Are you a Canon Vixia HF S10 user? If so, you should know it can record 1920 x 1080 Full HD recordings at 1080 60i/30p/24p. You may want to edit the videos from HF S10 to share with your friends by using the popular Video Editing Software -Adobe Premiere on your MacBook, iMac, ect. The you will meet some troubles when you
import Canon HF S10 Full HD recordings to Premiere for editing.
I've recently purchased the Canon Vixia HF S10 and I’m having trouble dragging and importing the AVCHD .mts videos into Adobe PP Cs5 timeline, these files need rendering for so long time, and the timeline becomes extremely sluggish when preview. Any solution?
Although, Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 and above version offers full native support for the high-definition video format AVCHD, when ingest the AVCHD footages, it still takes long time. The reason of this problem lies on the huge file size of AVCHD format. Plus, AVCHD is not the most compatible format for the Adobe. Thus, it will take more time for rendering AVCHD files for it. Well, if you wanna edit Canon Vixia HF S10 AVCHD in Adobe Premiere in an easier way, you’d better transcode Canon HF S10 AVCHD to Adobe Premiere Pro favorable format (eg.MPEG-2) with a professional Mac AVCHD Converter. Now, follow the detailed guide.
First, go to download and install the best
Canon MTS Converter for Mac, and add MTS/M2TS files to it.
Then, click the Format icon; select the Adobe Premiere/Sony Vegas> MPEG-2(*.mpg) profile as the output format.
Later, adjust audio and video parameters in Profile Settings. You’d better set the video size as 1920*1080 or keep the original size and frame rate as 30fps to get a suitable output for Adobe PP.
Finally, click the Convert button to start to
convert Canon Vixia HF S10 MTS to MEPG-2 on Mac for Adobe Premiere Pro (CS4/CS5/CS5.5/CS6) conversion.
After the conversion, you can get the re-encoded videos for Adobe Premiere from the output folder effortlessly. Now, you are able to edit Canon Vixia HF S10 AVCHD in Adobe Premiere Pro on Mac without rendering or any other problem.
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