Import and Edit Sony A9 4K XAVC S to Premiere Pro

Sony’s new flagship full-frame monstrosity called Sony A9 can assist you to capture up to 100Mbps 4K (UHD) XAVC S video at 24/25/30p. For Mac users, before sharing your camera footage with friends on Mac computer, iPhone, iPad, Apple TV or video sharing sites, you can do some professional effects rendering or color correction work with the professional NLE editing software Premiere Pro CC. So how about the workflow of Sony A9 4K XAVC S with Premiere Pro CC?

Work Sony A9 4K XAVC S with Premiere Pro

The good news is that if you are Adobe Premiere Pro CC 8.2.0 (2014.2) or later version users, you can directly load 4K XVAC S into Premiere Pro CC without rewrapping or transcoding. Following are the simple steps to ingest 4K XAVC S into Adobe Premiere Pro CC:
- Ensure that the Premier Pro version is compatible with the chosen XAVC mode.
- Choose Media Browser.  Locate the footage from the media card (SxS, XQD or SD).
- Either right-click on the clip and select Import, or select the clip or clips and go to File Menu and select Import.

However, if you are using previous version of Adobe Premiere Pro CC 8.2.0 such as Adobe Premiere Pro CC, Premiere Pro CS6, Premiere Pro CS5, etc, you will then fail to load the Sony A9 4K XAVC S into Premiere Pro CC/CS6/CS5, etc.

Transcode Sony A9 4K XAVC S for Premiere Pro CC/CS6/CS5 editing

To fix the format incompatible issue, you can download Pavtube Video Converter for Mac. For those people who own a old Mac computer and just want to have a smooth 1080p video editing workflow, you can use our program to directly output Sony A9 4K XAVC S to Premiere Pro CC/CS6/CS5 native optimized MPEG-2 editing codec. However, if you happen to own a powerful Mac computer and wish to have a high performance and high quality 4K editing workflow, it would be much ideal for you to choose the Apple Prores 422 or 422 HQ format, an intermediate codec that is encoded with variable bitrate to be economical with video storage, without damaging the visuals. In addition, as a 10 bit codec, Apple Prores can process a lot of more color data and make the color correction process easier.

Edit 4K XAVC S with built-in editing tools

Don't want to move the whole video clip into Premiere Pro CC/CS6/CS5 for post editing. Never mind, you can use the program's built-in trim function to cut off unwanted clips or segments. If there are black edges around the video frame, you can use the crop function to remove them off. In addition, you can also add external subtitle to the video.

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How to Convert and Import Sony A9 4K XAVC S to Premiere Pro CC?

Step 1: Transfer camera video to the Mac computer.

You can edit the Sony A9 4K XAVC S footage directly from the SxS card via the camcorder, or a card reader, or use the Media Browser to transfer the content to hard disk for better performance.

Step 2: Load Sony A9 4K XAVC S files.

Launch the best XAVC Converter on your Mac computer and then load source 4K XAVC files that you've transferred to your Mac Hard Drive to the program by click Add Video button. You can also drag and drop your XAVC files into it.

Step 3: Define the output format.

Clicking "Format" bar drop-down list, to have a smooth 1080p editing workflow on Premiere Pro, just choose "MPEG-2(*.mpg)" under "Adobe Premiere/Sony V..." main category.

For high quality and high performance 4K editing workflow with Premiere Pro, just choose "Apple Prores 422(*.mov)" or "Apple Prores 422 HQ(*.mov)" under "Final Cut Pro" main category.

Step 4: Trim/Crop/Add subtitle to Sony A9 4K XAVC S files.

Trim video length

In the video editor window, choose the "Trim" tab and this tab is selected by default when the editing window appears. You can use the trim function to cut off unwanted parts from start and end. You can either drag pointers on the process bar or set exact time point in Start and End boxes to set.

Crop video black bars

The "Crop" facility enables users to get rid of the black edges and unwanted area of the image. In the video editor window, navigate to the "Crop" tab. Follow the below methods to crop selected video:
A: Crop video by dragging and dropping the crop frame. Simply move your mouse cursor to drag and adjust the green frame to desired position.
B: Crop video by setting values. There are "Simple Mode" and "Advanced Mode" under Crop feature.

