Solve Sony WX500 XAVC S to iMovie/FCE Issues

Why so many Sony fans would like to import the WX500 XAVC recordings to iMovie/FCE for editing? How could we solve the problems when editing Sony WX500 XAVC files in iMovie/FCE? With the strong function of this brilliant camera, let’s find the best solutions below.

 

Attractive features Sony WX500 camera brought to us:

• Uses technologies from RX and Alpha series in a small compact form 
• 18.2MP Exmor R CMOS 
• 30x Zeiss Vario-Sonnar T* zoom lens with 60x Clear Image zoom 
• Optical SteadyShot with 5-axis IS 
• Compressed in XAVC with high definition

However, what a pity that iMovie/FCE cannot recognize these XAVC recordings. You may be failed in ingesting your Sony WX500 XAVC files to iMovie/FCE for editing due to its’ supported video formats. Fortunately, here is the easiest way to import the Sony WX500 XAVC files to iMovie/FCE---Pavtube HD Video Converter for Mac, which can decode the XAVC videos to those supported ones for iMovie/FCE. 

The program is an easy-to-use yet professional Sony XAVC Converter for Mac. It’s able to convert XAVC S files from Sony DSC-WX500 to iMovie/FCE more compatible AIC MOV videos. With it, you  may also encode XAVC to Final Cut Pro, Avid Media Composer, FCE, iMovie and more NLE programs highly compatible formats for editing. If you meet the XAVC to iMovie/FCE problems, just get this program to help us a lot. 

Notes: For all Windows users, we can get the Windows version to have a try! Such as playback WX500 XAVC on VLC?

Steps on converting Sony WX500 XAVC to AIC MOV for editing in iMovie/FCE:

Step 1.Install this trail version on your Mac before purchasing to make sure everything goes right. After launching this app , click “File”>”Add Video/Audio ” to load your XAVC files, you can double click it to have a review on the preview window.

Step 2. Select the right format for iMovie as output. Let’s go to the output list to find the ‘iMovie/FCE’>>’Apple Intermediate Codec(AIC) (*.MOV)’ as the best one.

Step 3. Click this “Settings” button, it will bring you to this UI , no matter the Bit rate or Frame rate, Size (pix) all here for you to make the adjustment. You can see the whole file size if you considering about uploading them online while the file size is required for smaller one.

Finally, we can go back to the main interface to hit the ‘Convert’ button to get the work stared. Then just open the output file folder and transfer the files into iMovie/FCE for further editing. For more functional advice, welcome to tell us.

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Edit/Play/Burn OBS Recorded 1080/60p Video on PC/Mac

In the following article, it explains the reason why we are failed to edit, play or even burn our OBS recorded 1080/60p videos on PC/Mac. If you have recorded some game footage with OBS (Open Broadcaster Software), you may get some issues when importing the OBS movie files on PC/Mac, especially for some hot editing tools and media players.

Further learning of OBS (Open Broadcaster Software):
Open Broadcaster Software is a great platform to broadcast live streams. Generally OBS saves files as MP4 or FLV. The files can be uploaded straight to YouTube or other video hosting site just fine. However, when you bring OBS to FCP for editing on Mac or merge the OBS clips together. So in this way, if you wanna edit or play your OBS files smoothly on PC/Mac, just follow the tips below.

How to easily add the OBS to NLEs or Players on PC/Mac?
If you're in such a situation, there is an easy way to fix the OBS issues on PC/Mac. The quick workaround is to transcode OBS FLV files to supported formats such for FCP, Premiere Pro, iMoive, or HDTVs etc. Just download the Pavtube Video Converter for Windows/Mac to have a try, which is an easy-to-use yet OBS video converter, player and editor. It will save you both time and trouble on PC/Mac.

Steps on converting OBS 1080p/60p recorded videos on PC and Mac:
Step 1. Just download and install this program , then click the "Add" button to load the .flv or .mp4 videos. You can also use the drag-and-drop method to load the media files to the application UI.

Step 2. Come to the output list, there are so many items for output. For NLEs, you can choose the ‘Apple PreRes 422(*.mov)’ for ‘FCP’, ‘MPEG-2(*.mpg)’ for ‘Adobe Premiere Pro’/Sony Vegas’, etc. Or more formats for media devices? ‘HD Video’ interface is a good item.

