Canon Vixia HF200 Best recording format for watching on Apple TV

What exactly do you intend doing with your video, without knowing I'd be tempted to suggest you shoot at 1080/60i, import and edit it in imovie and export to the large format.

However if you don't intend editing, or indeed keeping higher quality video for other uses, your options may be different. Please let us know a little more about your intentions.

I don't believe Voltaic will change the resolution of your files. Voltaic is a good tool to have, it's handy id ever you want to rework your original .mts files, but it may not be the best tool at this time.

Are your videos still on your camera, do you have imovie 08/09.

Not to worry, I movie will only import directly from the camera, it won't import them when you've moved them to your mac.

Voltaic will create AIC files from the .mts files, it will take a little longer than imovie does from the camera, but it essentially does the same thing. Your AIC files will be huge, this is normal don't worry about it. You should now be able to import them into imovie using the import movie option from the file menu rather than the import from camera option.

Does this make sense, have you been able to achieve this.

No your issue is that voltaic produces AIC files which cannot be played by the tv.

I've never tried myself, but you may be able to drop these AIV (mov) files into itunes, select them from the list of movies in itunes and choose 'convert to Apple tv format' from the advanced menu in itunes.

I know imovie can do this but it would involve learning how to use it a little bit, I also know QT pro can do it, but don't know whether you have it or know how to use it.

Try the itunes approach for now, if it works fine, you have your movies on the tv.

However in time you won't be satisfied with just doing this and will likely want to at the very least cut out shots of the floor and add a title, when you're ready watch the imovie tutorials or ask away in the imovie forums.

I must apologise, I hadn't updated Voltaic in a while, I wasn't aware it converts to other formats, my older version doesn't, it only converts to AIC (which would have the extension .mov)

Can I ask why you want to create a movie at 1280 x 720 @ 24 fps rather than one at 960 x 540 @ 30 fps. If you like 24 fps video, that's fair enough, however if you perceive it to be higher quality you might want to run a comparison as I'm not convinced you'll notice much difference.

However if you wish to proceed with the export, the only part I can see that might be causing you a problem is your data rate, you might want to try 2000 or even more, you might need to set your frame rate to 24 and check that you have export to 24p selected in your Voltaic preferences.

Finally, there isn't any reason your PC cannot play .m4v files, you only need to ensure that Quicktime is installed.