Convert Sony PXW-FS7 4K XAVC to ProRes for FCP

Having issues when import and edit Sony PXW-FS7 4K XAVC footage in Final Cut Pro 6/7/X? Looking for some tips regarding Sony PXW-FS7 4K XAVC workflow in FCP? You are in the right place. In this page, I will share an efficient way to edit Sony FS7 XAVC files in FCP.



The newly released Sony PXW-FS7 has won lots of attractions from videographers in that it delivers long-form recording capabilities with 4K resolution in a compact, hand-held design. Videographers must be excited once they get to know that Sony PXW-FS7 can record videos into 4K. And they are eager to edit 4K videos in FCP to get some superb masterpiece to spread the world. However, it is a pity that FCP hardly supports 4K raw Sony PXW-FS7 XAVC files.
Tips: FCP supported video formats

I’m searching for a solid answer for the Sony FS7 to FCP issues. When I opened FCP on Mac, the footage from my Sony PXW-FS7 cannot be recognized. I had searched the method and tried the Log and Transfer, but still failed. An alternative way I found to get Sony FS7 XAVC to FCP flawlessly is to convert XAVC to ProRes. I’ve tried the workaround. Yes, it works.

Generally, we can use Log and Transfer or Log and Capture to import videos to FCP for editing. But the new XAVC codec is not supported well by Final Cut Pro. Since, Apple ProRes is the most compatible codec for FCP, so if we want to edit Sony FS7 XAVC in FCP, it is necessary to convert those already shot XAVC files to ProRes .mov using third-party software. Here, you can depend on Pavtube HD Video Converter for Mac. With this best 4K XAVC converter, besides FCP, it can also export DNxHD for Avid MC, MPEG-2 for Adobe Premiere Pro, AIC for iMovie and more NLEs for native editing.

                       

Tutorial on converting Sony PXW-FS7 4K XAVC to FCP:

Step 1: Launch the 4K XAVC to ProRes Converter on your Mac, and then click the “Add video” button to import your 4K XAVC files from Sony PXW-FS7 directly. In order to import several files at one time, you can click “Add from folder” button.



Step 2: Click the “Format” bar to get the drop-down menu and you can get “Final Cut Pro>>Apple ProRes codec”, including ProRes 422, ProRes 422 (HQ), ProRes 422 (LT), ProRes 422 (Proxy) and ProRes 4444. Choose the proper one you want. Here, we suggest you to choose Apple ProRes 422 .mov as the best output format.



Step 3: Press the “Settings” icon and you’d better set the video frame rate as 30fps, video size as 1920*1080 for editing Sony FS7 XAVC in FCP easily.



Step 4: Now, click "Convert" and let it go. The XAVC to FCP Converter for Mac supports batch conversion. So if you have lots of XAVC videos to convert, check “Shut down computer after conversion” and you can go away without keeping an eye on it.

Conclusion: Once the conversion process shows in 100%, click “Open” to get the output videos. Create a project and start Sony PXW-FS7 editing 4K XAVC files in Final Cut Pro with light speed.

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Play H.265/HEVC Movies on Xbox One/Xbox 360

Q: Would it be possible for Microsoft to release a software update that would give the Xbox One the capability to play HEVC videos?

4K resolution is widely predicted to be the main development trend of video resolution, which is on the way to all of us. While, High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC/H.265) is the latest video compression standard that promises to deliver visual quality equivalent to H.264/AVC with up to 50% bitrate savings. In most cases, to get higher video quality and definition for playback via Xbox One/Xbox 360.

I would love the ability of being able to play HEVC (H.265) encoded media through my Xbox One. Do you have the similar ideas? Fine, according to the Xbox’s supported formats limitation, it seems a little important to find some H.265/HEVC to Xbox converter to solve the issues, right? In some other ways, enjoy the H.265/HEVC movies on iPhone 6 is also not a bad idea! 

