Importing Digital Video as MP4 Format

I want to import HD video from my Canon VIXIA HMF500 into my MacBook as an MP4 format. iMovie only saves it as a .mov file. any suggestions?

mfpjr wrote:
I want to import HD video from my Canon VIXIA HMF500 into my MacBook as an MP4 format. …
Why?
What do you expect using a different media-container?
and, btw, the movs in iM are transcoded (into aic) files, the original mts contains h264 encoded stuff.
there many options to rewrap that lossless into mov, mp4, flv, mkv, whatever wrapper ...
depending on, what your next step is ......

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