However, the XF305 camera recorded .mxf files may have made many users get into incampatibe troubles. For example "I'm in the process of purchasing a Canon XF305 Professional camcorder which uses MXF format files. I am using Apple Final Cut Pro X with Lion operating system. Is there a tool which can help me when ingesting MXF footages to Final Cut Pro X. Thank you very much."
As we all know the MXF with MPEG-2 codec is not a good editing format for Mac softwares, like FCP X. Some users often meet the similar trouble duto its Mac system and other codecs issues. To successfully import XF305 MXF recordings to FCP X, you need a third party software to transcode MPEG-2 MXF to Apple ProRes format, FCP'S native format. From Google searching, you will find Brorsoft MXF Converter is the best tool for using.
Step 1: Launch the MXF Converter for FCP X on Mac, connect Canon XF305 to Mac and take the mxf files from CF cards to it.
PS: You can click Edit button and you can deinterlace 1080i MXF files via checking off the Deinterlacing box in the Video Editor.
Step 2: Click on Format bar and move your mouse to Final Cut Pro, in the list, you will see several ProRes Codecs for FCP, you can choose one according to you need.
Step 3: Click Setting and set 30fps as Frame Rate and 1920*1080 as Video Size to get the best effect when you edit Canon MXF footages in FCP X.
Tips: If your original file format is 1080 50i, you need to set 25fps(or 29.97fps) as Frame Rate.
Step 4: Click the "conversion" button and the tool will work at once, and you will see the MXF to FCP video format conversion process in the surface.
As soon as the shows in 100%, it means the conversion is over, click "completed" and "open" to get the converted video. Now you can smooyhly put it to FCP X for further editing without any trouble. Have a good time on editing and playing HD movies. And happy new year!
See also:
How to Take Canon EOS C500 MXF footages into FCE
