Convert Sony AX53 XAVC S/AVCHD footage for editing on Final Cut Pro

Summary: Below article mainly talks about the way to transfer Sony FDR-AX53 XAVC S/AVCHD footage into FCP X/7/6. If you have the intention to get your FCP ingest XAVC S/AVCHD files smoothly, keep reading...



Sony FDR-AX53 is a 4K Ultra HD Handycam Camcorder that just comes to the market, this new camcorder is released by Sony at the begin of this year. It offers a new Exmore CMOS sensor with approximately 1.6 times the pixel size for better low light capture. The built-in microphone is also new, now capable of recording 5.1 audio as standard. What's more, this new handycam camcorder also has excellent recording ability, you can use it to record 4K and HD movies in the XAVC S MP4 format, or you can also choose to record HD in AVCHD MTS format, the videos recorded by XAVC S and AVCHD are all in high quality.

You may have got the Sony AX53 camcorder and used it recorded some stunning videos, after recording footage, are you want to edit the 4K/HD footage with Final Cut Pro? While it seems that no matter FCP 6, FCP 7 or even FCP X doesn't work well with XAVC S, AVCHD and some MP4 files mainly because of the ultra high video resolution and the format compatibility problems. In light of this, it is quite necessary to convert Sony FDR-AX53 4K XAVC S/AVCHD MTS video to Apple ProRes.mov, which ensures the maximum editing efficiency and quality when working with FCP X/7/6.

To get the work done, you can take Brorsoft Video Converter for Mac. With its help, you can effortlessly convert 4K XAVC S/AVCHD .mts files from Sony AX53 to FCP X/7/6 Apple ProRes codec, with fast spped and stunning output quality. The all-in-one toolkit can also convert virtually all popular video format like AVI, MKV, VOB, WMV, FLV, etc. for conveniet editing and playing on Mac OS X (Yosemite and El Capitan included). Besides, this program also supports some practical video editing functions. With these function, you can crop the frame size, add watermark, load subtitle, merge several videos into one file, etc. If you work XAVC S/AVCHD files from Sony AX53 in Final Cut Pro on Windows PC, please get Brorsoft Video Converter to solve the issues.

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Convert files from Sony AX53 to FCP X Apple ProRes

Step 1: Add Sony FDR-AX53 footage

Install and launch the Sony Handycam 4K video converter and load source AX53 video clips(not matter in 1080p, 4K) to it.



Step 2: Choose FCP compatible format

Go to "Format" bar and choose "Final Cut Pro > Apple ProRes 422 (*.mov)" as output format for editing XAVC S footage in Final Cut Pro X or FCP 7.



Tips: Adjust video, audio settings

Click the "Settings" button and customize proper video/audio parameters including Video size, bitrate and fame rate and more. Usually 1920*1080 video size and 30fps video frame rate are recommended for FCP editing. Well, if you prefer to work with 4K video, you can keep the original 4K resolution.



Step 3: Start encoding Sony FDR-AX53 videos

Click “Convert” button to start transcoding Sony AX53 XAVC S/AVCHD/MP4 video to ProRes.mov for importing to FCP X/7/6.

When the conversion task is finished, click “Open” button to get the exported files and then import the converted Sony AX53 video files into Final Cut Pro To do further editing flawlessly.

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Best workflow of Importing & Editing Canon C300 Mark II 4K onto Final Cut Pro

Summary: This article mainly talks about how to convert/compress 4K footage from Canon C300 Mark II to ProRes.mov, so that you can have a smooth editing workflow with Final Cut Pro.

Thanks to its execllent hardware equipment, Canon C300 Mark II has attracted great attention since it released. Featured with a Super 35mm CMOS sensor, you are allowed to record 4K, 1920*1080 60/50i, 23.98/25p True 24p videos. Along with its XF AVC Codec - an H.264 format wrapped by the widely-supported MXF format, making the integration of both 4K and 2K/Full HD footage into workflows effortless, while maintaining the highest image quality. After shooting some amazing 4K videos with the Canon EOS C300 Mark II camcorder, chances are you want to edit those Canon 4K MXF footage with Final Cut Pro before uploading to Twitter or posting on Facebook, then you are likely to encounter some problems as below:

"I've got a ton of Canon EOS C300 Mark II footage that I'm trying to import the EOS C300 Mark II 4K MXF files to FCP X for further editing. Since the files come out natively as MXF, FCP X couldn't recognize these files at all, let alone do the polishing work. What should I do?"

In fact, the XF-AVC as a new codec, it isn't natively supported by most editing software including Final Cut Pro. Although Canon provides Canon XF Utility of XF-AVC, this does not enable us to import or transcode the files for use in FCP X/7/6. So if you stick to importing Canon C300 Mark II recordings to FCP X/7/6 flawlessly, you'd better transcode Canon 4K/2K/1080P video to a more editable format for Final Cut Pro X/7/6, such as Apple's ProRes. Granted that there are many MXF Converter programs on market, but few of them can support converting videos with fast speed and zero quality loss. After multiple testing, I find Brorsoft MXF Video Converter for Mac is the best choice!

Overall, it is capable of converting Canon XF as well as Sony XDCAM and Panasonic P2 MXF to Apple ProRes, DNxHD, MPEG-2, AIC, etc on Mac OS X for smoothly importing and editing in various non-linear editing systems (NLE), including Final Cut Pro X/7/6, Avid Media Composer 5.5/6.0/6.5, Adobe Premiere Pro, iMovie and more.For Windows users, please get MXF Converter for Windows. Below is how. Just take a look at the brief guide below.

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Converting Canon C300 MKII 4K footage for FCP X, FCP 7 (El Capitan)

Step 1. Load C300 Mark II footage

Launch the program and click “Add ” button to import the Canon C300 MKII 4K MXF files to the top MXF to ProRes Converter Mac. Batch conversion is supported.



Step 2. Specify output format

Click on the “Format” bar and get the dropdown menu, then move your pointer to choose “Final Cut Pro> Apple PreRes 422” as the output format.



Tip: Click “Settings” button if you’d like to customize advanced audio and video parameters like Video Codec, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, Audio codec, sample rate, audio channels.

Step 3. Start the conversion

Click the “Convert” icon under the preview window, and the Mac MXF to FCP Converter will start transcoding C300 MK II footage to Prores MOV for FCP X on Mac.

After the conversion, click the “Open” button to locate converted files, then load ProRes .MOV files in FCP (X). Now you can successfully and easily import Canon C300 Mark II 4K MXF files to FCP 6/7 or FCP X for editing with best quality.

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