Converting MXF to Apple ProRes on Mac OS X El Capitan

Summary: This guide mainly shows you how to transcode and convert MXF files to ProRes 422 so that you can freely edit your MXF footages in FCP 6/7/X in Mac (EI Capitan Included).



MXF is a format adopted by some professional camcorders, like Canon C300, Canon XF100, Canon XF300, Panasonic P2 HVX200 or Sony XDCAM PDW-F800. Chances are you have recorded some MXF videos from above camcorders and also wanna import those MXF footages into Final Cut Pro for editing before uploading to YouTube or posting on Facebook. You will definitely get into troubles due to the MXF format is not compatible with most popular video editing applications including the Final Cut Pro on Mac.

To solve this problem, you need to transcode MXF to some specific format (ProRes 422) supported by FCP. Apple ProRes 422 a lossy video compression format intended for use during video editing. This format retains relatively high video quality. After transcoding MXF to ProRes codec, you can import any MXF clips to FCP 6/7/X easily, besides, you don't need to render the footages. To do the MXF to ProRes task, here Brorsoft MXF video Converter for Mac is highly recommended to you. It's compatible with any Mac OS system including the latest OX S EI Capitan.

With it you can rewrap MXF footages recorded from Canon, Panasonc or Sony cameras to Apple ProRes 422, Apple ProRes 422(HQ), Apple ProRes(LT), Apple ProRes(Proxy), Apple ProRes 4444 to fulfill your different quality needs when using in Final Cut Pro 7/6/X. If you're editing MXF files with Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro CC/CS6, Final Cut Express, Avid Media Composer or iMovie, chances are you already installed this great utility. If not, download it now and learn the step-by-step MXF to ProRes conversion.

Guide on Converting MXF to ProRes 422

Step 1：Add MXF files.

Install and launch the Mac MXF to ProRes converter, and then click "Add Video" button to locate and import MXF files. Note that you need to transfer MXF files from your MXF video to Mac Hard Drive before conversion and you can find the MXF video from one MXF whole structure folder.



Step 2: Select output format for FCP

Click on the "Format" bar and get the dropdown menu, then move your pointer to choose "Final Cut Pro> Apple PreRes 422" or "Apple ProRes 422 HQ" or "Apple ProRes 4444" as the output format.



Tips: If you want to set some parameters for the output profile, you could click the "Settings" button to set the output bitrate, encode, frame rate, resolution, sample rate, channels, etc.

Step 3: Start the MXF to ProRes MOV conversion on Mac

Click Convert button to start converting MXF to ProRes .mov for Final Cut Pro on Mac OS X.

Once the conversion completes, you can click "Open" to find the .MOV videos which can be directly imported to FCP. As you see, now you can import and edit MXF clips in Final Cut Pro 6/7/X without problems.

Additional Tips:
If you want to edit MXF media in Adobe Premiere Pro, please choose the " Adobe Premiere/Sony Vegas --> MPEG-2(*.mpg) " as output; For iMovie or FCE 4, choose the "iMovie and Final Cut Express -> Apple InterMediate Codec (AIC) (*.mov)". For Avid MC, choose "Avid Media Composer