Sony Alpha a7S is amazing! Great camera, overall. I'm primarily using this camera for film, but love taking stills with it. It takes wonderful stills, so don't let a 12.2 megapixel camera fool you. The wide shots are amazing and the video quality is wonderful. The only problem I encountered was the file format. The XAVC S codec it shoots in wraps its files into MP4s. These files are extremely difficult to import into all my major film editing softwares, like Premiere Pro and After Effects.
Here comes Pavtube HD Video Converter for Mac to do so. It is the best Mac a7S XAVC-S Converter or compressor to help you edit the XAVC-S clips from a7S you shoot in Premiere Pro and After Effects without rending, you can go to download it and have a free try! Below I will outline how to convert Sony Alpha a7S XAVC-S footage to Premiere Pro and After Effects compatible format for editing on Mac.
Step 1: Copy Sony Alpha a7S media on to the Storage Drive in a folder.
Step 2: Launch the best Mac XAVC-S Video Converter. Click the "Add" button for adding to import the xavc-s files from a7S.
Step 3: Click on the dropdown menu of "Format", and then move your pointer to Adobe Premiere/Sony Vegas> MPEG-2 (*.mpg) which is the perfect video format for you to transfer Sony Alpha a7S XAVC-S to Premiere Pro and After Effects. Then you can set the output folder by clicking "Browse" icon as you prefer.
Step 4: Click "Settings" icon to adjust audio and video parameter. You can change the default codec, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate and audio channel according to your needs and optimize the output file quality.
Note: To get original(best) video quality, you can keep original video size and bitrate.
Step 5: Click the "Convert" button and it will convert Sony Alpha a7S XAVC-S files to MPG video for editing in Premiere Pro and After Effects immediately.
Step 6: Once the Mac MTS to Premiere/AE conversion is done, you will be able to get the output files for Premiere Pro and After Effects via clicking on "Open" button effortlessly.
Now you can easily import the converted mpg footage in Premiere Pro and After Effects for editing keeping high quality effortlessly.
If you are windows users, try Pavtube HD Video Converter.
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