Monday, June 29, 2015

How to Play 4K Red Recordings on Realplayer?

Summary: When playing 4K Red recordings on Realplayer, you’re gonna suffer a big annoyance- Realplayer won’t play 4K Red recordings for you. Any suggestions can be offered?


The Red digital cinema camera company is an American company that manufactures professional-grade digital cinematography and photography tools. Red cameras are very modular and support raw recording of stills and video, in the case of the RED Epic-M up to 6K resolution.

“I’m on Windows operating system and recently my friend gave me a 4K Red video. When I used Realplayer, the video is very sharp and some of the text in it can’t be seen correctly.”

There are more and more 4K recordings that we can access such as from 4K Red camera, famous streaming video hosting sites (YouTube, Vimeo) and others. When you got some 4K Red recordings, you may wanna play them on computer, mobile or portable devices. Well, as there are many users are facing the trouble watching 4K Red recordings on Realplayer, what’s the best solution?

Currently, most 4K recordings are recorded in MXF/RAW/XAVC/XAVC-S format, while Realplayer supports .mp4 format best. That means, as long as you convert 4K Red recordings to Realplayer supported MP4 format, you can play any 4K Red recordings on Realplayer flawlessly. Luckily, now we’ve got this problem fixed! Pavtube Video Converter is highly recommended and you can depend on it to perfectly convert any 4K Red recordings to Realplayer accepted MP4 format with 100% the original 4K video quality kept. If you are running on Mac version, you can refer to the equivalent version- Pavtube Video Converter for Mac.

                             

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More details are allowed here for you to take the advice:

Step 1: Download and install the corresponding program. Click “Add video” on the main interface to load 4K videos to the program. You can also drag the files to the program’s window list directly. This program can also support the batch video clips.



Step 2: Select the right formats for playing on Realplayer. Here we suggest you to go to the “HD Video” list, you will get the “H.264 HD Video (*.mp4)” as the best output.



Step 3: Click “Settings” button; you can adjust video and audio settings, including codec, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, and audio channel. To down-convert ultra HD 4K to 1080p for easier playback, you just need to adjust video size to 1920*1080.

Step 4: After all the settings, you can preview the final result of movie. If you are happy with the effect, you can then press the big “Convert” button on the lower right to launch the conversion.

Conclusion: Some guys recommend third-party 4K video player apps like VLC, DivX Player, Media Player Classic, but all of them can't be an ultimate solution for all 4K videos. Based on our testing, to have a smooth 4K Red recordings playback on Realplayer, this professional converter is the best choice.

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Monday, June 22, 2015

Edit Sony Z100 4K XAVC in Sony Vegas 13

Summary: Sony PXW-Z100 XAVC is not the preferred format by Sony Vegas 13. To avoid these problems or limit, the best way is transcoding 4K XAVC footage to a more editing-friendly format.


Cameras that can record in 4K are not new: Sony has the F55, Canon the EOS 1D-C and C500, and there are the Reds. Sony recently added 4K as an option to the F5 and FS700, and the GoPro can even shoot 4K, albeit briefly. But the Sony PXW-Z100 has few competitors, on price. The EOS 1D-C is almost twice the price of the PXW-Z100, and the Canon’s price is body only. The Sony, however, is expected to sell for around £4500, a similar price to the 1080p, PMW-200.

After shooting videos with Sony PXW-Z100, how to do the post editing to those XAVC videos on Sony Vegas 13 or other editors is really a headache for many users. “Anyone having an issue getting Vegas 13 to accept the 4K XAVC clips from the new Sony PXW-Z100? Why do the Sony camera divisions and SCS not work together to ensure that their own NLE can accept their own camera footage when a camera is released. It’s crazy.”

