In order to edit Panasonic AG-HPX300 MXF clips in Apple Aperture 3 smoothly without codec problems,, you can follow this post to laern the best and easy way.
Panasonic AG-HPX300 is a 1/3″ CMOS camera featuring full resolution 1920×1080 chips. The camera’s ENG frame comes equipped with a Fujinon 17x lens, making it the most affordable full-sized shoulder mounted camera available. The HPX300 has a feature-set including timecode, genlock and HD-SDI, which is usually found only on more expensive cameras. More importantly, the HPX300 can record Panasonic’s premiererecording format, AVC-Intra. When shooting in AVC-Intra mode the camera has the ability to shoot full-raster 1080p footage at 10-bit 4:2:2 color, something unheard of at this price-point.
The HD Camcorder shoots recordings in MXF file format. After make some footage on the Panasonic AJ-HPX3700, you may find your Apple Aperture 3 can't support Panasonic AJ-HPX3700 footages well. Then you have to look for the easy and fast workaround for editing Panasonic AJ-HPX3700 MXF files in Aperture 3 on Mac OS X Lion.
After google search, I find Pavtube MXF Converter for Mac which is the best professional MXF Converter for Mac software tool to make the Panasonic AJ-HPX3700 videos compatible to le Aperture 3. It would Convert Panasonic AJ-HPX 300 P2 .mxf files to Apple Aperture best supported video formats, such as Apple ProRes codec MOV, so that I can import onic AJ-HPX3700 MXF to Aperture 3 smoothly, then you can edit the AJ-HPX3700 video in Apple Aperture without any crashing problem ank keep the original quality.
Now, you can follow the easy step by step tutorial, you will get to know how to convert Panasonic HPX300 MXF to Aperture 3 on Mac OS X Lion by yourself.
Step 1: Download Pavtube Mac MXF to Aperture Converter and import your HPX300 .mxf file.
Step 2: Click format column and choose the output format. You are recommended to choose Final Cut Pro -> Apple ProRes 422 (*.mov), it's great for editing in Apple Aperture.
Step 3: Click settings button to adjust the output video's parameters, such as bitrate, resolution, etc.
Step 4: Start converting Panasonic AJ-HPX3700 1080p MXF videos to ProRes codec for Apple Aperture 3.
After converting, you can load Panasonic AJ-HPX3700 footage to Apple Aperture for editing as you want, now you can have a try. Good luck!
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