"Hi, the other day, I bought the excellent Sony PXW-FS7 camcorder, and greatly impressed by its capturing quality. When I copy the test footage I shot to my hard drive, the actual mxf clip is found in XDROOT > Clip, but as I trying to import those files into final cut 7, neither single clip nor entire folders can be recognized by log and transfer. What's wrong with that? Any help? Thanks! "
In fact, to ensure users have the most comprehensive Ultra-HD 4K video editing experience, more and more video editing programs provide compatibility of XAVC and Sony itself also generates plug-ins like XAVC/XDCAM Plug-in for Apple (PDZK-LT2) to enable Final Cut Pro ingest Sony XAVC files correctly. While, the plug-in requires Final Cut Pro X 10.1 or later, that means if you want to import Sony PXW-FS7 XAVC to Final Cut Pro 7 or its previous versions, it won’t work. On this case, in order to ensure a smooth Sony PXW-FS7 4K workflow, a better workaround here is to transcode and rewrap Sony PXW-FS7 XAVC clips into Apple ProRes codec, which ensures the maximum editing efficiency and quality when working with all versions of Final Cut Pro.
Now I share the guide with you how to convert Sony PXW-FS7 XAVC to Final Cut Pro friendly format using Brorsoft Video Converter for Mac. With it, you can effortlessly encode/re-encode XAVC intra footage shot from Sony PXW-FS7 as well as PWM-F5, F55, PXW-X180, etc for smoothly importing and editing in various non-linear editing systems (NLE), including FCP X/7/6, Premiere Pro, Avid Media Composer, iMovie and more. If you’re using a Windows, please turn to Video Converter, which can help you solve the XAVC codec to FCP 7 incompatibility on Windows.
Download the XAVC converter app:
(Note: Click here for OS X 10.5)
How to Open Sony PXW-FS7 XAVC videos in FCP 7
Step 1: Launch the Sony XAVC to FCP Converter. Click "Add" icon to load video files from Sony PXW-FS7 or directly drag&drop the files into file list.
Step 2: Click the "Format" bar and select Final Cut Pro> Apple ProRes 422(*.mov) as output format, which should work with FCP 7 perfectly.
Tip: If you wanna, you can go to the "Settings" page to customize proper video/audio parameters including Video size, bitrate and fame rate and more.
Step 3: After all necessary settings, hit the convert button to start the Sony PXW-FS7 XAVC to ProRes conversion on Mac OS X. Once the conversion process shows 100%, click Open to get the output videos. Now you can edit the encoded Sony PXW-FS7 XAVC videos in FCP 7 without problem.
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