Solve Canon XF300 MXF files to FCP X Importing problems

Sumarry: How to successfully Import and edit Canon XF300 MXF videos in Final Cut Pro X on Mac Mountain Lion

Are you a Canon XF300 user? Are you looking for the way to bring MXF videos from XF300 to Final Cut Pro X after you installed the Mac OS X Mountain Lion? If so, you should found that many threads seem to point to needing a converter for these files before FCP X will read them. As Apple Inc.’s desktop and server operating system for Macintosh computers, OS X Mountain Lion (version 10.8) is the ninth major release of OS X. It’s quick, familiar, cheap, and drenched in iOS goodness. However, after updated and installed Mountain Lion on Mac, many Final Cut Pro (mainly FCP X and FCP 7) users found they could not import Canon MXF files into FCP.

In fact, I met the similar trouble. When I try importing my footage directly from the camera in the File/Import/Media... screen, FCP X tells me:
"No Importable Files"
"None of the selected files or folders can be imported."
I met the error after I upgraded my Mac OS X to Mountain Lion v10.8.2. Then I went to Google and search the answer to solve the problem. At the start, I used Brosoft MXF Converter for Mac to transcode MXF to ProRes 422(The tool has five types of Apple ProRes Codecs for choosing). The conversion is fast and I can get the video with original quality for further editing. It also can help me reformat Panasonic, Sony MXF to any video format as I want. The most important is that The changed format ProRes 422 MOV is FCP's native format, I can directly drag and drop it to FCP without rendering.



However, if we use the convert tool, we won't get MXF videos to natively edit with FCP X. Some time later, Canon company released XF300 software compatible with OS 10.8 (Mountain Lion). We called it Canon XF Utility. After install the software, you can back up XF300 MXF footages to it and transfer the videos to Log and Transfer Windows. Then please choose ProRes or natvie format as the editing format. The process will take you some rendering time.



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How to Take Canon EOS C500 MXF footages into FCE

Can't take Canon EOS C500 MXF footages into FCE for further editing

Have you met some incompatible problems with EOS C500 MXF videos in FCE 4? The EOS C500 is a professional video camera. The designs come from EOS C300, but it is better than C300. It can capture Raw 4K video footage and offers frame rates of up to 120fps in compressed 4K. It also captures 2K footage (2,048 x 1,080 pixels) at 12-bit, with 4:4:4 Y'CbCr chroma sub-sampling for high colour resolution.

The HD videos are compatible with FCP, but are not editble for FCE. To get the best playback, some FCE users are likely try to import the HD quality to Final Cut Express 4 for further editing. But they won't successfully do the importing. We have to convert the MXF footages to a compatible for for editing with FCE. AIC(Apple Intermediate Codec) will be the best fotmat for converting. AIC is a high-quality 8-bit 4:2:0 video codec used mainly as a less processor-intensive way of working with long-GOP MPEG-2 footage such as HDV.

Aftering searching and comparisons, I found brorsoft MXF to FCE Converter would be your best choice. First, like other products, the software can transcode MXF to any file format. Secondly, it has the tool allows you freely change the video and audio settings to get the best quality for editing and playing. Next, it also can be worked as a powerful video editor, which can merge several files into one single and trim or crop videos. Last, it has been used for many people, I have searched many good reviews about the tool. I believe you will be satisfied with the fast conversion and HD quality.



Step 1. Connect your cam or CF card to your Mac. And launch the MXF Converter to load file to it.

Tip: You also can check "Merge into one" icon to batch convert several MXF clips.

Step 2. Choose the AIC MOV as the best ouput format from "iMovie/Final Cut Expree" menu.

Step 3. Click "settings" to set the video size, frame rate, bitrate, ect as you like, you'd better set the parameters as the below picture.



Step 4. Start reformating Canon C500 MXF to AIC for your Mac editors.

As long as the conversion is over, please click "completed" and "open" to find your converted file. Thus you can easiy transfer it to your FCE.

Tip: The convert tool also can help you transcode MXF videos from Panasonic/Sony to a comfortable format for FCP, FCE, iMovie, Adobe, Avid, ect NLE's.

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