Canon XC10 4K camcorder has come to people's view on April, 2015, but it will available in market on June, 2015, which really outstanding and attract videographers' attention. Especially for the new XF-AVC format which developed by Canon for supporting greater workflow efficiency and convenience during the production process for high-image-quality video. But you may ask, any solution to make XC10 MXF editable in Premiere Pro series products or other NLEs, since this new format is not very friendly to many editing software?
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Here is a table of the XF-AVC specifications:
Resolution |
Bitrate |
Color Sample |
Intra Frame2/Long GOP3 |
File format |
Compression format |
|
4K |
4096*2160 |
10 bit | 4:2:2 |
Intra Frame |
MXF | MPEG-4 AVCH/H.264 |
3840*2160 |
8 bit | |||||
2K/HD |
2840*1080 |
12 bit |
4:4:4 |
Intra Frame/Long GOP |
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1920*1080 |
10 bit | 4:2:2 |
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| 8 bit | 4:2:0 |
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1080*720 |
8 bit | 4:2:2 |
Companies and products supporting XF-AVC:
Adobe, ASSIMILATE, Autodesk, Avid, Blackmagic Design, Codex, Colorfront, FilmLight, Final Cut Pro X, Grass Valley, IN2CORE, Pomfort GmbH,Quantel Ltd, SGO
Support native video and audio formats of Premiere Pro:
3GP, 3G2 (.3gp), Apple ProRes 64-bit, ASF, AVI (.avi), DV (.dv), DNxHD, F4V (.f4v), M1V, M2T, M2TS, M4V, MOV, MP4, MOV, MP4, MPEG, MP3, MPG, M2V, MTS, MXF, Native MJPEGs, VOB, WMV
For detailed format including still image, audio format, project file formats, etc, you can refer to Adobe Premiere Pro format page.
From here, we can clearly see that import XC10 MXF to Premiere Pro can't be realized. So, in order to make things up, here you will need this Pavtube MXF Converter for Mac(best Mac MXF Converter Review) as the best solution to deal with XC10 MXF to Premiere Pro problem.
How to turn XC10 MXF editable in Premiere Pro on Mac?
Step 1. Launch this app on your Mac
Free download this app on your Mac , even on the Yosemite, this converter will run as smoothly as it should. After successfully installing it, launch this app and click "File">"Add Video/Audio" to load your XC10 MXF files. You can highlight clips to preview.
Tips:
If you happen to find that there is no audio shows when you preview your clips, you can click "Properties" to adjust "Audio Stream ID" to have a try.
Step 2. Choose "MPEG-2 (*.mpeg)" for the best format to import XC10 MXF in Premiere Pro
If you just start with your Premiere Pro, you can refer to the presets for it. Click the Format bar and then go to "Adobe Premiere Pro/Sony V...">"MPEG-2 (*.mpeg)" as the most suitable format for editing XC10 MXF in Premiere Pro
Step 3. Adjust A/V parameters if you need
Some users use this XC10 camcorder to shoot 4K, 2K footages which may find that the default setting of this MPEG-2 is not such high in Size (pix). To tackle that, import 3840*2160 (4K), 2048*1080 (2K) in the following box of Size (pix) manually so that you can maintain the 4K, 2K quality.
Tips:
If you wonder the file size, codec thing about your generated files, you can check those detailed information in the below table.
Step 4. Start to convert XC10 MXF to Premiere Pro as MPEG-2
After setting the file location, then back to the main UI and click this "Convert" button to start your conversion. The conversion speed depends on the file size and your equipment performance, etc. If you happen to forget to set the file location, you can still locate them in the default place.
For newbie who just start to use Adobe Premiere Pro products, here you can refer to this guide to begin with.