Tips: Click the ‘Settings’ icon to adjust video and audio parameters on the Profile Setting as you need to get the best quality video. This is the functional option for those advanced users.

Now click the big “Convert” to start this easy conversion. Wait for a few moments; you can click “Open” to locate the converted video directly. Freely import your OBS video files on PC/Mac, all of us can do this job well.

Notes: For those people who wanna burn OBS videos as DVDs, here we can highly recommend the DVD Creator for Windows/Mac. With this professional DVD program, we can easily burn the OBS videos so nicely.

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Import H.265 footage to After Effects CC on Mac OS X

What’s wrong with your H.265 footage from Samsung NX1 camcorder? It is absolutely that H.265 can bring us a higher quality enjoyment with smaller size, so for some advanced users, we would like to edit the videos such in After Effects CC for better. This article here can remove the troubles when editing H.265 in AE especially on Mac OS X. Just follow me.

“It was crashed when I add my Samsung NX1 H.265 footage to After Effects CC, I bought this 4K camcorder just because it is said that we can enjoy a higher image quality we’ve never met before. Now the errors trapped me a lot, how could I solve that well?”

Have you ever met some problems of importing the H.265 footage? It’s true that the H.265 codec is very young and the relevant support software can’t chase its fast step. But can we find a solution which can deal with those H.265/HEVC videos easily while quality won’t have much degradation? Such as the FCP X, or Youtube for sharing, etc. What we are now needed is a professional H.265 decoder to convert to MPEG-2 MPG, which could be the best one for After Effects CC.

Pavtube Video Converter for Mac, this is a professional H.265 decoder/encoder that we wanna highly introduced to you. This upgraded version is specially designed for the latest codec H.265/HEVC. Cannot import H.265/HEVC recordings to After Effects? With a faster speed and easy operation workflow, it would be easier to convert the H.265 to MPEG-2 MPG for After Effects CCC on Mac OS X. 

Steps on converting H.265 to MPEG-2 for smoothly editing in After Effects:

Step 1. Download and install the program on our computer as soon as you get into the main interface. Directly drag your files in is not a bad idea. Or here we got other effective ways. Click the ‘Add Video’ icon on the left corner, we can import the source files individually. ‘Add from folder’ is offered for you to load your files in a complete folder.



Step 2. For seeking the most suitable output for After Effect. Just drop down the output list, we suggest you to select the ‘Adobe Premiere Pro/Sony Vegas’>>’MPEG-2 (*.mpg)’ as the best one.

Step 3. (Optional) Set your output videos in your own style? Let’s come to the ‘Settings’ interface to see how. To keep the original quality when editing in After Effects, why not adjust the video bitrates and frame rate as default? You will find it will be more suitable for your editing.

Finally, if you have done all the preparation work, on the main interface, we are going to suggest you to hit the ‘Convert’ button to get all the conversion started. Then after transferring the output files to After Effects CC on Mac OS X, it would be so glad to edit them on our own. H.265, higher life quality, Let’s enjoy it!

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Pavtube Biggest Promotion for 2015 Mother’s Day

What gift would you like to send to your mother on this 2015 Mother’s Day? To show our thanks to our mother, we are all thinking how to make this year’s Mother’s Day special with special gifts. If your mom likes watching the latest movies or videos, how about a professional video converter to get rid of the incompatible troubles to enjoy the favorite movies so smoothly? Pavtube studio has upgraded all products to the latest version, which could a warm gift for mom. Big discount will be offered in Pavtube Studio!

Pavtube Big Deal for Mom (Mother’s Day Only)
40% off discount we can enjoy if we get into the official promotion page and give the comments below: ‘What do you want say to your mom”. All of us can get the big coupon with the best Pavtube HD Video Converter for Windows/Mac, which is a professional converter to transcode all video formats nicely for any NLEs or media devices with a high quality preserved.

Other Special Off on Facebook(For Facebook users)
From May 7th to May 14th, all facebook users can enjoy a 50% discount of each Pavtube products during the 2015 Mother’s Day celebration! Just “Follow” the Pavtube official topic and “Like” it and you can own the qualification. Come on!

Other Official Website 20% – 40% discount:

Pavtube Video Converter for Mac(for Windows)
Have full access to SD videos,digital camcorder recordings, DVR videos on devices such as Apple/Android/Windows series, media players, game consoles and video editing programs.

