Canon Vixia HF200 Best recording format for watching on Apple TV

Hello,
I just bought a Canon Vixia HF200 and I am trying to figure what is the best format to record in. The options for frame rate are 60i , pf30, pf24 .
Now I know Apple TV will accept 1280 x 780 at 24fps or 960 x 540 at 30fps.
I have already tested the 960 x 540 at 30fps using voltaic to convert the video.
But I have been unsuccessful getting the 1280 x 720 res video to transfer to apple tv.
I am wondering if pf24 is going to give me video that is 24 fps and what drawbacks there are to this format, or any tips.
Thanks
Thanks

I must apologise, I hadn't updated Voltaic in a while, I wasn't aware it converts to other formats, my older version doesn't, it only converts to AIC (which would have the extension .mov)
Can I ask why you want to create a movie at 1280 x 720 @ 24 fps rather than one at 960 x 540 @ 30 fps. If you like 24 fps video, that's fair enough, however if you perceive it to be higher quality you might want to run a comparison as I'm not convinced you'll notice much difference.
However if you wish to proceed with the export, the only part I can see that might be causing you a problem is your data rate, you might want to try 2000 or even more, you might need to set your frame rate to 24 and check that you have export to 24p selected in your Voltaic preferences.
Finally, there isn't any reason your PC cannot play .m4v files, you only need to ensure that Quicktime is installed.

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