Summary: By transcoding MXF to AIC MOV format, you can
smoothly import/edit Canon C300 MXF files into iMovie 11 and Final
Cut Express 4 without problmes.
Bringing Canon’s expertise and decades of experience designing sensors, lenses, image processing and design to the world of motion picture capture, the EOS C300 camera has been designed to meet the demanding needs of cinema industry professionals, providing a modular, portable and eminently adaptable system of cameras, lenses and accessories built for moviemaking in the 21st century.
A variety of physical and electronic C300 elements are borrowed liberally from Canon’s XF series camcorders, chief among them being the recording codec, known as Canon XF. It is a 50Mbps 4:2:2 MPEG2 codec utilizing the widely supported .MXF wrapper, writing 1080p30 and 720p60 video to Compact Flash at a choice of either 50Mbps or 35Mbps.
You may have used Canon C300 camcorders to record many high-definition footages which are in MXF video format, this video format is good for record videos, but it’s not compatible with many editing software, such as iMovie 11 and FCE 4 on Mac.
You may have the need to import C300 MXF footage to iMovie 11 and FCE 4 for editing. So what to do? The best way is to convert MXF to iMovie/FCE supported video format, like Apple InterMediate Codec (AIC) .MOV format. Now you can follow the step-by-step guide to convert C300 recorded mxf files to AIC MOV for iMovie 11/FCE easily.
1. Free Download Pavtube MXF Converter for Mac. The program is an excellent easy-to-use and intuitive Mac tool for camcorder users. It is good at batch converting MXF recordings shot by Panasonic P2 camcorders, Sony XDCAM camcorders, Canon XF series cameras to ProRes/AIC MOV formats compatible with your Mac Video editing software like iMovie, Final Cut Pro (X), Final Cut Express.
2. Install and launch this Mac MXF to AIC Converter, import Canon C300 MXF footages to the software.
Step 2. Click the "Format" option, select "iMovie and Final Cut Express > Apple InterMediate Codec(AIC)(*mov)" for editing Canon C300 MXF in iMovie/FCE.
Some more helpful features of the batch MXF to MOV Converter for Mac:
1. Adjust video and audio parameters. (Optional)
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, bitrate, frame rate as you need.
2. Editor (next to "Add" icon)- click to set deinterlace, denoise, mute, volume up, trim, crop, etc.
Step 3. When above steps finished, you can click "Convert" button to start converting Canon C300 MXF to AIC MOV for iMovie 11/FCE 4 with a super fast speed. With the excellent C300 MXF to MOV Converter, you can deal Canon C300 MXF footage on Mac with best video and audio quality as you want.
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