Monday, December 14, 2015

How Should I Play and Edit Sony Alpha 7S II 4K video on HP 4K laptop

It didn’t take long for the newly formed HP Inc. to release its first product, the ZBook Studio, a feature-packed, 15.6-inch laptop with a 4K screen.

The ZBook Studio is 18 millimeters thick and weighs 1.99 kilograms (4.6 pounds). It can be configured with Nvidia Quadro graphics cards, which are more for professional graphics and engineering applications.

The laptop has up to 2TB storage capacity, but HP is selling a separate dock with a Thunderbolt 3 port, which will make it easy to add external storage drives.

A 4K screen can be included in HP’s ZBook 15 and 17 laptops, which have 15.6-inch and 17.3-inch screens, respectively. The ZBook 15 has up to 3TB of storage, while the ZBook 17 offers up to 4TB of storage.



For Sony Alpha 7S II users, it is can not be a better news for them to enjoy the the 4K video on the 4k display. However, the Alpha 7S II record video in XAVC-S MXF files, it can be play in some of the media player, some others may be import failed.

It is essential for you to know the video format compatible with the device on which you want to play the recorded 4K XAVC-S MXF videos shot by Sony Alpha 7S II. Video formats for common devices are MP4, FLV, SWF, MOV, AVI, WMV, M4V, MPG and you can take advantage to rip 4K XAVC-S MXF recordings to MP4/FLV/SWF/MOV/AVI/WMV/M4V/MPG.Pavtube HD Video Converter / Mac Version will handle this work smoothly.

How about XAVC-S MXF files to open them natively in NLE on HP 4K laptop?

Since there are so many NLE in the market , let’s take this FCP for example. You may say that with the latest FCP, this MXF format can be supported without any rewrapping. But with this XAVC codec, it may still cause some problem when you import them into FCP. The best way to tackle this kind of problem is to find yourself a XAVC Converter and then convert to the native format like Appple ProRes HQ .

See detailed workflow of this conversion below:

1.Load your Sony XAVC files:

Download this Pavtube HD Video Converter for Mac and install it step by step. Then load your XAVC MXF files into this software by clicking “File”>”Add Video/Audio” or “Add from folder”.



2. Choose suitable ones individually for NELs:

After importing them into this program, it’s time to select suitable output ones for different non-linear editing tools. Let me show you some examples below:

a:Come to the output list, let’s choose the ‘Final Cut Pro’ to select the ‘Apple ProRes Codec 422(*.mov) as the best . Additionally, you can also choose several ProRes codec as your favorite.



b: For Avid Media Composer: Drop down the output list, we suggest you to choose the ‘Avid Media Composer’>>’DNxHD mov’ as the best outputone.

C: while for iMovie and FCE,  here we have offered the ‘iMovie/Final Cut Express’>>’Apple InterMediate Codec (AIC) (*.mov)’ there. Do you wanna a try?

Expand Knowledge:
NLE is an acronym, it stands for non-linear editing system. This is a video or audio editing digital audio workstation system. No –linear editing is the most natural approach when all assets are available as files on video servers or hard disks. Rather than recordings on reels or tapes, while linear editing is what kind of system that need to sequentially view film or hear tape.

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