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Friday, April 22, 2016

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.

(Note: Click here for OS X 10.5)

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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