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Thursday, December 7, 2017

Best Canon Footage Converter To Convert AVCHD To MP4 MKV MOV

For half a century, Canon, one of the big names in photography world, remains an important force in SLRS, cameras, cameras and multi-function devices. Canon digital camera/camera provides clear image quality and performance. Most Canon camcoders could record AVCHD files today, so what is AVCHD file?

AVCHD - a  variant of the H.264 format, this is a high definition video file format found on most Canon, Sony, and Panasonic HD camcorders (other manufacturers support it as well). AVCHD camcorders can capture very high-quality video and they can also burn HD video to a standard DVD disc, which can be played back on a Blu-ray disc player.

You can use your Canon camcoder on different occassion, for example, you can shoot a 4k footage on a wedding, after that, you will find this is only few minutes of video have a dozen or even more than 20GB. The question left is that how to play, edit, and share the footage without any obstacle. It is not easy to play such kind of video, and it is so big. If your computer is not powerful enough, all those are absolute nonsense. So today, this article aims to help you to play and edit Canon AVCHD video at will without any video formats imcompatibility issue or other issues.

But before we get to start, one thing you have to prepare - a powerful third-part software - Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate/for Mac. This program could convert the video recorded from Canon HD camcorder/camera AVCHD to H.264, MP4, MOV, AVI, MPEG, FLV, WMV etc. Moreover, for video editors, this program offers you dozens of optimized video formats for FCP X, iMovie, FCE, Avid Media Composer, Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, Kdenlive, Apple Aperture 3, DaVinci Resolve, iPhoto, etc.

Moreover, you can adjust the video and audio bitrate, frame rate, resolution, channel and more parameters to make the outputed video more fit in your video player and multimedia devices. More functions in this guide for you to make reference.

Below, we will go with Windows verison to show you how to work with Canon Video Converter to seamlessly convert, edit and transfer Canon footages. Its Mac version has the same operating procedures.

Step By Step To Convert Canon Footage For Playback & Edit & Share

Step 1: Import Canon AVCHD video sources

Free download this perfect Canon video converter on Windows, and then run it & click add video button to import Canon HD video footage to program or directly drag the files to main interface.

load canon source

Step 2: Choose output format

This part is open, and depends on your heart. If you want to do further video edit, you can navigate to "Adobe Premiere" or other category as you like. Below are Windows & Mac version screenshot.

Windows Version

ultimate premiere

Mac Version

mac version

Tips: From the screenshot above, you can see that this program offers you hundreds of optimized device presets, like iPhone, Samsung, Game console, TVs, and more. If you have selected one, then you don't need do any change.

Step 3: Adjust output profile settings at will

Can you see the "Settings" on the UI, click it and you will entre a window, here you can do any change to your Canon video. For example, you can lower video bit rate to get smaller video size. Normally, video size is based more on bit rate than resolution(pix).

adjust settings

Step 4: Start Canon Video Conversion Process

After you have done all setting, click "Convert" red button on the main interface. Wait for a while, then cilck open, it will pop up a folder with the converted file. By the way, this software supports you to import several files at a time.