What a coincidence! Have you heard the old video studio Pavtube has upgraded their products to support the new H.265/HEVC codec. Also, you may not know yet this Pavtube Video Converter have the Xbox One/Xbox 360 as the output. Why we called this program as the Xbox video converter? Cause it can transcode those Xbox unsupported video formats such as MKV, FLV to Xbox for playback smoothly. Learn more steps below:

Step 1. Launch the program and open the main interface you can see some buttons also with a preview window on the right. ’Add Videos’ to import your H.265/HEVC files and take a preview on right window. You must wait a little longer if you got large files.

Step 2. Go to the format bar to select the “Zune/Xbox 360 Device”>”Xbox 360 HD Video (*.wmv)”as your output format. From H.265/HEVC to HD WMV, that’s the key to play H.265 movies on Xbox.

Step 3. Optional: Click the “Settings” beside the format bar to adjust your parameters is allow you to enjoy a better viewing quality.  Before go to the conversion, you can click this “Edit” to do some personal edits on your raw videos. This saves you from the troubles which you have to reload them to editors.

Conversion: Press the "Convert" button on the bottom-right corner of this H.265/HEVC to Xbox One Video Converter to start performing video conversion. Now, you can see the conversion progress. And the conversion speed is mainly affected by the size of files that you're converting and your computer's performance. 

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Can Sony TV Play 1080p HD MKV Movies?

According to the Sony forums online, there are some hot questions when watching our 1080p HD MKV movies on Sony TV. So are you now seeking the solutions if you also cannot get the 1080p HD MKV movies playback on Sony HDTV? Take it easy, this article will offer you some MKV to Sony TV solutions.

Though Sony TV like Bravia enables us to enjoy video files from a USB device, it has video format limitation. It only supports videos in MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MP4, WMV, ASF, DivX HD through USB. If you have a collection of movies in format like MKV, some errors may pop up on the screen. As the typical container format, MKV can be encoded by various video codec, thus it is normally cannot be suitable for NLEs like FCP, Sony Vegas or media players like Xbox One, etc. In this case, do you have any good suggestions there?

Aims to provide a simple way to successfully play 1080p HD MKV movies on Sony TV, we need to convert the HD MKV to the most compatible video format for Sony TV. Pavtube Video Converter is such a loyal converting assistant for our users. Even through you don't know what audio codec in MKV is best for Sony TV, this app can let you convert your MKV files to a full compatible format for Sony TV just with one click. Then, the entire conversion process will take you a few minutes. After that, you can watch your MKV or HD MKV on the big screen TV. Just have a try.

Step by step guide on how to play 1080p MKV movies on Sony TV:
Step 1. This programs gives you two doable ways to import your MKV files to this Sony TV video converter. Click the ‘Add videos’ or ‘Add from folder’ button to locate the target MKV files on the computer and then load them. Or, simply drag the MKV videos you want from the computer to this app.



Step 2.Since on the output list we cannot find any special items for Sony TV, we here recommend you the ‘HD Video’>>’WMV HD(*.wmv)’ for you. You can take it as the best output for Sony TV.

Step 3.You can customize the video or audio parameters based on your personal requirements. Adjust the resolution, bitrates, frame rate or codec to meet your requirement by clicking "Settings" button.



After the above steps are done, you can click "Convert" button on the main interface to convert your MKV Video to Sony TV MPEG format. Next, what we need to do is transferring the MKV files to Sony TV with USB. Enjoy yourselves.

Notes:  USB mobile hard disk or flash disk. The disk file systems should be FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, or exFAT for Sony TV acceptable. Take the advice and you won’t get more issues.

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How to Convert FLAC to iTunes on Mac (Yosemite included)?

Cause iTunes has some best supported audio formats, you may don’t know how to play your FLAC files on iTunes, right? One way might be to try and get iTunes on OS X and iOS to support FLAC through some kind of plug-in. So if have read the page below, you have my word you won’t be confused with the issues anymore.

FLAC is an open source lossless audio format. Apple chooses not to support it, as they tend to prefer their own propitiatory standards over those that are free and open-source. Such is life in the techno sphere of all things Apple. Or in some other ways, you may have the experience of playing FLAC audio movies on VLC media player or HDTV, etc. While for iTunes, any good suggestions?