XAVC allows for a wide range of content production including intra frame recording and long group of pictures (GOP) recording. Although Sony states that the Vegas 13 supports native XAVC editing, we find it’s not easy to edit XAVC in Sony Vegas 13. Why Sony Vegas 13 won’t import Z100 4K XAVC files? Sony Vegas 13 supported file formats may give you some clues:

Opens: MOV, WMV, H.264, AA3, AAF, AIF, ASF, AU, AVC, AVI, BMP, BWF, CDA, DIG, DLX, DPX, DV, EXR, FLAC, GIF, HDP, IVC, JPEG, AVCHD, M2T, M2TS, MVC, Sony MXF (XDCAM and HDCAM SR), MP3, MP4, M4A, MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 video, OGG, MPO, OMA, Panasonic MXF (DVCPRO, AVC-Intra) PCA, PSD, QT, R3D, PNG, SFA, SND, TIFF, TGA, W64, WAV, VOX, WDP, WMA, XAVC Intra MXF, XAVC S

Saves: H.264, AA3, FLAC, AC3, AIF, ATRAC, AVC, AVCHD, AVI, DPX, EXR, HDP, MOV, MP4, WMV, MP3, MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 video, M2T, Sony MXF (XDCAM and HDCAM SR), MVC, OGG, Panasonic MXF (AVC-Intra), PCA, W64, WAV, WMA, XAVC S, XAVC Intra MXF

To ingest 4K XAVC to Sony Vegas 13 perfectly, Pavtube Video Converter is highly recommended to convert 4K XAVC to Sony Vegas 13 native format- MPG. No matter what version of the apps you are applying, and what Windows system you are working on, this video converter will assist you to import XAVC files to Sony Vegas 13 smoothly.

                       

Follow its step-by-step instruction below to learn how to encode XAVC to MPEG-2 for Vegas 13:

Step 1: Backup your 4K XAVC videos from your Z100 camcorder to hard drive. Install and launch 4K Video Converter. Drag and drop 4K video files to the software. You can import multiple files at once thanks to batch conversion.



Step 2: Click the drop-down list in the format line to get the format box. Then choose “Adobe Premiere/Sony Vegas>>MPEG-2 (*.mpg)” as output format.



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: You can preview to check the final result. Once you are satisfied with it, click the “Convert” button to start converting Z100 4K XAVC to MPEG-2 .mpg format. It will take you a little while.

Conclusion: After conversion, you’ll get no troubles in editing Z100 4K XAVC in Sony Vegas 13. Follow the steps and have a try!

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Friday, June 19, 2015

Sony HDR-PJ275 1080/60p AVCHD to Avid MC Workflow

Summary: Have issues with importing PJ275 1080/60p AVCHD MTS files to Avid Media Composer on your Mac? Just follow the steps below to convert 1080/60p AVCHD to Avid MC compatible format DNxHD to solve it.


The Sony HDR-PJ275 is the least expensive Handycam with a projector (13 lumens). The camera records in exquisitely rich 1920 x1080/60p Full HD video and Internet ready MP4. It's not easy to ingest Sony HDR-PJ275 AVCHD to Avid MC. Though Avid sometimes accepts AVCHD files, there are always all kinds of problems. The time-consuming rendering process, the astonishing enlarged file size when Avid automatically encode AVCHD to DNxHD and the quality degradation that can not be ignored, are really a pain when we desperately want to bring AVCHD to Avid MC for post production.

I guess many guys have the experiences with free converters, such as Handbrake. But free product seems have limits. The multiple steps make me confused when I need to preset profile. And once, after conversion, I get only video but no audio from Sony AVCHD MTS files. In the Avid forum, many posts are about no audio or unsynchronized problem. Pavtube MTS/M2TS Converter for Mac is the best to keep audio and video sync without rendering time and file size enlargement when bring 1080/60p AVCHD progressive to Avid MC. For 60i/50i AVCHD files, the problem may be the thin horizontal lines radiating from all moving objects or wild flickering on still images containing thin horizontal lines. The program can easily remove and deinterlace the bad interlace if you need.

Find it's difficulty to keep or change frame rate as you want after try many conversion tools? The program we mentioned above allows you easily to set video frame rate with one click. And the built-in editor tool will help you trim, crop, add watermark, add subtitles, join video and capture pictures, etc. Now since the 3D camera are emerging after CES 2014, it is able to convert AVCHD to 3D video in MKV, MP4, MOV, WMV, and AVI with HD quality.