Add subtitle to video

Open "Video Editor" window, switch to the "Subtitle" tab, check enable, then you will be able to load external SRT/ASS/SSA subtitles to your movies.

Step 5: Begin the conversion process.

After all setting is completed, hit the "Convert" button at the right bottom of the main interface to begin the conversion process from Sony A9 4K XAVC S to Premiere Pro CC/CS6/CS5 compatible 1080p or 4K editing codec.

When the conversion is finished, click "Open Output Folder" icon on the main interface to open the folder with generated files. Then feel free to import video to Premiere Pro CC for professional effects rendering or color correction workflow.

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Compress MOV to MPEG-4 with Fast Speed and Best Quality

MOV file is a common multimedia format most often used for saving video or movie files. The size of the MOV files differs depending upon the length and compression technique used. Usually, MOV files are of high quality and their size exceeds than many other multimedia formats. When we create a MOV and MP4 files with the same compression settings, the output size can be times larger in MOV in comparison with MP4. Therefore, sometimes, we will often have the need to compress MOV file to MPEG-4 for faster uploading, downloading and streaming. In addition, MP4 is also a good choice than MOV for space saving consideration.

How to Compress MOV to MPEG-4?

When you are searching on the market, you may find that they are many program can assist you to do the video compression job. If you are looking for a free solution, Handbrake is absolutely the best choice. Although Handbrake will ensure you a good output quality, however, a lot of people complain that it takes very long time for Handbrake to complete the compression process. If you are looking for a program that offers both fast compression speed and also splendid output quality, we highly recommend Pavtube Video Converter to you. Which surpasses all its competitors in the following aspects:

Fast compression speed

- Batch conversion mode to batch load multiple MOV files at one time for compression to MPEG-4 to save your precious time
- Compress MOV to H.264 MP4 with up to 6x speed with the technology of Nvidia CUDA or Nvidia AMD App technology
- Compress MOV to H.265 MP4 with up to 30x speed with the technology of Nvidia NVENC technology

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Perfect output file quality

The program supports to produce high compression results, you can't find any difference between the original MOV files and the result MPEG-4 files.

Enhanced media compatibility

The program has full support for import MOV files encoded with various compression codec such as H.264, Apple Prores, DNxHD, Xvid, etc. In addition, the program also facilitates you to compress MOV to MPEG-4 with various compression codec including MPEG-4, H.264, H.265 for different usage and different file resolution such as SD MPEG-4 MP4, HD H.264 MP4, 4K H.264 High Profile MP4 or 4K H.265 MP4.

Other beneficial ways to compress MOV file

Besides changing output container file format or compression codec, the program also offer you other flexibly ways to compress MOV file for advanced users. You can lower video file resolution/bit rate/frame rate, make sure to keep a balance between the video quality and the file size/bit rate/frame rate. If you don't want to want any quality but just want to get a smaller MOV file, you can take good advantage of the program's trimming function to remove unwanted parts from the video to get a shorter video, cropping function to remove the black bars or unwanted areas to get a small fie size video or the splitting function to split large video files into small parts by file size, count or length.

For Mac users, you can download Pavtube Video Converter for Mac to complete the video compress job on Mac computer.

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Step by Step to Compress MOV Files to MPEG-4

Step 1: Load MOV files into the program.

Download the free trial version of the program. Launch it on your computer. Click "File" menu and select "Add Video/Audio" or click the "Add Video" button on the top tool bar to import source MOV files into the program.

Step 2: Choose output file format.

Clicking the Format bar, from its drop-down list, select one of your desired MPEG-4 format to output according to your own needs. Here, it would be much ideal for you to choose "H.264 HD Video(*.mp4)" under "HD Video" main category which will ensure you a fast video compression speed and also a good output file quality.

Tips: Click "Settings" on the main interface to open "Profile Settings" window, here, you can lower video file resolution, bit rate, frame rate to compress video.

