Edit Canon Vixia Series AVCHD camcorders files on Mac OS X

November 19, 2013 6:31 pm / Posted by Taylor Scorpio to Cameras/Camcorders

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Canon Vixia series camcorders record high definition video to very highly compressed AVCHD/MTS files, so Canon Vixia series now becomes very popular for its powerful features to capture video and video of our good and funny moments.

After capturing video, you must want to edit canon vixia AVCHD to perfect it for uploading your video to Youtube to share with your friends or burning to DVD to keep the memory the good. If you use Windows OS, you have Windows Movie Maker, a free and default video editor for Windows(Unluckily, Canon Vixia Video is not compatible with Windows Movie Maker, if you want to use Windows Movie Maker to edit Canon Vixia video, please go to How to Edit Canon Vixia Video with Windows Movie Maker). If you use Mac OS, you can use iMovie, a free and default video editing software for Mac, to edit Canon Vixia Video on Mac.(But iMovie can't natively support Canon Vixia video, please see How to import Canon Vixia Video into iMovie ).

Don't feel like using iMovie as Canon Vixia video editing software for mac? It doesn't matter. Canon Vixia Video Editor for mac is a good Vixia video editing software for Canon Vixia Series AVCHD Camcorders. With Mac Vixia video editor, you are able to edit Canon Vixia video on mac at the several aspects: crop vixia video to remove the vixia video areas, clip vixia video to get your favourite segments from your source vixia video and change vixia video brightness, contrast and saturation and so on.

Using Canon Vixia Video Editor Mac to edit Vixia AVCHD video on mac in the following aspects:

Crop vixia video
On the left preview window, you will see a green frame. You can drag its siders to define the cropping areas, or input the number to the "Crop" area.

Trim vixia video
Choose one of them, and click the "Play" button,at the below of the playback progress bar, there are two sliders, you can drag the first one to the point where you want to set start time, and the second to the point where to set end time. The duration of sliders is what you want.

Effect vixia video
If you are not satisfactory with your Vixia video, you can drag the sliders to change video brightness, contrast and saturation in the "Effect" area.

Vixia video export
Click the "Save" button on the below of the interface to save videos you have edited.

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