Ingest/Import Canon VIXIA HF G10 MTS/M2TS files to Sony Vegas

A Review for Canon Vixia HF G10

Canon Vixia HF G10 Pros
●Class leading image quality in bright and low light
●Native 24p
●Bountiful manual controls
●High quality glass
●Exceptional build and design, including dual SD card slots and focus ring
●Improved built-in microphone
●Gaggle of in-camera customizable shooting filters available
●Mini HDMI cable included in the box

Canon Vixia HF G10 Cons
●Limited battery life requires the purchase of additional packs
●Basic editing software included
●Powerhouse computer and software needed to handle large video files
●Touchscreen LCD is stubborn at times
( Source: technobuffalo.com on June 10, 2011 in Camera, Reviews)

On the other hand , to the majority of film lovers, we know that Sony Vegas Pro with powerful post-processing functions can follow our wishes to make video clips, add special effects, adjust color, edit subtitles and other operations. But the Sony Vegas users say that they are bothered by the incompatiblity problem when they intented to edit or render Canon HF G10 AVCHD footages in Sony Vegas. It is not the "fault" in HF G10, but the AVCHD format, saving the files with the .mts,.m2ts extension, which can not be natively supported by Sony Vegas.

Actually, MPEG-2 is the most compatible video format for Sony Vegas. So what you need to do is just to convert Canon AVCHD footages to MPEG-2 for Sony Vegas . Thus, you will a powerful conversion software to help you complete it. Here I'd like to highly recommened Brorsoft AVCHD to MPEG-2 Converter for you.

Brorsoft Canon Vixia HF G10 AVCHD to MPEG-2 Converter is not only professional in transcoding Canon VIXIA HF G10 AVCHD files to MPEG-2, but also combined with many useful editing features, including merging several videos into one file, cropping video size, trimming video clips and adding special effects and text,image,video watermarks to output videos. After the AVCHD to MPEG-2 Conversion, you can easily copy HF G10 footages to Sony Vegas without any problem.

Follow the guide listed below to copy Canon VIXIA HF G10 1080p AVCHD Files to Sony Vegas for Editing .

Step 1: Connect your HF G10 to your PC with USB2.0. Launch the MTS to MPEG-2 Converter and then click the adding button to add your MTS,M2TS files to it. .
Tip: If you want to merge MTS,M2TS files , just need to check the “Merge into one” box.


Step 2: Get the dropdown menu of “Format” and then move your pointer to “Adobe Premiere,Sony Vegas”. Choose MPEG-2 as the output format from the profile list which is the Sony Vegas Pro compatible video format. Afterwards, you can set the output folder. Besides, WMV (VC-1) (*.wmv) and MOV (AVC)(*.mov) are also options for you.

Step 3: Go to the “Profile Settings” interface by clicking the “Settings”. You can customize codec, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate and audio channel in the interface according to your needs and optimize the output file quality.
Notes:
1: You’d better keep your original video size and set the frame rate as 30fps for adding HF G10 1080p,1080i AVCHD footages to Sony Vegas Pro.
2: You can click Edit and then you can deinterlace 1080i MTS,M2TS files in the Video Editor if you choose 60i mode.

Step 4: Click the button for "Convert" and then you can deinterlace and transcode Canon VIXIA HF G10 1080p,1080i footages to Sony Vegas immediately at 3~5 faster speed thanks to CUDA,AMD accerleration technology. You can find the process in the “Conversion” interface.



When the AVCHD to MPEG-2 conversion process is 100% completed, you are able to put Canon VIXIA HF G10 AVCHD files onto Sony Vegas Pro by clicking on the “Open” button effortlessly. Now you can edit the converted video files in Sony Vegas easily .

Tip: The AVCHD to Sony Vegas Pro Converter can also help you to convert MTS,M2TS files to Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere, Avid Media Composer, Windows Live Movie Maker, etc. If you want to learn more about, please link to Brorsoft AVCHD to MPEG-2 Converter and get more info about it.

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