Canon HG10 could be referred as Legria HG10 and Vixia HG10 HD camcorder. Canon HG10 was available for sales since 2007. Canon HG10 has 40GB internal hard disk drive (DHH) for recording full HD 1080 quality AVCHD files. You can records HD videos straight to HDD in AVCHD .mts format.

Transfer Canon HG10 AVCHD Files:
For Mac users, just make sure that Canon HG10 is in "player mode", and connect to your MAC via USB cable. Then you would see the camcorder mount as a external drive. If iMovie read it correctly, it will pop up as soon as it is detected as a device, and load with a preview with all your movies on HG10. You can select import, but it actually transcodes files to .mov format. Another way for Apple user is to directly copy from camcorder HDD to Apple hard drive, and it is faster with direct copying.

Convert and Edit Canon HG10 MTS movies:

And here is detailed guide to edit AVCHD MTS/M2TS video files:



Step 1. Import Canon HG10 AVCHD MTS video files into video editor for Mac
After launch the AVCHD Video Editor for Mac, just click the "Add File" button to import videos you want to edit. At the right side, it will pop up a window to show you the added videos.

Step 2. Trim Video
Choose one of them, and click the "Play" button, it will show you two preview window, the left one for the source file, the right for the output file. At the below of the playback progress bar, there are two sliders, you can drag the first one to the point where you want to set start time, and the second to the point where to set end time. The duration of sliders is what you want.

Step 3. Crop Video
On the left preview window, you will see a green frame. You can drag its siders to define the cropping areas, or input the number to the "Crop" area.

Stet 4. Video Effecting
If you are not satisfactory with your video, you can drag the sliders to change video brightness, contrast and saturation in the "Effect" area.

Step 5. Do Video Setting
Click "Settings" button to get Video resolution, frame rate, encoder, bitrate and audio sample rate, channel, encoder and bitrate.

Step 6. Merge Video and Flip Video
If you want to merge all videos you have added into one, just check the "Merge into one file" option at the below of "Effect" area. And you can click the flipping video buttons below the preview window to separate rotate video horizontally or vertically.

Step 7. Save Video
Click the "Save" button on the below of the interface to save videos you have edited. Besides, you can choose any audio/video formats for output files. It supports output video formats like 3GP, 3G2, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, FLV, SWF, MKV, DV, RMVB/RM, AVI, DIVX, WMV, M4V, MOV, AMV, MTV, SMV, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, MOV, WMV, AVI and audio formats including MP3, WMA, AAC, WAV, RA, M4A, AC3, MP2, AMR, MKA, AIFF, FLAC.