Import Canon C100 Mark II AVCHD to Avid Media Composer

Import Canon C100 Mark II AVCHD to Avid Media Composer

Summary: While you importing Canon C100 Mark II AVCHD footage to Avid MC, problems will come up. Avid Media Composer crashes when browsing and importing your C100 Mark II AVCHD files. Get the best solution to the issue from this article.

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The Canon C100 Mark II Digital HD Camera offers all of the advantages of its predecessor while adding advanced new imaging and operational features by popular demand. In addition to improved RGB video processing, the camera's dual codec capability supports simultaneous AVCHD and MP4 recording, including 59.94P capture along with slow and fast motion recording. (See also: MTS File Extension Details and Tips)

If you shot with a Canon C100 Mark II camera, you may run into the same situation below while editing its AVCHD footage in Avid MC: "I have recorded many HD footages from Canon C100 Mark II that in AVCHD video format, now I would like to import these projects to Avid Media Composer 5.5 for editing. What I want is to edit AVCHD files natively in Avid MC on my Macbook, but I found the Avid MC can't handle the 1080 60p files smoothly."

Avid Media Composer is a popular and professional movie editing software. Gain the speed, confidence, and inspiration to tell great stories using a powerful editing tool that works the way you want to work, supports all the formats you need, and blazes through projects in ways you never thought possible. Since Avid is so powerful and functional, why Avid MC couldn't handle AVCHD footages well?

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In fact, AVCHD is a high compressed codec and it's not a good editing format for many video editing software, including Avid MC. Besides, the 5.5 version is out-dated and needs to be upgraded. The latest Avid MC 6.5 may support to import C100 Mark II AVCHD files without any trouble. If you think it is a troublesome thing, you can use a third-party program to convert AVCHD to DNxHD, natively supported by Avid, before importing and editing.

The utility applied here is the professional Pavtube MTS/M2TS Converter for Mac. By running it, there's no need to set the codec by yourself; the Mac program has optimized presets for Avid Media Composer. It can also help you convert C100 Mark II AVCHD files to AIC, MPEG-2, ProRes for iMovie, Premiere, FCP and more. If you meet AVCHD to Avid MC issues on PC, get the equivalent Windows version- Pavtube MTS/M2TS Converter.

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Here is a step-by-step tutorial for you to figure out your AVCHD MTS footage to Avid MC problem:

Step 1: Import Canon C100 Mark II files to Mac MTS Converter. Run it as the best Mac MTS Converter, and click the "Add video" button to load your original files. You may also directly drag and drop files to application UI for importing files.

Step 2: Click the "Format" bar to get the drop-down menu and you can get "Avid Media Composer>>Avid DNxHD (*.mov)" as the best output format.

Step 3: Click "Settings" button to customize the output video and audio settings by yourself. But if you are not good at it, you'd better use the default parameters, they will ensure you a good balance between file size and image quality basically. You can change the resolution, bit rate, frame rate as you need.

Step 4: When everything is ready, click "Convert" to start converting C100 Mark II AVCHD MTS to DNxHD. This Mac MTS/M2TS Converter supports batch conversion so you may load multiple files and convert them at one time.

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