Tuesday, January 5, 2016

Working with Canon XC10 4K MXF file in Avid Media Composer

Summary: This tutorial mainly teach you how to import Canon XC10 4K MXF footage into Avid Media Composer for further editing without hassle.


Deliver stunning 4K and Full HD videos, the Canon XC10 has attracted lots of users' attention. From Canon new camrea spec, we find it uses XF-AVC movie recording format, employs the MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 video compression format, and packages video in the widely supported MXF wrapper. However, when you want to have a project with the 4K MXF recordings from Canon XC10 in Avid Media Composer, some problems would occur: missing codec, looped audio, etc. If you are really want to edit Canon XC10 4K MXF in Avid Media Composer smoothly, read on this passage to learn more details.

The basic reason is that MXF is a self-container format; it is not an ideal editing format for NLE system including Avid Media Composer. To help XC10 owners get rid of this trouble, I will show you the easiest and quickest way to convert Canon XC10 MXF files to DNxHD for editing in Avid Media Composer smoothly. In order to finish the task, here I strongly recommend you try Brorsoft MXF video converter for Mac.

After applying it, you can effortlessly transcode Canon MXF files to Avid Media Composer highly compatible DNxHD encoded MOV from XC10 as well as C500, C300, XF305, XF100, XF300... without quality loss. It can generates best editing format/codec for filmmakers and video enthusiasts to use in different NLE apps, such as Avid Media Composer 5/5.5/6/6.5/7, Adobe Premiere Pro CS4/CS5/CS6/CC7, Adobe After Effects, iMovie, Final Cut Express, Final Cut Pro 6/7/X, and more. If you're using a Windows PC, please turn to the Windows version, which has the same function as the Mac program.

Converting Canon XC10 MXF files to Avid Media Composer 5/5.5/6/6.5/7

Step 1. Add Canon MXF footage to the Canon MXF Converter.

Run the top-rated MXF to MOV Converter. Click "Add" to load the source Canon MXF files. When the Canon MXF files are loaded to the MXF Converter, you can view the videos from the Preview window.



Step 2. Set Avid DNxHD MOV as output format.

Click on "Format", and select output format from the drop-down list. Follow "Avid Media Composer" > Avid DHxHD (*.mov)".



Step 3. Adjust video resolution, bit rate, frame rate, etc.

Click "Settings" button if you'd like to customize advanced audio and video parameters like Video Codec, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, Audio codec, sample rate, audio channels.



Step 4: Start converting MXF to Avid MC

Click "Convert" button and the Canon XC10 MXF files will be converted to Avid DNxHD MOV immediately. Soon after the conversion, just click "Open" button to get the generated files for edit in Avid Media Composer perfectly.



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