Sunday, September 20, 2015

Native Editing Sony A5100 XAVC S in FCP X

If you attempt to edit Sony A5100 XAVC S files in FCP X, the following article may help you a lot in importing Sony A5100 XAVC S files to FCP X conveniently. What’s more, with the best supported video formats for FCP X, we will know about how to enjoy any format videos edit in FCP X. 

 

The newly released Sony A5100 has won lots of attractions from videographers. The camcorder has an extremely efficient recording codec XAVC S, allowing for bit rates of 50Mbps. It also has the ability to simultaneously record 720p video while recording at higher resolutions. While, there are a few issues when it comes to viewing, loading and editing Sony A5100 XAVC S files in non-linear editing software like Final Cut Pro X. Now some tips and tricks for Sony A5100 XAVC S to FCP X best workflow are listed below. 

As you can see above, the Sony A5100 can record videos in XAVC S, AVCHD and MP4 formats, all of them are not native formats for Final Cut Pro editing. As far as I know the latest high definition XAVC/XAVC S video format introduced by Sony is still not supported well by FCP X/7/6. From Apple FCP official page you will get the info that Apple ProRes codec is the native codec for FCP X, once you convert video to Apple ProRes codec you can import the video to FCP X for editing smoothly, and you don’t need to render anymore. 

To achieve our goal, the quickest and easiest way is to use the easy-to-use yet professional software called Pavtube HD Video Converter for Mac, with which we can effortlessly and flawlessly transcode Sony XAVC S footage to ProRes MOV for FCP X. It is safe to install and easy to use. Below I will show you how to convert Sony A5100 XAVC S footage to ProRes MOV for FCP X in details. 

  

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- Cnet Download: http://download.cnet.com/Pavtube-HD-Video-Converter/3000-2194_4-76177786.html 


A step-by-step guide for you to learn how to edit Sony A5100 XAVC S files in FCP X: 

Step 1: Launch the Sony A5100 XAVC S Video Converter on your Mac, and then click the "Add video" button to import your XAVC S videos from Sony A5100 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. Here, we suggest you to choose Apple ProRes 422 .mov as the best output format. 

 

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 A5100 XAVC S files in FCP X easily. 

Step 4: Now, click "Convert" button and let it go. The Sony A5100 XAVC S Video Converter for Mac supports batch conversion. So if you have lots of XAVC S 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 A5100 editing XAVC S files in FCP X with light speed. 

Further Reading: 
Source: http://handycameratips.jimdo.com/2015/04/13/edit-xavc-s-in-fcp-x/

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