The explosion of digital SLRs with video capability has turned many traditional videographers and photographers toward cameras such as the Canon EOS-1D Mark IV, EOS 5D Mark II/III, EOS 5D, EOS 7D, EOS-1D X, EOS 60D and the newly-introduced EOS Rebel T4i (EOS 650D) to create stunning high definition footage at a very affordable price. The impressive video image quality of Canon’s EOS digital SLRs is their use of the sophisticated H.264/MPEG-4 compression method for recording video files to the camera’s memory card. This is an ideal file type for video capture in an SLR camera, delivering relatively compact file sizes with image quality noticeably superior to alternate video compressions (such as Motion JPEG). However, the H.264 codec is not good for iMovie editing, it takes long time to render, and you can’t edit the Canon H.264 video files smoothly in iMovie.
In attempting of importing Canon EOS H.264 mov to iMovie for editing without problems, the H.264 compression format requires that files be transcoded into a format better suited to editing, effects, and color grading; this would usually be Apple InterMediate Codec (AIC) (*.mov). To achieve your goal smoothly, the following tutorial will guide you through how to convert Canon EOS H.264 videos to AIC MOV for iMovie, guarannteed to import and edit Canon H.264 MOV files in iMovie smoothly.
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