Pavtube MTS/M2TS Converter for Mac(for Windows)
Convert Sony/Canon/JVC/Panasonic recorded MTS/M2TS/M2T/TS/MOD/TOD footage to play on media players or edit with Premiere Pro, Avid Media Composer, Final Cut Pro, etc.

Pavtube MXF Converter for Mac(for Windows)
Converting MXF video files generated by Canon/Sony/Panasonic camcorders to various video formats such as H.264/MPEG-4, MKV, MP4, AVI, MPEG, WMV, FLV, SWF, F4V, etc.

Pavtube iMixMXF(for Windows)
Transcoding MXF video files to Multi-track Apple Prores MOV for Final Cut Pro or Multi-track MP4/MKV format for other video editing program and media playback devices.

Additional Tips: With the recent upgraded version of Pavtube Mac products, all products have been upgraded tosupport the H.265/HEVC decode and encode. Some other bugs and fixed well there! Just come to Pavtube to know more and enjoy ourselves on 2015 Mother’s Day!

Canon XF Tools for FCP: Import Canon XF Videos to FCP for Editing

Any issues between Canon XF camera videos and FCP have you got? To smoothly import the all the Canon XF recordings to FCP for editing, several useful Canon XF plug-ins are offered here that can help us a lot. Let’s learn some more details.

Since the FCP has its’ all supported formats, it will not be suitable for you to directly import the Canon XF MXF files to FCP for editing. In this case, to solve all the troubles of Canon XF and FCP, we are going to introduce you several useful Canon XF plug-ins to help us a lot.

First One: Canon XF Plug-in for Final Cut Pro (6, 7)
This is a plug-in software for Final Cut Pro. This plug-in allows you to use the Log and Transfer function to edit movies captured with the XF camcorders. It is possible to play back movie clips in all movie formats supported by the compatible models, and to download native or Apple ProRes 422 files.

How to Install:
1. Check if FCP v6.0.3 to v7.0.3 or later is already installed on your Mac.
2. Download XPFM_1_1_0_2_8L.dmg.gz from the download page.
3.Double-click XPFM_1_1_0_2_8L.dmg.gz After decompressing the file, XPFM_1_1_0_2_8L.dmg will be created.
4. Double-click XPFM_1_1_0_2_8L.dmg. The disk image XPFM11 will be mounted.
5. Double-click the installer, XFInstaller.app in XPFM11.
6. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation.

Operating system(s): Mac OS X 10.5.x, Mac OS X 10.6.x

Second One: Canon XF Plugin for Final Cut Pro X (2.1)
Canon XF Plugin for Final Cut Pro X 2.1.1 is plug-in software for importing video clips captured by compatible camcorders into Final Cut Pro X. The Canon XF Plugin for Final Cut Pro X 2.1.1 features a new installer exclusively prepared to enable the software installation to a PC running OS X 10.8; the actual version of the Canon XF Plugin for Final Cut Pro X software to be installed remains 2.1. Therefore, if you already have the Canon XF Plugin for Final Cut Pro X 2.1 installed to your PC, you do not have to install the version 2.1.1.

How to set it up smoothly?
1.Confirm that Final Cut Pro X 10.0.3 has been installed to the computer.
2. Download "xpfm-2-1-1-8-9l.dmg.gz" from the download page. 
3.Double-click "xpfm-2-1-1-8-9l.dmg.gz". After decompressing the file, "xpfm-2-1-1-8-9l.dmg" will be created.
4. Double-click "xpfm-2-1-1-8-9l.dmg". The disk image "XPFM211" will be mounted.
5. Double-click the installer, "XPFM64Installer" in "XPFM211".
6. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation.

Mac OS X 10.7, OS X 10.8 
* Mac OS X 10.6 is not supported.

Third One: Pavtube Video Converter for Mac---Version 4.8.5.1
As you can see above, two Canon XF plug-ins we mentioned have their own limitations so we here introduce another stronger Canon XF Video Converter for FCP. With all Mac OS X systems supported well, it can convert all the Canon XF camera videos to ProRes MOV with an easy operation and faster conversion speed. Just follow the steps to know more?

Step 1. Open up this professional Canon XF Video Converter for Mac as a professional MXF to ProRes for Mac. When its main interface comes up, click “Add File” to load your source.



Step 2. To convert Canon XF MXF video for FCP programs, from “Format” list, choose “Apple ProRes 422 (*.mov)” as output format under “Final Cut Pro” column.