Step 3: Trim/Crop/Split MOV files.

Trim video length

In the video editor window, choose the "Trim" tab and this tab is selected by default when the editing window appears. You can use the trim function to cut off unwanted parts from start and end. You can either drag pointers on the process bar or set exact time point in Start and End boxes to set.

Crop video file size

The "Crop" facility enables users to get rid of the black edges and unwanted area of the image. In the video editor window, navigate to the "Crop" tab. Follow the below methods to crop selected video:
A: Crop video by dragging and dropping the crop frame. Simply move your mouse cursor to drag and adjust the green frame to desired position.
B: Crop video by setting values. There are "Simple Mode" and "Advanced Mode" under Crop feature.

Split large video into small clips

Click the split button on the file list to launch the Video Split window. Ticking "Enable" option, you can split the file by file count, time length, or file size.

Step 4: Begin the video compression process.

After all setting is completed, hit the "Convert" button at the right bottom of the main interface to begin MOV to MPEG-4 compress process.

When the conversion is finished, click "Open Output Folder" icon on the main interface to open the folder with generated files. You can then get your desired MP4 files with great quality for better uploading, downloading, streaming and storage.

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Convert Cyberlink PowerDirector Video to MP4, MKV, MOV, AVI

Cyberlink PowerDirector video editing software provides easy-to-use and powerful tools for high quality video productions. Once you have finished editing your video production, you can save it as a video file so that you can conveniently upload and share your great editing work on social networking web sites, transfer and play on portable devices, stream to TV via home media servers or burn to a disc. Cyberlink PowerDirector allows you to export video in both 2D or 3D in various different file formats listed below.

Supported exported file formats by Cyberlink PowerDirector

Video Formats	2D Video: 3GPP2, AVI, MPEG-2, H.264 AVC, Windows Media Video (WMV), MPEG-4, QuickTime(MOV), Matroska (MKV), XAVC-S (MP4), H.265/HEVC (MP4/MKV/M2TS) 3D Video: Windows Media Video (WMV), MPEG-4, MPEG-2, H.264 AVC,QuickTime(MOV), Matroska (MKV)
Audio Formats	WMA, WAV, M4A

From above lists, we can see that the exported file formats by Cyberlink PowerDirector is limited to few container file formats or file codec. If you wish to export other popular video file formats such as MPEG-1, FLV, M4V, ASF, etc or audio file formats like MP3, AAC, AC3, AIFF, FLAC, MKA, etc, for YouTube sharing, iTunes playback or music players listening, then you will need the assistance of a third-party Cyberlink PowerDirector video converter.

Convert Cyberlink PowerDirector video to more digital formats

Export Cyberlink PowerDirector projector to digital video

Before converting Cyberlink PowerDirector projector to other digital file formats, you will first need to export Cyberlink PowerDirector projector to a digital video with the following steps:
1. In PowerDirector, navigate to the Produce Tab.
2. Select your preferred video format, and then select the Profile name/ Quality for the created video file.
3. Click the ellipsis button (marked in red) to set the output folder, i.e. where the created 2D video will be located.
4. Enter a file name and then click Save.
5. Click the start button to output your video production.

Then feel free to download Pavtube Video Converter, which can assist you to batch load multiple Cyberlink PowerDirector video and then convert any of your desired SD/HD/2K/SD file formats with the container file format of AVI/WMV/MP4/MOV/MKV/FLV/3GP/3GPP/3GPP2/ASF or codec like H.264, H.265, Xvid, Divx, DV, Apple Prores, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, MPEG-TS, etc.

Besides the plain digital file formats, you can also use this program to convert Cyberlink PowerDirector video to hot devices and program preset profile formats or other editing program like Vegas Pro, Movie Studio Platinum, Premiere Pro, After Effects, Davinci Resolve, Avid Media Composer specially optimized editing codec.

