How to get Panasonic AG-HVX200 P2 MXF to iMovie for editing

With its AG-HVX200, Panasonic raises the bar again, bringing us professional HD versatility and quality at a lower price than ever. AG-HVX200 is a P2-based camera that answers the demands of nearly any professional videographer. It builds on the overwhelming success of the original AG-HVX200, with the addition of some much sought-after revisions. The most important new feature is an updated sensor, which yields higher sensitivity, creating less noise in low-light situations. With its compact and feature-rich frame, the AG-HVX200 will never disappoint. The unit is compatible with DVCPRO HD, DVCPRO50, DVCPRO25 and consumer DV recording standards.

Have you got the professional P2 camcorder. If so, have you tried to download MXF fotoages from P2 card to iMovie for further editing? If so, you won't find anything in iMovie because iMovie can't recognise MXF format. For example "I have P2 MXF files downloaded directly from a Panasonic P2 card onto an external hard drive. I want to edit my MXF files in iMovie '11, but frustratingly, iMovie '11 can’t ingest the MXF at all. Any solution can suggest?"

The MXF to iMovie Converter is the highly recommended for you to quickly and easily convert/transcode MXF/P2 MXF to iMovie '11 supported format here. The convert tool comes with default format for iMovie, Apple Intermediate Codec (AIC) MOV which is perfect format for iMovie 8/9/11. Below is the detailed guide on how to reformat MXF to AIC on Mac OS X.



Step 1: Install and launch the best MXF to iMovie Converter for Mac. Click the button “File” to add MXF files to it or directly drag and drop the files your MXF files. If it is necessary, you can double click the each file to have a preview.

Tips: If you have multiple HVX200 1080i MXF files, you can select the “Merge into one” box to merge the files into one single file for iMovie so that you can play these files without interruption.

Step 2: Click on the “Format” and you will get a dropdown menu. Move you pointer to iMovie and Final Cut Express > Apple Intermediate Codec(AIC) (*.mov). The Apple Intermediate Codec(AIC) is the compatible format for iMovie. Then you can set the output folder by clicking “Browse” icon as you need.

Step 3: Click the “Settings” icon and you will go into a new interface named “Profile Settings”.

Tips:
1: You’d better set the video frame rate as 30fps, video size as 1920*1080 to keep the best quality for editing in iMovie. If you want to have a smaller file size but keep the good quality, you can change the video size to 1440*1080.
2: You can customize the defaults and save them as custom conversion settings without affecting the original default selection.

Step 4: Click the “Convert” button; it will convert P2 MXF to AIC. You can find the process in the “Conversion” interface.

When the fast HVX200 MXF conversion process is 100% completed, you will be able to get the output files for iMovie by clicking on “open” button effortlessly.

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Convert MXF to ProRes- Make Sony PMW-EX1R MXF files editable for FCP

Sony's PMW-EX1R XDCAM EX HD Camcorder is the impressive successor to the popular PMW-EX1. While retaining everything that was right about the previous camera, Sony has listened to its professional users and taken several steps forward, not only improving ergonomics and convenience, but bringing a whole new set of features to the world's only full HD compact camcorder.

Product Highlights
•3 1/2"-type CMOS Sensors
•1080p, 720p, 1080i
•Native 23.98p
•Full HD 1920 x 1080
•Wide Angle 14x Fujinon Lens
•1.23MP Viewfinder
•Records to SxS Cards
•DVCAM SD Mode
•Cache Recording
•HDMI Output

Such an excellent camcorder! But when you get the rewrap clips and want to copy and Sony's PMW-EX1R Rewarapped MXF to FCP for editing, you will meet the incompatiblity problem, since the FCP can not support the .mxf video files. How to make MXF files editable with the lossless quality? In this article, we will show you the best tool- Mac MXF to ProRes Converter for you. It can convert all the .mxf files, no matter where and how you get them, to ProRes 422(HQ) with the original quality.

Step 1: Connect Sony PMW-EX1 to Mac and rewrap the mp4 files to MXF file folder. Luanch the MXF to FCP Converter for Mac and click the "File" or the related import label to add the rewarapped MXF files to it.

Tip: You shouldn’t move the single MXF video out of the whole MXF whole structure folder, or the MXF video would loss some metadata, such as sound.

Step 2: Click on the “Format” and get the dropdown menu, then move you pointer to “Final Cut Pro> Apple PreRes 422(HQ)", if you give the priority to the quality of the converted videos.

Step 3. Then click the “Settings” icon and you will go into the “Profile Settings”. You can adjust codec, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate and audio channel in the interface according to your needs and optimize the output file quality.

Tricks:
1) If the your files are 1080 60i/30fps, you’d better set the video frame rate as 30fps, video size as 1920*1080 to keep the best quality for editing in Final Cut Pro.
2) If you shoot with 50i/25fps, then 25fps as the frame rate will be your best choice when conversion.
3) If you want to have a smaller file size but keep the good quality, you can change the video size to 1440*1080 or smaller.

Step 4: Click the button for conversion and the PMW-EX1R MXF converter will strart the Sony PMW-EX1R rewrapped MXF to ProRes conversion. You can find the process in the “Conversion” interface.



After the Mac conversion, you can now easily add the PMW-EX1R MXF files to FCP 7/x and edit them by clicking on “open” button. Now, you can get rid of the worries about the incompatibility problem of MXF and FCP.