How to Convert Nikon P600 H.264 MOV to AIC for iMovie/FCE editing?

Summary: If you just have purchased a new Nikon P600 camera, want to edit its MOV files in iMovie/FCE but failed? No worry, this post explains how to transcode Nikon P600 H.264 MOV video files to Apple InterMediate Codec (AIC) for use in iMovie and Final Cut Express,

The Nikon P600 is a DSLR-styled super-zoom camera with an impressive 60x optical zoom ranging from an equivalent 24mm to a whopping 1440mm telephoto. Introduced in February 2014, The COOLPIX P600 offers the choice of two Full HD video modes – 1080p25 and 1080i50. There’s also 720p25, iFrame 720p25 and 480p25. All of the video modes are also available in 30fps MOV format.

If you're been the Nikon DSLR users, you will know what the limitations of the video format the Nikon P600 DSLR in would be, including this new Nikon P600, When you try to put Nikon P600 H.264 MOV files to iMovie or FCE for editing, you will encounter more or less problems, Here we suggest you to transcode Nikon P600 H.264 MOV video files to AIC for iMovie/FCE.

To do format conversion, a third party converter app is necessary. Here HD Video Converter for Mac is best choice as a Nikon MOV to AIC Converter, It is a very easy product to use. Even if you are is also able to handle AVCHD, MXF, XDCAM, XAVC, XAVC S, MKV... files and generate files for use in FCP X, DaVinci Resolve, Avid Media Composer, Premiere Pro CS6, Sony Vegas, iOS devices, Android Devices, and more.

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How to Transcode Nikon P600 H.264 MOV to AIC for iMovie/FCE?

Step 1. Download and install HD Video Converte for Mac as a Nikon Video to NLS Converter for Mac, and click on “Add Video”, and browse your files the definite folder; select all the Nikon P600 .MOV files you wanna convert.



Step 2. From Format bar to select iMovie and Final Cut Express > Apple Intermediate Codec(AIC) (*.mov). In the Profile Settings window, you can adjust the video and audio parameters if needed. Recommended video, audio settings are presented as below.



Step 3. When ready, click 'Convert' to start converting Nikon P600 MOV to AIC for iMovie/FCE on Mac OS X. When the conversion task is done, you can get the resulted video via clicking Open Folder icon. You can effortlessly import Nikon P600 H.264 MOV to iMovie/FCE for further editing.

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