Pavtube Video Converter is available on both Windows 10/8.1/8/7, it is also accompanied by an up-to-date Mac version - Pavtube Video Converter for Mac for macOS Sierra or macOS Sierra
The program is very easy to use, no matter experienced user or fresh could handle it very well. What's more, the results produced by the program are pretty high quality, you can't tell the difference between the converted video and the original Cyberlink PowerDirector video.

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Step by Step to Cyberlink PowerDirector Video to MP4, MKV, MOV, AVI

Step 1: Load Cyberlink PowerDirector Video.

Download the free trial version of the program. Launch it on your computer. Click "File" menu and select "Add Video/Audio" or click the "Add Video" button on the top tool bar to import Cyberlink PowerDirector video into the program.

Step 2: Define the output format.

Clicking the Format bar, from its drop-down list, select one of your desired digital file format or devices and program preset profile formats that can't be exported from Cyberlink PowerDirector.

Step 3: Start the conversion process.

Clicking the Convert button on main interface to pop out a PowerDirect video to MP4, AVI, MOV Conversion window with conversion information such as Time elapsed, Time left, Generated size, and Estimated size.

After the conversion, you can click "Open output folder" to popup output directory with the converted files. Then feel free to play, share and edit the PowerDirector video as you like.

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Free Convert MP4 to WAV on Windows 10/8.1/8/7

MP4 is the most popular video file formats that has widely compatibility with various media player apps, portable devices, game consoles, TVs, etc. While WAV is a Waveform Audio file format that's mainly used on Windows computer. Sometimes, you may come the need to extract a WAV file from MP4 file for viewing on Windows Media Player, VLC, iTunes, QuickTime, etc. The following article will show you a free workaroud to convert MP4 to WAV.

Free convert MP4 to WAV with Pavtube Free DVDAid

Although there are many free online video sites that can assist you to get the job completed. However, you may find them almost all of them have the file size uploading limitation, in addition, the slow uploading and downloading speed will run out of your patience. What's more, some may even fail to upload your MP4 files if is encoded with some uncommon codec. If you are looking for a free, powerful yet fast program with no file size importing limitation, then we highly recommend Pavtube Free Video DVD Converter Ultimate to you.

The program has full support for MP4 files with various different video and audio codec, you can easily and efficiently extract WAV from all MP4 files with perfect quality. Besides WAV, you can also save MP4 files to other audio file formats such as MP3, WMA, AAC, AC3, M4A, OGG, AIFF, FLAC, MKA according to your own needs.

Trim/Merge output WAV audio

If you don't want to extract the whole audio out from mp4 video, you can use the trim function to cut off unwanted audio clips. The "Merge" function can assist you to combine separate WAV audio clips into one single file.

How to Free Convert MP4 to WAV with Pavtube Free DVDAid?

Step 1: Load MP4 video.

Download the free trial version of the program. Launch it on your computer. Click "File" menu and select "Add Video/Audio" or click the "Add Video" button on the top tool bar to import source MP4 video files into the program.

Tips: If you want to batch load multiple files, make sure to store all your files in the same folder, then click "File" > "Add from folder" or press the "Add from Folder" button on the top tool bar to batch importing them into the program.

Step 2: Define the output format.

Clicking the Format bar, from its drop-down list, you can output "WAV - Waveform Audio(*.wav)" under "Common Audio" main category.

Step 3: Trim or merge output audio files.

Trim off unwanted audio clips

In the video editor window, choose the "Trim" tab and this tab is selected by default when the editing window appears. You can use the trim function to cut off unwanted parts from start and end. You can either drag pointers on the process bar or set exact time point in Start and End boxes to set to leave only your wanted audio parts.

Merge audio files

By ticking off "Merge into one file" option behind "Settings" button, you can merge the ticked audio files in list into one single file.

Step 4: Begin the conversion process.

After all setting is completed, hit the "Convert" button at the right bottom of the main interface to begin the conversion process from MP4 to WAV.

When the conversion is finished, click "Open Output Folder" icon on the main interface to open the folder with generated files. Then feel free to play the extracted WAV files from MP4 on Windows Media Player, VLC, iTunes, QuickTime, etc.