Guides On How To Import And Edit Sony Pmw-f5/f55 Xavc In Fcp 6/7 Smoothly

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The hottest HD camcorder Sony PMW-F5 and PMW-F55 are both capable of recording XAVC 16-bit linear raw to a docked Sony recorder, the AXS-R5, in both 4K and 2K, at a sustained 2.3Gbps. For most of people especially those photography enthusiasts, they will definitely never miss these outstanding camcorders with such amazing features. According to the feedback, a majority of users are very satisfied with the quality, but some users said that they have met with some difficulties while imputing the XAVC recordings from Sony PMW-F5/F55 to Final Cut Pro. Yes, how to smoothly edit PMW-f55 footage in FCP or edit Sony pmw-f5 XAVC in FCP is a tricky problem for lots of people.

As is known to us, in order to import XAVC footage smoothly, we must make sure that the directory structure of the XAVC footage is the same as it was recorded to the card. Since it is not quite convenient, the easiest and ...
... best solution is to rewrap the XAVC footage before importing. With the assistance from third-party software, like Doremisoft xavc converter mac, we can easily convert xavc to FCP for editing. Overall speaking, this converter is specially developed for Sony HD camcorders users to tanscode XAVC footage to Final Cut Pro, xavc to imovie, Adobe Premiere Pro and other editing software with least quality loss.

Below I will show you how to transcode XAVC to Apple ProRes 422 MOV—the editable file format of FCP and iMovie.

Step 1: Click "add file" to import the XAVC footages to the program.

Step 2: As shown here, we choose "Convert to" > "Final Cut Pro" > "Apple ProRes 422 MOV" as the output format

Tips: You can change the default codec, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate and audio channel freely and optimize the output file quality by using the editing function.

Step 3: Press "START" to launch the conversion.

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