Functional tips:
Click the “Effect” button to open the Video Edit window to achieve editing MP4 like trim, crop, image, watermark, effect, subtitles and rotate and etc in the corresponding editing pane.
Click the “Setting…” button to open the Advanced Settings window to adjust the output video codec, resolution, bitrates, frame rate, aspect ratio, audio codec, channel, volume and etc in the advanced tab

Step 3. Hit the ‘Convert’ button of the best Canon XF Video Converter. It will start converting Canon XF recordings forimporting to FCP X. Soon after the conversion, just click “Open” button to get the generated files for natively editing Canon XF videos in FCP 6/7/X. 

After comparing with others, we can easily find the third one could be the best method for all users. Just get rid of all the related issues, we can make all Canon XF output recordings accepted by FCP series. Why not have a try?

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All Upgraded for Pavtube Mac Products---Version 4.8.5.1

Surprised news for everyone! The famous video studio Pavtube has announced that all its’ Mac products have been upgraded to version 4.8.5.1, which can bring us more functional items. Before that, all Windows products have been already done well. As the best H.265/HEVC decoder and encoder, Pavtube can help you a lot more.

New features of Mac version 4.8.5.1:

• Supported to decode/encode the H.265/HEVC codec
• Fix the XAVC MXF codec importing issues
• Optimize coding parameters
• Fix some bugs

Five upgraded Mac products are listed below:
1.Pavtube Video Converter for Mac
2.Pavtube HD Video Converter for Mac
3.Pavtube MTS/M2TS Converter for Mac
4.Pavtube MXF Converter for Mac
5.Pavtube iMixMXF

Download sites:
Pavtube Official website
CNET Download Site
Amazon Download Site

Big Discount! From May 4th to May 6th, all of us can enjoy 40% or 50% discount of each one from the Facebook website! What are you waiting for?

Play H.265/HEVC Videos with Smart TV on Mac OS X Yosemite

Wanna have a try of watching the H.265 high definition movies on smart TV on Mac OS X Yosemite but with some troubles? For learning more introduction of H.265/HEVC and solve the issues of watching H.265 videos on media devices, here we can get the best H.265 decoder/encoder to smoothly enjoy the H.265 movies on smart TV nicely.

‘Hello there, you know I got some recordings of the outdoor activities which shot by my new Samsung NX1 high definition 4K camcorder. I have tried to move them to smart TV for watching at home but failed. ‘errors’ always there I cannot remove them off well. Any good solutions?’

Cause the smart TV has the big screen and high resolution that can bring us a perfect enjoyment, most user may would like to enjoy movies on smart TV at home especially for those HD movies, right? However, we cannot put all kinds of videos formats directly due to the best video formats for smart TV. Such as the MTS to smart TV, etc. So in order to import the H.265 videos to smart TV so smoothly, we are glad to tell you the good news here.  Pavtube studio currently developed the Pavtube Video Converter for Mac to solve the problems well.

What’s new in this upgraded Mac Video Converter?
1. Upgraded to decode/encode the H.265/HEVC videos
2. Fix the crash problems of XAVC.MXF
3. Optimize the codec parameters
4 .Fix some bugs

What’s more important, this H.265 to smart TV converter can also decode the original H.265 videos to others to suit for other NLEs like FCP or media devices like QuickTime, etc. With the fast conversion speed and more functional editing items, you will enjoy the H.265 movies on smart TV with a high quality. Let’s below see how this job works:

Step 1.To add source video to the HEVC Video Converter, you can directly drag and drop them into the program window or go to “File” from menu bar and then choose “Add Files”.



Step 2. Choose the right output items for smart TV? Come to the output list, you'd better choose suitable formats from "TVs".

For advanced functions?
Click the “Effect” button to open the Video Edit window to achieve editing MP4 like trim, crop, image, watermark, effect, subtitles and rotate and etc in the corresponding editing pane.
Click the “Setting…” button to open the Advanced Settings window to adjust the output video codec, resolution, bitrates, frame rate, aspect ratio, audio codec, channel, volume and etc in the advanced tab.


Finally, hit the “Convert” button to let this smart converter start encoding H.265/HEVC video to smart TV MP4. When the conversion is done, you can stream and play the converted video in smart TV without hassle. To have a smooth H.265/HEVC video playback on smart TV, this professional H.265/HEVC Video Converter is the best choice.

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