Tuesday, February 11, 2014

DNxHD Converter for Avid - Transcode Sony HDR-CX330 MTS to DNxHD for Media Composer and Xpress Pro

Summary: This guide aimed at to solve your issue with importing and editing Sony HDR-CX330 AVCHD footage smoothly in Avid MC and Xpress Pro, just follow it to get your Sony AVCHD footages working in Avid easily with native DNxHD codec.

Rounding up the bottom are the HDR-PJ275, HDR-CX330, and HDR-CX240. Sony HDR-CX330 is a new 9.2 MP Exmor R CMOS sensor Handycam Camcorder from Sony. This device boasts a 2.7 inches Clear Photo LCD display with Full HD 1920×1080 video at 60p and still images.


We were using Avid MC and Xpress Pro to cut the 60p mts footage from Sony CX330, but we had difficulty when importing the video files. Then can't handle the AVCHD files well. some the footage looks washed out and the preview is loggy. This was mainly an issue with Avid. Is there anyway to solve the problem?

As the 1080/60p frame rate is so high and the codec is not friendly to Avid for editing, to edit your Sony CX330 1080/60p MTS in Avid MC and Xpress Pro smoothly, the best solution is to transcode MTS format to DNXHD codec which is best supported by Avid.

What you need:

Pavtube MTS/M2TS converter for Mac which can be used as the best Sony AVCHD MTS Converter. It is free, clean and safe to install and use. With it, you can effortlessly transcode MTS to DNxHD MOV, ProRes, Apple Intermediate Codec, which maximum editing quality and efficiency when working with Avid Media Composer, Final Cut Pro and iMovie, and it works well and converts flawlessly. The Windows version is MTS/M2TS Converter. Below is how.

Convert Sony CX330 1080/60p AVCHD to DNxHD for Avid MC and Xpress Pro

1. Download the top Sony MTS to Avid Converter, follow the prompts to install the program. Run this program. Click "Add" to load Sony CX330 MTS video files or directly drag the files into file list.


2. Click "Format" bar to determine output format. For natively editing in Avid Media Composer and Xpress Pro, you are recommended to choose Avid Media Composer -> Avid DNxHD (*.mov), this format is best for Avid MC and Xpress Pro native editing.


3. (Optional) If you would like to customize the video and audio parameters, you can click "settings", adjust the parameters as you want, like Video Codec, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, Audio codec, sampling rate, bit rate, channels.

4. Click "Convert" to start to convert Sony CX330 60p AVCHD to Avid DNxHD codec for natively editing.

Now you may have known the easy way to convert Sony CX330 MTS to Avid MC and Xpress Pro, after conversion, import the converted video files to Avid MC and Xpress Pro and you can edit it smoothly without problems.
  • Click here to learn how to load the converted DNxHD video to Avid Media Composer. 
  • Clikc here to konw how to import video files to Avid Xpress Pro.
PS:

1. If you need to know more conversion application on MTS video, such as Sony MTS to FCP, you can view Pavtube MTS column which has so many solutions.

2. If you want to watch AVCHD recording MTS videos on your widescreen TV through a regular DVD player, first you need to burn recording MTS to DVD.

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