Importing Digital Video as MP4 Format

Hi

Neither .mp4 or .mov are Video formats (Codecs) - but containers that can hold Codecs iMovie can or can not use.

Open the video file with QuickTime-player

open Inspector [cmd+I]

Read

- Video Format (Codec) : nnnnnnnnnnn

- Frames per second : yyyyyyy

What does they say ?

Yours Bengt W

mfpjr wrote:

I want to import HD video from my Canon VIXIA HMF500 into my MacBook as an MP4 format. …

Why?

What do you expect using a different media-container?

and, btw, the movs in iM are transcoded (into aic) files, the original mts contains h264 encoded stuff.

there many options to rewrap that lossless into mov, mp4, flv, mkv, whatever wrapper ...

depending on, what your next step is ......