If you want to import FLAC to iTunes and won't loss quality, fortunately we here have the Pavtube Video Converter for Mac for you guys, which is just the professional FLAC to iTunes Converter with high output quality and fast conversion speed.

Main Key Features of Pavtube FLAC to iTunes Converter you may not know well:

• As a audio converter: convert among all kinds of audio formats such as MP3, WAV, AIFF, AAC, FLAC, AC3, AU, MP2, OGG, DTS, M4A, WMA, RA and Apple LossLess M4A, FLAC and WAV, etc;
• As a video extractor: extract audios from various of video such as MP4, AVI, WMV, MKV, OGV, ASF, MOV, RM, MPEG, DV, etc;
• As a audio editor: cut, adjust volume/bitrate/sample rate of audio, merge files into one, split files by chapter, etc;
• As a audio player: support playing nearly all audio formats like AIFF, AAC, FLAC, AC3, AU, MP2, MP3, WAV, OGG, DTS, M4A, WMA, RA and Apple LossLess M4A, FLAC and WAV, etc;

Let’s start to convert FLAC files to iTunes:
Step 1. Add your FLAC files to the program: simply drag and drop FLAC files to the main interface of Pavtube FLAC to iTunes Converter; click "Add File" button to open FLAC files that you want to convert.

Step 2. Select MP3 or ALAC as the output format. Click "Profile" drop-down button to set "Common Audio’>>’MP3 MPEG Layer-3 Audio (*.mp3)" as the suitable output.

Step 3. Go back to the main interface if you have done all the preparation work. Hit the ‘Convert’ button to get our job started. The process will take you some time, which mainly depends on the size of all imported FLAC files and the performance of your Mac computer. Now, you can really play FLAC in iTunes on Mac. Just drag and drop the output files (.mp3 files) from the output folder to iTunes music library.

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Let’s Transfer H.265 video to iTunes on PC

H.265(HEVC) codec, as a new codec technology and new video compression standard compared to H264 has thehigher quality and smaller size which can be the most import point loved by all video lovers. While as the specialty of this new codec, H.265 has not been available for iTunes yet so we still need some tools to ask for help. That’s the main purpose of this article.

Just few camcorders can shoot the H.265/HEVC recordings, Samsung NX1 is the typical one as you know. If you have recorded some H.265 video from NX1, add H.265 video to iTunes for syncing and playback on Apple devices for killing time on the move is a wise choice. However, no mater by dragging and dropping or by selecting Add File to Libray... from iTunes menu, iTunes won't import H.265 video since iTunes have no ability of playing HEVC/H.265 format cause iTunes has its’ own best supported video formats as we all know.

Well Preparation: H.265 to iTunes converter---Pavtube Video Converter for Windows
It’s the one of the firsts to provide an H.265 to iTunes easy and fast solution on windows and it ranks top on the H.265 converter application list. It is an all-in-one H.265 decoder, encoder, converter and player. Among the top ranked H.265 video converters, it has a good reputation online so it is deserved for us to have a try. 

How to convert H.265 to play in iTunes with ease?
Step 1.Install and run H.265 to iTunes converter, and then click the "Add" button to load the .H.265 videos. You can also use the drag-and-drop method to load the media files to the application UI.

Step 2. Since iTunes supports MP4, M4V and MOV formats, you can click Format bar and choose any of the three from Common Video as the output file format. If you want to load H.265 to iTunes for playing on iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV, you can also directly select a format from decent device preset like iPad. Just take the following screen shot as the reference.

Tips: Click the ‘Settings’ icon to adjust video and audio parameters on the Profile Setting as you need to get the best quality video.

Step 3. Click the "Convert" icon under the preview window, and the H.265 Converter will start converting H.265 to iTunes on Windows 8/8.1/10. As soon as you transfer your files into iTunes, it’s our time to enjoy the higher definition movies on Apple devices!

