The Sony Movie Studio Platinum 12 won't import P2 MXF files from Panasonic AG-HPX171E. The easy workaround is to transcode MXF to Movie Studio friendly format.
Sony Movie Studio Platinum 12 is a powerful 64-bit video editor at a reasonable price. Among consumer-level video-editin applications, it is one of the most capable, offering more features than most of its competitors do. Even with a user-friendly interface, Sony's Movie Studio Platinum offers many features customizable options. However, users find it's difficult to import P2 MXF clips from HPX171E to Movie Studio.
My camera is 171e-Panasonic (p2 cards). Actually I am new one in all this story about video .I have a material and before I start to make editing in Movie Studio Platinum 12.00 (sony) and I would like to give to my friend to have “first look" on my computer or TV. I ask some friends and they told me to make P2 MXF to MPEG-2 conversion. What i can do? Thank you.
In fact, MXF is a self-container format which is unacceptable by various non-linear editing systems (NLE), like Pinnacle Studio, Sony Vegas, Avid Media Composer, Premiere, Movie Studio Platinum 12 etc. So to import the MXF files from Panasonic AG-HPX171E P2 camera to Movie Studio Platinum 12 for editing, the easy workaround is to transcode MXF files to Movie Studio compatible video formats.
For converting Panasonic AG-HPX171E MXF video into Movie Studio editing friendly format, the best recommendation is Pavtube MXF Converter. This is a smart tool specially designed for MXF users to preview and convert MXF recordings to your wanted video and audio formats, so as to smoothly add them into Movie Studio Platinum 12, Sony Vegas, Adobe Premiere, Windows Movie Maker, Magix Movie Edit Pro, Ulead DVD MovieFactory, Pinnacle Studio and more other video editing software to do further editing. It naturally support converting MXF recordings shot by a Panasonic P2 camcorders and Canon XF camcorders.
To help those who wanna edit Panasonic AG-HPX171E MXF files in Movie Studio Platinum 12 without problems, here I share with you a simple guide on how to convert MXF files from HPX171E to edit in Movie Studio Platinum 12.
Part I: Transcode AG-HPX171E MXF to MPEG-2 – native editing format for Movie Studio Platinum 12
1. Backup Panasonic AG-HPX171E camcorder MXF videos from P2 HD card to local HDD with full P2 directory preserved, as both the video and audio are saved separately as .mxf files.
Notes: If your are a P2 MXF camcorder user, you will find from the P2 MXF recording, video audio files are separated in different folders. Also, it’s no difficult to find one video will have four audio tracks. For archiving, you need to keep the whole structure of video and audio.
2. Run Pavtube MXF Converter. Click "Add Video" or "Add from folder" icon to load MXF files from AG-HPX171E.
3. Choose "MPEG-2 (*.mpg)" as target format from "Adobe Premiere/Sony Vegas" option.
4. Click "Settings" button and enter "Profile Settings" panel to adjust video and audio settings if necessary. Users are free to reset codec, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, and audio channels.
5. Click the big button "Convert" to start Converting AG-HPX171E to MPEG-2 for Sony Movie Studio Platinum 12.
6. Locate converted P2 recordings (in .mpg format) by clicking on "Open" button.
Part 2: Import converted .MPG to Movie Studio Platinum 12 for editing.
Now your Panasonic AG-HPX171E .MXF footage are converted into Movie Studio Platinum 12 natively supported format. Launch Movie Studio Platinum 12, and follow "Import" > "IMPORT FROM" > "Other devices" > "the folder stored the converted .mpg files" > "Start Import" to get P2 footage into Movie Studio Platinum 12.
Personally I am very pleased with the product. As I have only used the product a few times so far it is difficult to give any constructive comments at this stage but all my conversions were done successfully with stunning image quality – I can hardly tell any quality difference.
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