                               

Here is a step-by-step tutorial for you to figure out your AVCHD MTS to Avid MC problem:

Step 1: Import Sony HDR-PJ275 files to Mac MTS Converter. Run it as the best Mac MTS Converter, and click the “Add video” button to load your original files. You may also directly drag and drop files to application UI for importing files.



Step 2: Click the “Format” option and navigate the mouse cursor to “Avid Media Composer>>Avid DNxHD (*.mov)” as output format.



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: When everything is ready, click “Convert” to start converting PJ275 AVCHD MTS to Avid DNxHD. This Mac MTS/M2TS Converter supports batch conversion so you may load multiple files and convert them at one time.

Conclusion: After converting, you can get the generated files by clicking “Open” button. Now, you can edit PJ275 1080/60p AVCHD MTS in Avid MC freely. While 2015 Father’s Day is nearly here, have you got something for beloved dad yet? Learn more about Pavtube Studio special offer for this year’s Father’s Day.

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Monday, June 15, 2015

Ikegami GFCAM HDS-V10 MXF to Premiere Pro CC/CS6 Workflow

Summary: If you are looking for a solution to convert MXF file shot by Ikegami HDS-V10 for editing in Premiere Pro, this article is worthy reading. It presents the detailed steps required to convert Ikegami HDS-V10 MXF to MPEG-2 for use in Premiere Pro.


Ikegami HDS-V10 camcorder is a professional high-end camcorder, it uses 2/3-inch 3CCD system and digital process IC (ASIC), it can help you to record high quality videos in the resolution of 1920*1080, the recordings will be in MPEG-2 HD Long GOP MXF video format, the MXF video format is mainly used by professional camcorders, which can give you high quality videos.

However, when importing and editing Ikegmai GFCAM HDS-V10 MXF videos in Premiere Pro CC/CS6, users always encounter video, audio and other import problems. “I want to edit my Ikegami HDS-V10 .mxf files in Premiere Pro CC without quality loss, what should I do? And I take much time on importing Ikegami MXF video into Premiere Pro CC. The process is a pain in the neck.”

Owing to video codec, computer configuration and operating environment, it is difficult for Premiere Pro to recognize MXF videos. Even though the users can import the MXF videos to PPro, some importing issues will occur as the above users met due to the incompatibility. As .mxf format is efficient, but simply isn't engineered to maintain quality during complex post production effects processing. Uncompressed HD format delivers superior image quality, but data rates and file sizes can stop a workflow dead in its tracks. Well, MPEG-2 MPG format delivers both efficiency and quality without compromises. So, before transferring Ikegami V10 MXF to Premiere Pro CC/CS6, you’d better convert MXF to MPEG-2 MPG, Premiere Pro best accepted format, for smoothly editing.

Overall, Pavtube MXF Converter for Mac (review) is just one of the best MXF to Premiere Converter for you to transcode MXF files for PPro CC/CS6 smooth editing on Mac (Yosemite included). The program is capable of converting Ikegami GFCAM HDS-V10 MXF as well as Canon XFSony XDCAM and Panasonic P2 MXF to DNxHD, Apple ProRes, AIC, etc on Mac OS X for smoothly importing and editing in various non-linear editing systems, including Avid Media Composer 5.5/6.0/6.5, Final Cut Pro, iMovie and more.

                        

How to import Ikegami HDS-V10 MXF to Premiere Pro CC/CS6 for editing?

Step 1: Download Mac MXF Converter, and follow the prompts to install the program. When the installation is complete, the best MXF to Premiere Converter will launch automatically.

Step 2: Click “Add video” button to load Ikegami HDS-V10 MXF files or directly drag the files into file list. By default, the files are selected. You can delete files which you don’t want to import to.



Step 3: Click “Format” bar to determine output format. For best image quality, click the format bar and choose “Adobe Premiere/Sony Vegas>>MPEG-2 (*.mpg)” as output format.



Step 4: Click “Convert” button to start to convert Ikegami HDS-V10 MXF to MPEG-2 MPG format. After conversion, import the converted MXF videos to PPro CC/CS6 for real time editing and mastering.

