Convert Nikon D3100 Full HD MOV to Mac MOV for editing on FCE/FCP/iMovie with original frame rate

Posted by admin on March 21, 2011 Leave a comment Go to comments

Nikon D3100 is one of the top 10 Best Selling & Top Rated Digital SLR Cameras 2011 on Amazon, which record full 1080p HD videos in MOV format. But this MOV video format came from Nikon D3100 is a long GOP format that is highly compressed, it is not a good editing format. So you will not playback or edit smoothly the highly compressed MOV on your Mac with QuickTime Player, iMovie, FCE, Final Cut Pro. You need to convert the 1080p HD MOV footage off your Nikon D3100 with Aunsoft Mac Nikon D3100 MOV Converter for Snow Leopard. It does not only convert Nikon D3100 MOV to a playable/compatible Mac MOV, Apple DV, DV AVI, etc on Mac for FCP, FCE, iMovie, QuickTime Player, iDVD, etc, but also supports other Nikon D3100 cameras.

Here is the step-by-step guide for you to import and convert Nikon D3100 HD MOV files on iMac/MacBook Pro with Mac OS X like Tiger, Leopard, Snow Leopard.

Step 1. Load Nikon D3100 HD MOV videos to Aunsoft Video Converter for Mac.
After transferring .mov files from Nikon D3100 camera, run Aunsoft Video Converter for Mac as the best Mac Nikon D3100 to MOV/AVI Converter, and click the “Add” button to load .mov videos.

Step 2. Choose MOV(AVC) (*.mov), Apple DV, DV AVI, etc output format for FCP/iMovie/FCE.
Click the “Format” option, and choose Common Video > MOV – Quicktime(*.mov) for converting the highly compressed Nikon D3100 HD MOV to compatible Mac MOV for loading to Final Cut Studio/Pro, iMovie etc. Set 1920*1080 from the video size drop-down box to keep the original HD resolution and 16:9 aspect ratio. Click the drop-down box for bitrate and frame rate, and chose original. With this option, the output video will be kept as high definition1920×1080.

You also can choose the Final Cut Pro > Apple ProRes 422 (*.mov) as output format.Import Apple ProPres .mov format to Final Cut Pro/Final Cut Pro 7 without rendering for editing.

Step3. Merge Nikon D3100 1080 H.264 MOV files. (Optional)
Tick the checkbox for “Merge into one file”, and the Nikon D3100 1080p H.264 MOV converter will join and combine the video clips into a single file as output.

Step4. Convert Nikon D3100 1080 H.264 MOV on Mac
Click the convert button under the preview window, the Mac Nikon D3100 MOV converter starts converting Nikon D3100 MOV videos to Apple MOV, and joining the files for playing/editing on Mac.
After converting and merging the Nikon D3100 MOV files, just import the output files to Final Cut Studio/Pro, Final Cut Express (FCE) 4, iMovie 8/9 for editing still in HD, to Mac QuickTime Player for playing, to iDVD for burning with high quality.
If you are on a Windows computer with Windows XP/2003/Vista, Windows 7, Windows Home Server, and would like to put Nikon D3100 videos to Windows Moive Maker,Adobe Premiere,Sony Vegas for editing, just use the Windows Nikon D3100 video converter.