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Canon PowerShot G7 X MP4 to DaVinci Resolve 9, iPhoto, Kdenlive, Keynote?

Once you get some H.264 MP4 reordings from Canon PowerShot G7 camera, have you ever tried to further edit them in some editing tools such like DaVinci Resolve 9, iPhoto, Kdenlive and Keynote, etc? Here in order to smoothly help you import G7 MP4 files in these editing tools for editing, we can give you some better solutions.

The PowerShot G7 X is a premium high-performance camera that puts exciting and impressive capabilities in a sophisticated, compact package. PowerShot G7 X is selfie-ready with a high-resolution multi-angle capacitive 3.0-inch touch panel LCD. So in this way, if you recorded many MP4 videos via Canon G7 X, you may want to edit Canon PowerShot G7 X 1080p MP4 videos, right? But the questio is how? 

After searching online, we know these several editing programs thouth cannot support the MP4 formats, they can accept the MOV well. Now, what we need to do is converting MP4 to MOV. Also, we have found the best Pavtube Video Converter for Mac can do us a big favor. Not only for MP4, but also for other high definition video formats such like MXF in DaVinci Resolve? Join us to know more lessons of how to work it well with MP4 files.

Step 1. Import Canon G7 X Video clips 
Install and run this professional MP4 Video Converter for Mac as a Canon PowerShot G7 X Video Converter, Click 'Add File' to load your Canon G7 X footages for converting.



Step 2.Choose the suitable MOV as output 
Just come to the output list, here we are going to suggest you to choose the ‘HD Video’>>’H.264 HD Video (*mov); as the best suitable one. 



Step 3. What is differs from other similar converting programs, we can also find the ‘Merge into one file’ to combine our files together. You can take the following screenshot as the good reference.



At the end of this conversion, we need to go back to the main interface to tap the ‘Convert’ button to start our work. With such easy and fast workflow, are you still worrying about how to edit your Canon PowerShot G7 X MP4 in DaVinci Resolve 9, iPhoto, Kdenlive, Keynote? Let’s move on!

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Workflow on Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF7 AVCHD to Final Cut Pro 6/7

Hi guys, if you are puzzeled with the problem that you can't edit your MTS footage from Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF7 in Final Cut Pro 6/7, why not read this article below carefully to make some more details? In order to resolve the problems, we are going to offer you the best way of converting AVCHD to ProRes mov for nice ediitng.

More details that we didn’t know yet about the Final Cut Pro, right? For example, fo you know any supported video formats for FCP? In other words, that may become the main cause that we should know well why AVCHD codec cannot be suitable with FCP. After that, we can be told the ProRes codec 422 has become the most compatible one for FCP. In this way, though for other high definiton codec such as XAVC or even the container format MKV, we may got some issues.

As long as the editing problems we may meet, here we also have the good solutions to solve the questions. PavtubeMTS/M2TS Converter for Mac comes out to achieve your goal smoothly. This Mac MTS converter features full support for almost all Canon, Sony and Panasonic AVCHD cameras, and it converts MTS files to editable format for using in Final Cut Pro. Below is a simple guide to follow for transcoding Panasonic DMC-GF7 MTS to FCP on Mac OS X (Yosemite included).

Let’s solve Panasonic Lumix GF7 to FCP incompatible issues step by step:
1. Download, install and run the MTS to FCP Converter; click "Add Videos" icon to load your source .mts videos.

2. Click “Format” option and navigate the mouse cursor to choose “Format > Final Cut Pro > Apple ProRes 422 (*.mov)” as the best codec for Final Cut Pro 6/7 and FCP X. 

3. Click the “Settings” button and customize proper video/audio parameters if necessary. Video size, bitrate and fame rate can be adjusted as you like. Usually 1920*1080 video size and 30fps video frame rate are recommended for FCP editing. 

At the end of the conversion job, tap the ‘Convert’ button on the main interface and you can get the work started. Then just easily transfer output videos to FCP and you can enjoy editing our Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF7 AVCHD recordings in FCP 6/7. Let’s all have a try!

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