Importing Canon C300 Mark II 4K MXF to FCP X in ProRes 422

Importing Canon C300 Mark II 4K MXF to FCP X in ProRes 422

Overview: If you recorded some 4K MXF videos with your new Canon C300 Mark II 4K camcorder, you may prefer to edit them on FCP before sharing with friends or uploading to YouTube. Then the question arises. Will editing programs like Final Cut Pro support 4K MXF videos on the latest Mac OS X El Capitan or previous? The answer is here, keep read!

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Canon C300 Mark II is a very hot camcorder on the market now. A lot of users choose to buy this excellent camcorder. It is a new camcorder with 4K internal video recording, which is aimed at beginners and semi - professionals who would want to upgrade to shoot 4K video without spending the big bucks for it. While as we often mentioned, as the incompatible one, MXF cannot be one of the best supported video formats for FCP X.

Though Canon C300 Mark II camcorder can help you to record high quality 4K MXF footages, but usually it can make video editing a real nightmare. "I've got a ton of Canon C300 Mark II 4K footage that I'm trying to import the C300 Mark II 4K MXF files to FCP X for further editing. Since the files come out natively as MXF, FCP X couldn't recognize these 4K MXF video files at all, let alone do the polishing work. What should I do?"

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To ensure a smooth workflow, you need to know if FCP X can ingest any video in .mxf format. Searching high and low, I got a solid answer and want to share the tips and tricks for editing 4K MXF in FCP X with all of you. As an ideal video editing tool, FCP X is widely used by video professionals and hobbyists. However, if you want to import Canon C300 Mark II 4K MXF to FCP X for editing, you'll be disappointed since FCP X accepts Apple ProRes 422, DV, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, AVCHD and QuickTime. So we can easily find that Canon C300 Mark II 4K MXF is not a compatible format for FCP X.

In this case, what's the best solution to import and edit C300 Mark II 4K MXF files with FCP X? Absolutely, it's to convert 4K MXF to ProRes, native supported video format for FCP X as mentioned above. The process is surprisingly easy and can be done with the help of Pavtube iMixMXF. With this program, you can effortlessly encode/re-encode Canon C300 Mark II 4K MXF footage for smoothly importing and editing in various NLEs on Mac OS X El Capitan or previous.

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How to convert Canon C300 Mark II 4K MXF to FCP X on Mac OS X El Capitan or previous?

Step 1: Launch the best MXF to FCP X Converter on your latest Mac OS X El Capitan or previous and load your original 4K MXF files in with "Add video" or "Add from folder". Directly drag 4K MXF files in is available.

Step 2: Click the "Format" bar to get the drop-down menu and you can get "Final Cut Pro>>Apple ProRes 422 (*.mov)".

Step 3: Click "Settings" button to customize the output video and audio settings by yourself. But if you are not good at it, you'd better use the default parameters, they will ensure you a good balance between file size and image quality basically. You can change the resolution, bit rate, frame rate as you need.

Step 4: Click the "Convert" button on the main interface if you have done all the preparation work. This is the workflow that we need to convert 4K MXF to ProRes.

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Conclusion: OK, everything is ready, you can get the generated files by clicking "Open" button and instantly edit Canon C300 Mark II 4K MXF files in FCP X.

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Source: http://camcordervideoshare.altervista.org/blog/convert-4k-mxf-to-prores/