Solve Trouble with Importing Sony PMW-400 XAVC to FCP 7

Summary: Having trouble importing Sony PMW-400 XAVC to FCP 7? This article will tell you how to convert XAVC from PMW-400 to ProRes for FCP 7 editing.

The new shoulder-mount camcorder PMW-400 is designed to acquire high quality, clean images especially in low-light environments. It is the latest addition to its XDCAM HD422 line-up. Sony PMW-400 supports multiple SD and HD codecs and XAVC ready and is an affordable 3x 2/3-inch CCD high quality sensor broadcast camcorder that, like the PMW-500, supports all SD / HD 422 broadcast workflows using MXF and XDCAM EX workflows using MP4 and AVI. It is also future-proofedto support XAVC 10-bit HD422 recordings.

XAVC enables a really wide variety of operational possibilities for content material production, notably: From Proxy to 4K pixel resolutions, intra frame and lengthy GOP schemes, and 1080 50P/60P infrastructure capability. When you try to import Sony PMW-400 recordings to FCP 7 for further editing, you will encounter problems:

“Can anyone tell me how can I import Sony PMW-400 XAVC footages to FCP 7 for editing? I record some videos with the PMW-400, but it seems that FCP 7 does not support the footages.”

Solution: Till now, FCP 7 cannot edit Sony PMW-400 XAVC files directly. If you need to edit Sony PMW-400 XAVC footages in FCP 7 losslessly, you have to convert XAVC to FCP compatible ProRes .mov formats in advance.

To do this conversion, Pavtube HD Video Converter for Mac (review) is highly recommended. This program can easily handle XAVC to ProRes 422 conversion with excellent output video quality at ultrafast converting speed.

               

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Now, follow the guide below to transcode Sony PMW-400 XAVC footage to ProRes MOV in details.

Step 1: Launch the HD Video Converter on your Mac, and then click the “Add video” button to import your XAVC videos from Sony PMW-400 directly. In order to import several files at one time, you can click “Add from folder” button.



Step 2: Click the “Format” bar to get the drop-down menu and you can get “Final Cut Pro>>Apple ProRes codec”, including ProRes 422, ProRes 422 (HQ), ProRes 422 (LT), ProRes 422 (Proxy) and ProRes 4444. Choose the proper one you want.



Step 3: Press the “Settings” icon and you’d better set the video frame rate as 30fps, video size as 1920*1080 for editing Sony PMW-400 XAVC in FCP 7 easily.

Step 4: Now, click "Convert" and let it go. The XAVC to FCP 7 Converter for Mac supports batch conversion. So if you have lots of XAVC videos to convert, check “Shut down computer after conversion” and you can go away without keeping an eye on it.

Conclusion: Once the conversion process shows in 100%, click “Open” to get the output videos. Create a project and start Sony PMW-400 editing XAVC videos in FCP 7 with light speed.

Source: http://digitalmediasolution.altervista.org/blog/import-sony-pmw-400-xavc-to-fcp-7/

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