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Thursday, October 9, 2014

Edit 4K XAVC and AVCHD from Sony PXW-X70 to FCP X

This post introduces an easy-to-use way to help you convert Sony PXW-X70 4K XAVC and AVCHD footage to ProRes for editing in FCP X.

Are you a loyal photographer or Sony camcorder fan? In other words, do you know the 4K Sony PXW-X70 HD Camcorder? Today here we can make a good friend with Sony PXW-X70 and edit its output footage with ProRes codec in a general way.

The camera records broadcast quality 1920 x 1080 HD video using a variety of codecs, at 4:2:2 10-bit in XAVC, AVCHD and DV format. Therefore, for further editing with some popular editing software, may be you will get some trouble. As the following example showed:

‘Hi guys, at last weekend I took part in an outdoor activity called ‘Boating on Seine’, it was such an interesting theme that attracted a lot of people. I was in charge of the activity for recording the process with my Sony PXW-X70 camera. But when I edit the footage in FCP X, some errors appeared and it didn’t work well. Is that the video format limitation? Thanks a lot if you can do me a favor.’

Frankly speaking, to build a bridge which can connect Sony PXW-X70 with FCP X, maybe we need a 4K to FCP X Converter for Mac to play this role well. A strong tool that can convert your 4K XAVC or AVCHD files to Prores for FCP X with no quality loss.

Simply introduction of 4K to FCP X converter in a general way
Download the program and load your files in, you can choose any one form the importing items, ‘Add video’ or Add from folder’. Especially for FCP X, here we come to the important point, with the high quality reserved, we may go to ‘Final Cut Pro” to ‘Apple ProRes 422 (HQ)(*.mov) like the following picture:


For those primary editors, simple ‘Editor’ here may do you a big favor. How about ‘Trim’ to decide your video length, ‘Crop’ to drop off your unwanted clips, add some ‘Subtitles’ or make some ‘Effects’, etc. Come here to have a look.


What’s more, after you finish your conversion with ‘Convert’ button, for those people first work files in FCP X, here we can tell you how to transfer files in FCP X in a correct way. Just have a nice day, guys!

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