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Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Can Premiere Pro CS6 Work Friendly with Canon MXF Files?

Premiere Pro CS6 no longer handles Canon MXF files? Read this post to know it is true or not and how to overcome the difficulties.

‘Can Premiere Pro CS6 handle with Canon MXF files still?’ 
This is a question that frequently appears on Canon column online buy some media fans or other video editors. As the following example you can see:’ I’m a creative cloud subscriber and download the lasted version of Premiere Pro. In the past, there’s no trouble when I import Canon files but today I get a ‘generic error’ here. It doesn't matter if I import video shot today, or video shot last month and successfully edited in Premiere Pro in the past. What gives?



Tips: Though Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 has upgraded form CS4/CS5, it still has no ability of working some incompatible formats, such as Common MP4Panasonic MXF recordings, etc. That’s the reason why we need to find some MXF converters to make our MXF files smoothly edit in Premiere Pro CS6. Let’s move on!

To search for the causes, some answers may be listed on the Internet such like ‘error sequence’, with the non-royalty bearing mode in Premiere Pro CS6, or the project contained a sequence that could not be opened. But for Premiere Pro best supported video formats , MPG, MOV or WMV is the traditional way for different versions of Premiere Pro. To suit for the stability of Premiere Pro, what other measures can we take?  

Canon MXF to Premiere Converter for Mac/Win---such a perfect converting tool that can make Premiere friendly with Canon MXF files. During a short conversion process, just get rid of the worries of such ‘error sequence’ or ‘non-native formats’. Why not take the following steps to have a try?

Note: Biggest high-light of this program: can convert MXF files with output multi-track audio just in your personal settings. No worries about missing your audio any more.

Add your Canon MXF files directly with USB cable connected with your Canon camera or in another way, click the ‘Add video’ or ‘Add from folder’ to load source files. For Premiere Pro CS6, special choosing items we can select here:’Adobe Premiere’>>’WMV VC-1 (*.wmv), MPEG-2 (*.mpg) or MOV AVC (*.mov).



Additionally for multi-track output videos, easily find the ‘Multi-track Video’ to ‘Multi-track MOV (*.mov) to get your wanted files in a convenient way as the picture below:



‘Settings’ for output video before you click the ‘Convert’ button. Both for video and audio items, you can adjust what you want here, such as video size, bitrate, or frame rate, etc. More, how to transfer files in Premiere Pro in a correct way here may help those who are going to work with this editing tool for first time.

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