problem that MOD files recorded in JVC, Canon, Panasonic cannot be directly recognized in Quicktime on Mac, in iMovie, and other Apple products.

MOD files, encoded by using MPEG-2 video codec with AC3 audio codec, need converting to MP4,MOV, AVI,DV, H.264 on Mac. With a MOD Video Converter for Mac , you can freely convert JVC, Canon, Panasonic MOD files to Mac MP4, MOV, DV, etc. What’ s more, Mac MOD Video Converter can edit MOD files in iMovie, FCP , FCE , etc.

The following tutorial for you to convert JVC, Panasonic, Canon MOD videos to Mac step by step.
Step1: Upload MOD files
Click "Add File" to load MOD files that you selected after you lauched Mac MOD Video Converter.

Step2: Set Output Video Format on Mac
On the "Profile", you can click to select your final video format like MPEG-4, DV, MOV, H.264, etc for Mac.

Step3: Transfer MOD Files for Mac
Click "Start" to convert MOD videos, after waiting for a few minutes, you can watch converted MOD files on Mac.

Tips: Besides converting function, you can edit MOD files on Mac OS with MOD Converter for Mac, for example, crop video, edit video effect, merge several video files, trim video, etc. More details you can refer to edit MOD files on Mac.

Similar to TOD, MOD is a kind of recording format being used in digital tapeless camcorder like JVC, Panasonic, Canon. MOD video format is comparable to XDCAM EX, HDV and AVCHD.

MOD is used exclusively for standard definition video files, while TOD is used for high definition files. Both MOD and TOD are file-based formats that are stored on a random-access media. Directory structure and naming convention are identical except for extensions of media files. Standard definition video is stored in MPEG program stream container files with MOD extension; in most other systems these files have extension MPG or MPEG.

The following list is about JVC, Panasonic, and Canon MOD camcorders.

JVC MOD camcorders
* 2004: GZ-MC100 (SD), GZ-MC200 (SD)
* 2005: GZ-MG30 (HDD), GZ-MG70 (HDD)
* 2006: GZ-MG37 (HDD), GZ-MG77 (HDD), GZ-MG505 (HDD, SD/SDHC card)
* 2007: GZ-MG130 (HDD), GZ-MG155 (HDD), GZ-MG255 (HDD), GZ-MG555 (HDD, SD/SDHC card)
* 2008: GZ-MS100U (SD/SDHC card)
* 2008: GZ-MG7230 (30 GB HDD, MicroSD)
* 2009: GZ-MG630 (60 GB HDD, MicroSD), GZ-MG670 (80 GB HDD, MicroSD), GZ-MG680 (120 GB HDD, MicroSD)

Panasonic MOD camcorders
* 2003: SV-AV100 (SD card)
* 2005: SDR-S100 (SD card)
* 2006: SDR-S150 (SD/SDHC card)
* 2007: SDR-S10 (SD/SDHC card), SDR-H18 (HDD, SD card), SDR-H200 (HDD, SD/SDHC card)
* 2008: SDR-H20 (HDD, SD/SDHC card), SDR-H60 (HDD, SD/SDHC card)
* 2008: SDR-S7 (SD/SDHC card)
* 2008: SDR-SW20 (SD/SDHC card)
* 2009: SDR-SW21 (SD/SDHC card)
* 2009: SDR-S26 (SD/SDHC card)

Canon MOD Camcorders
* 2008: FS100 (SDHC), FS10 (SDHC), FS11 (SDHC)
* 2009: FS200 (SDHC), FS21 (SDHC), FS22 (SDHC)

For Mac users, when they want to watch MOD files shot by JVC, Panasonic, Canon camcorder with iPad, iPhones, iPods, in Quicktime, in iMovie, in iTunes, or on PCs, etc. They may be annoyed that how to upload MOD files to Mac and play MOD video on Mac OS.

Now, there are tutorial and guide for you below will help you solve these problems.

1. Connect your JVC, Panansonic, or Canon camcorder to your Macs or PCs with cable USB or Wifi.
2. Turn on your camera and select the mode of camcorder like PC mode. iMovie on Mac will open automatically the Import Window.
3. You can review your video or select "Import All"and select your JVC, Panasonic, or Canon camcorder on the computer screen and click "OK."
4. All camcorder MOD videos will have the file extension "MOD" Once the backup is complete, then close the program.

