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How to Burn Canon Video to DVD on Mac

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"I shoot some HDMI videos through my Canon FS Camcorder but the file size is so big (almost 22min video size is 3.5GB). How can I transfer this video in to DVD with less size at the same time with same quality? The videos are on a SD memory card and I want to put the videos onto a DVD so I can watch them on TV. What program would you recommend that might do it. Thanks!"

Canon FS Camcorder is one of most popular digital camcorders. It shot video as AVCHD format. The file extension is M2TS after import to computer and MTS on camcorder. AVCHD has been designed to be compatible with Blu-ray format. So if you have blank Blu-ray DVD Disc at hand, you can directly burn the shot video with DVD authoring software, though not all Blu-ray Disc players accept AVCHD discs. Compared with HD DVD, standard DVD disc is much cheaper and DVD player is more affordable to most of family.

So if you want to burn Canon Vixia M2TS video to DVD without additional payment on Blu-ray DVD Burner and Blu-ray player, you would better convert MTS camcorder video to standard video format, then burn the output video to DVD with the freeware iDVD. To import Canon video to iDVD you need a Mac Canon video Converter - iFunia AVCHD Converter for Mac, which allows you to convert almost any HD video like M2TS, MTS video to iDVD supported QuickTime movies like MOV, MPEG-4, AVI and more. In addition, it also provides various attractive editing functions to personalize the output video.

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Step 1: Importing M2TS/MTS videos

Now, we need to import Canon M2TS files that need to be burned, copy the M2TS file from camcorder onto the local hard drive first and then click the "Add Files" button to add the AVCHD M2TS videos which you want to convert to DVD, you may add as many M2TS videos as you want for batch conversion to DVD.

Step 2: Edit videos to improve the output quality (Optional)

After importing AVCHD MTS/M2TS videos, please click "Edit" button to access to the Video Edit panel. To personalize your video, you can also try to add picture or text watermark with customized transparency, size and position in your videos. For people who want to output 1 single file for easily playing on their portable device, simply click on the video titles which needs to be merged , then click 'Merge' button.

Step 3: Convert Canon M2TS video to iDVD supported video format

After you finish video source setup, you can select your preferred video format from the "Output Format" drop-down menu. There are various format/bit rate/screen resolution options in the Setting window. Different file formats result in different video compression rates. Bit rate refers to the number of bits processed per unit of time, the larger the number, the more bits processed and the better the quality. Resolution refers to the number of pixels handled by the device display.

Step 4: Start MTS/M2TS to DVD conversion

After all the settings, click the 'Start' button for M2TS to DVD video conversion on Mac. The convert progress bar shows you how much of the encoding is completed.

Step 5: Importing to iDVD

Import the converted QuickTime movie to iDVD and start creating DVD from Canon M2TS source video. iFunia AVCHD Video Converter for Mac guarantees that your video is now in a compatible format for importing to iDVD.