The PXW-Z150 comes with a 29-348mm built in lens that offers a 12x optical zoom which is further augmented by Sony’s proprietary Clear Image Zoom technology. This means that the 12x optical magnification is further extended to 24x in HD and to 18x in 4K ultra HD. 4K recording in the new PXW-Z150 is delivered in the XAVC Long codec at a max bitrate of 100Mbps. After recording some stunning footage, most users perhaps want to edit those amazing 4K clips on Final Cut Pro - the most wonderful editing software on Mac before sharing with friends. While the result might lets you down:
"Hi! I was told the Sony PXW-Z150 footage can natively ingest into Final Cut Pro. But my footage is crashing every time I try to import. Any ideas?"
Actually, Sony itself has provided plug-ins like XAVC/XDCAM Plug-in for Apple (PDZK-LT2) to enable Final Cut Pro X 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-Z150 XAVC to Final Cut Pro 7 or its eariler version, it won’t work. In addition, handling 4K videos in FCP is usually extremely hardware intensive, in particular on a older computer. To solve all those problems, the easy and quick workaround is to convert and compress Sony 4K XAVC to ProRes.mov, which ensures the maximum editing efficiency and quality when working with FCP 7/X.
Different from 720p/1080p videos, the conversion of 4K video is in a higher standard, a professional 4K Video Converter is what you need. Featured with the most advanced converting technology, Brorsoft 4K Video Converter for Mac is the optimal choice for you. It allows you to convert Sony XAVC to Apple ProRes 422, ProRes 4444 with zero quality loss on Mac(Yosemite, El Capitan included). Plus, it also supports transcoding Sony XDCAM, XDCAM HD, XDCAM EX to AIC .mov for iMovie, DNxHD for Avid Media Composer, MPEG-2 for Adobe Premiere Pro. Now I will show you how to transcode Sony PXW-Z150 4K XAVC to ProRes MOV for Final Cut Pro X/7 in detail.
(Note: Click here for OS X 10.5)Converting Sony PXW-Z150 XAVC for Editing in Final Cut Pro 7
Step 1: Import XAVC videos
Install and run the XAVC Video Converter on your Mac, then run it. Click on “Add”, and browse your files; select all the XAVC files you wanna convert. If you want to combine all the files together for easy importing to FCP, please tick the box “Merge into one” on the main interface.
Step 2: Click on Format, and from the dropdown menu, here I recommend Final Cut Pro > Apple ProRes 422 (*.mov) as the output format. Then you can set the output folder as you want.
Step 3: Adjust video, audio settings
Click the “Settings” button and customize proper video/audio parameters including Video size, bitrate and fame rate and mroe. Usually 1920*1080 video size and 30fps video frame rate are recommended for FCP editing. Well, if you prefer to work with 4K video, you can adjust video size to get 4K ProRes for FCP.
Step 4: Start XAVC to ProRes conversion
After all necessary settings, hit the convert button to start converting XAVC video to ProRes for FCP 7 on Mac OS X.
Once the conversion process shows in 100%, click Open to get the output videos. Create a project and start editing Sony PXW-Z150 XAVC files in Final Cut Pro 7 with light speed.
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