After uploading your camcorder MOD files to your PC or Mac, you can use a MOD Video Converter for Mac to convert MOD files to Mac firstly, and then you can play JVC, Panasonic, or Canon MOD files on Mac. More information about how to convert MOD files on Mac and edit MOD files on MacOS you can click here.

Canon, JVC, Panasonic, most of these types of camcorders recorded videos are MOD files(some are TOD used by JVC), such as Canon FS100, FS10, FS21, JVC GZ-MC100 (SD), GZ-MG630, GZ-MG680, Panasonic SDR-SW21, SDR-SW20, SDR-S26. If we want to enjoy videos shot with these JVC, Panasonic, Canon camcorders on Mac, PCs, iPad, iPhones, or other popular portable players, we shall meet the problem that MOD files recorded in JVC, Canon, Panasonic cannot be directly recognized in Quicktime on Mac, in iMovie, and other Apple products.

MOD files, encoded by using MPEG-2 video codec with AC3 audio codec, need converting to MP4,MOV, AVI,DV, H.264 on Mac. With a MOD Video Converter for Mac , you can freely convert JVC, Canon, Panasonic MOD files to Mac MP4, MOV, DV, etc. What’ s more, Mac MOD Video Converter can edit MOD files in iMovie, FCP , FCE , etc.


The following tutorial for you to convert JVC, Panasonic, Canon MOD videos to Mac step by step.

Step1: Upload MOD files
Click "Add File" to load MOD files that you selected after you lauched Mac MOD Video Converter.


Step2: Set Output Video Format on Mac
On the "Profile", you can click to select your final video format like MPEG-4, DV, MOV, H.264, etc for Mac.


Step3: Transfer MOD Files for Mac
Click "Start" to convert MOD videos, after waiting for a few minutes, you can watch converted MOD files on Mac.


Tips: Besides converting function, you can edit MOD files on Mac OS with MOD Converter for Mac, for example, crop video, edit video effect, merge several video files, trim video, etc. More details you can refer to edit MOD files on Mac.

Many JVC, Canon or Panasonic camcorder users who are running Mac OS are having headaches of how they can view or edit MOD files on Mac. MOD files are actually encoded with MPEG-2 video encoder, so what you need is to find get a player that can play MPEG-2 files. You can buy the MPEG-2 Playback Component, but it will cost you 20 dollars. The best player will be the VLC player and it’s free. But the perfect solution will be to convert MOD to other formats that are compatible with Mac OS and MOV is such a format because it is supported by QuickTime for playback and by iMovie for video editing.

To convert MOD to MOV, MOD to QuickTime or MOD to iMovie, you need a MOD to MOV converter Mac, and Doremisoft Mac MOD Converter is the perfect choice, because it can easily convert MOD to various video and audio formats and even edit your MOD files.

It only takes three easy steps to convert MOD to MOV Mac:

Step 1: Add MOD files
Click the "Add File" button to add the MOD files you want to convert to MP4 from your Mac hard disc. Then double click a file or select a file and click on "Open" to add it.
Step 2: Select the output format
Click on the small Down arrow at the very right of the Profile list to open the Profile drop-up list and you will see all the preset profiles. Move your mouse pointer to "HD Video" and click on "Quick Time MOV" when you see the HD video profile list to the right of “HD Video”.

If you want to convert MOD to iMovie, you can also use this format or go to iMovie and select a preset iMovie profile.

Tip 1: To convert all added MOD files into one format, you can just tick the "Apply to all" option.
Tip 2: If you want to edit your MOD files, click here to see how to Edit MOD files on Mac

Step 3: Start to convert MOD to MOV
After you finish the above steps, click on the Start button to start the conversion. And now you can just stretch your arms and wait till Doremisoft MOD to MOV converter finishes the conversion.

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Mac movie converter is also an excellent editing tool that has been enhanced to run on both PowerPC and Intel (Snow Leopard included). With it, you can edit your AVCHD (mts, m2ts etc) files freely. If you want to cut your videos to a certain length, no problem, by dragging the first slider to set the start time and the second to set the end time, you can easily achieve it by Trim function, adjust the aspect ratio by Crop function, or apply special effect to your files by Effect function. Besides, the merge function and built-in batch processing function are also available.
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