Convert MXF files to QuickTime MOV for playing on your Mac

In this article, you can learn the easy way to convert recorded MXF files to QuickTime MOV, and it will help you solve the playback issues with MXF and QuickTime Player on Mac.

 

QuickTime is a multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc., capable of handling various formats of digital video, picture, sound, panoramic images, and interactivity. As an excellent movie player, it is widely used by most of Mac users. But according to users' feedback, they usually have trouble with locating the Quicktime files once openning the MXF files.

What's the reason? As we know, MXF clips comes from like Panasonic HVX200/HPX300, Canon XF300/XF305, Sony EX camera, etc. It is not compatible with media players just like Apple QuickTime. So to get QuickTime Player natively accept MXF files, converting MXF file to Quicktime mov video is a necessary step if you want watch your MXF video on Mac with QuickTime Player.

Ane then what you need is a professional MXF to MOV Converter for Mac. Here I suppose you to use the top MXF Converter for Mac from Pavtube, it is just designed to convert MXF files to QT best supported MOV format so that you can freely enjoy MXF files with QuickTime on Mac.

Overall, this MXF to QuickTime Converter is very easy to use and can do MXF to MOV conversion fastly with preserving the original video quality perfectly. Just download this powerful Mac MXF to QuickTime Converter, and follow the guide as below.

Step by step guide to help you convert MXF file to QuickTime .mov for playing on Mac

Step 1:Add mxf file into Mac MXF to MOV Converter

Install and run the program, click "Add" or "Add from folder" button to load your MXF video clips. You are allowed to add multiple files to convert at a time.

Step 2:Set Output format for QuickTime.

Click on the dropdown list of "Format" and select "Common Video -> MOV – QuickTime (*.mov)" as target format. This format is specially designed for QuickTime playback.

Step 3.Adjust video and audio parameters. (Optional)

Click "Settings" button to customize the output video and audio settings by yourself. You can also use the default parameters, they will ensure you a good balance between file size and image quality basically.




Step 4:Start Conversion

Click the "Convert" button to convert mxf file to QuickTime .mov on Mac.

After a few seconds or minutes (according to the length of source MXF file), you can finish the MXF to QuickTime Conversion. In this way, you can freely enjoy the output MOV file with QuickTime Player on Mac. Also you can edit the MOV file with Final Cut Pro.

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Convert Canon XF305 MXF file to MOV for playback with QuickTime on Mac

Follow this article you will know the easiest and fastest method to convert Canon XF305 MXF to QuickTime MOV on Mac for watching freely.

Speaking of the professional camcorder, how can we ever miss the fantastic Canon XF305 Camcorder, which represents Canon's entry into professional solid state video acquisition. Following on the heels of its widely respected XH line of tape-based camcorders, XF305 takes advantage of the latest HD technology–along with Canon's newly developed MPEG-2 4:2:2 codec–to record Full HD video to widely available Compact Flash cards.

However, users of these camcorders may always come across video formats compatible problems. Canon XF305 record videos in .MXF format which are not compatible with most of the media players on Mac like QuickTime, which is a multimedia framework released by Apple.

So how to make QuickTime to accept Canon XF305 MXF files? The easy way is convert MXF to Quicktime supported video formats like MOV, etc. At this time, you need a software applicationwhich called Pavtube MXF Converter for Mac to help you convert Canon XF305 MXF to Quicktime mov on Mac. 

Just in few steps, you can finish the MXF to QuickTime conversion.  If you want to edit your MXF files, the MXF to Quicktime MOV Converter Mac is your best choice. You can crop videos, add watermark, trim videos, merge videos. What's more, you can convert Canon XF305 MXF files to other friendly video formats like MP3, AVI, WMV, FLV, MPG, 3GP etc on Mac. The following guides shows you how to convert Canon XF305 MXF to Quicktime MOV for playback on Mac. 

Steps: Convert  Canon XF305  MXF to MOV for playing with QuickTime on Mac 

1.Download, install and launch Pavtube MXF to QuickTime Converter for Mac.

Once launched the program, click "Add" or "Add from folder" button to load your Canon XF305 MXF clips. You are allowed to add multiple files to convert at a time.




2.Select output format.

Click on the dropdown menu of "Format" and select "Common Video -> MOV – QuickTime (*.mov)" as target format. This format is specially designed for QuickTime playback. You can also choose format as you need in the format column, such as AVI, MKV, MP4, etc.

3.Adjust video and audio parameters.

Click "Settings" button to customize the output video and audio settings by yourself. You can also use the default parameters, they will ensure you a good balance between file size and image quality basically. You can change the resolution, bitrate, frame rate as you need.




4.Click convert button to start to convert Canon XF305 MXF file to QuickTime MOV on Mac with this best Mac MXF Converter.

After you converting Canon XF305 MXF files to MOV for QuickTime, you can enjoy and play the converted footages smoothly on Mac with QuickTime Player. 

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