Convert Canon FS200 camcorder MOD

How to convert/upload/use Canon FS200/FS20 mod video to imovie/FCP on mac?

Canon's FS200 is a flash memory-based standard definition camcorder with a 37x optical zoom lens and a 2.7-inch LCD to get stunning video in a light, compact and user-friendly package. The FS200 records video in the .mod (basically a special MPEG-2) format at 720 x 480 resolution with three settings: a high quality mode with a bit rate of 9Mbps, medium quality at 6Mbps and a low quality 3Mbps.
 

All of these are great, till you find it is a problem importing the .MOD footages from Canon FS200 to Mac iMovie/FCP. Even the raw mod video could be successfully loaded to Mac, the film will looks quite jumpy. Mod isn't mac compatible format and you need to Convert/transcode the mod video to a format more friendly for iMovie, for instance, the MOV. The following passage guides you how to convert Canon FS200 footages to MOV file for iMovie/FCP.

Queation1:
How Do I Upload Canon FS200 Video to a Mac?

My Canon FS200 doesn't even show up on my desktop when I plug it into my MacBook Pro, and I can't figure out how to import video from it. The software that camera with is exclusively for Windows. Any idea what I can do here?

Question2:
Canon Camcorder FS200 uploading to iMovie '09. HELP!?

I just get a new Canon FS200 Camcorder and the videos are great quality when I hook the camera up to my TV. But when I upload my videos to imovie '09 the quality is horrible! I love to edit videos but I can't use the camcorder footage because it becomes all pixely, colors are less vivid, and the picture becomes very dark once uploaded to the Mac. Anyone have any advice? Please help. I've already returned one camcorder this month due to poor image quality and I don't want to have to do that again.

Queation3:
How do I get my Canon FS200 Camcorder to sync to or be recognized on my Mac?

I have a Mac OSX version 10.4.11 which comes with Imovie 6.0.3 and if updating my imovie to imovie '09 is the answer then i want to be completely sure because if i do that i have to buy the entire "ilife" pack to get imovie '09 and it is $80 and i don't want to do that to find that my computer still won't recognize my camera.

The easiest way to get the video from that Canon FS200 camcorder to a Mac is using Canon FS200 to iMovie Converter. It can help you to convert the mod video files to a file type your Mac and iMovie can recognize. iMovie likes MOV and MP4 video files among others.

Canon FS200 to iMovie Converter is a quick and easy-to-use mod converting utility for mac os x. The purpose of this software is to convert mod file to the most popular video formats, including MOV, MP4, DV, AVI, MPG, MPEG, FLV, WMV, MTS etc. The conversion process is very easy to handle with super fast speed. It also allows you to edit/cut/crop/trim mod files before performing converting.