Conclusion: You can set auto shutdown in progress window or leave it there and come back later. There is no more difficulty in editing Ikegami HDS-V10 MXF in Premiere Pro CC/CS6.

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Thursday, June 11, 2015

DJI Phantom 2 Vision+ Video to PowerDirector 13 Workflow

Summary: With the Phantom 2 Vision+, you can records MP4 formats, but most users may find a problem when converting DJI Phantom 2 Vision+ MP4 to PowerDirector 13 for editing. These MP4 files are clunky to edit requiring much rendering when in a PowerDirector 13 timeline.


As we know, MP4 is widely used for saving media datum. And it can be found in lots of places, such as camcorders (GoPro/Sony or other camcorders), websites (YouTube/Fox or other Video websites) and even the newly aerial apparatus like DJI Phantom 2 Vision+. It is a common video format for users to share.

When you import DJI Phantom 2 Vision+ recorded H.264 MP4 videos to PowerDirector, you may get the error message below: “An error occurred while opening this media file in the media library. It may be because the file is broken, an unsupported format, protected video content, or for another reason.”

Solution 1: If your imported file is placed under the path which using Unicode folder name (for example: Chinese, Japanese, Korean…) and have Apple QuickTime 7.7 version installed, you will encounter the problem. This is because the data structure in new QuickTime version has changed. First, name your folders/files in English. And then re-install QuickTime software. It could fix the issue.

Solution 2: If you still can’t resolve the problem, this could happen because of the different codec in a number of MP4 files as CyberLink PowerDirector (even the latest PowerDirector 13) might not support all of these codecs. If you’re in such a situation, there is an easy way to fix the issue. Get an MP4 converter, and Pavtube Video Converter is highly recommended, and transcode .mp4 files to MPEG-2, which will save you both time and trouble, and all you need is to drag the result videos for prompt editing. Supported file fomats for CyberLink PowerDirector 13 is for your information.

                             

More details are allowed here for you to take the advice:

Step 1: Download and install the program. Click “Add video” on the main interface to load H.264 MP4 files to the program. You can also drag the files to the program’s window list directly. This program can also support the batch video clips.



Step 2: Select the right formats for editing in PowerDirector 13. Here we suggest you to go to the “Adobe Premiere/Sony Vegas” list, you will get the “MPEG-2 (*.mpg)”as the best output.



Step 3: Wanna compress your H.264 videos? Well, in the “Settings” button, you can adjust video and audio settings, including codec, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, and audio channel.

Step 4: With all the preparations work done? Why not go back to the main interface to click the “Convert” button to get the work started?

Conclusion: Once the conversion is finished, click “Open” to quickly find the converted files. Then, PowerDirector 13 will recognize, catalog, play and stream them just fine. During Jun 12th to Jun 15th, Pavtube Studio has a special offer provided for all of you!

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Monday, June 8, 2015

Convert Sony Videos to Windows Media Player on Windows 10/8.1/8

Summary: If you want to play Sony videos on Windows Media Player, you need to convert Sony videos to AVI first, which is compatible with WMP, and Pavtube Video Converter is the right tool can help you.


As the default media player in Windows operating system, Windows Media Player (abbreviated WMP), makes it easy to play audio, video and view images for Windows users. However, many Sony videos contain video streams that are encoded using codecs that WMP cannot normally interpret. When you attempt to playback such a file like XAVC/XAVC S/XAVC L, problems may be encountered.

Sony videos to Windows Media Player playback problem:
To be frank, recently on some recording forums there are a few of Sony PXW-X70 users complained that Windows Media Player can’t recognize X70 recorded XAVC L MXF files: “Just got the Sony PXW-X70 and I can’t seem to open its XAVC L MXF or even successfully transcode the video files into something that can be read by WMP. I downloaded Brorsoft Video Converter and the Acrok Video Converters and neither of them works. Very frustrated here, any advice?”

“I have purchased Sony DSC-WX500 camcorder last week. I have recorded several 1080p videos with it and the recordings are in XAVC S, when I try to import the XAVC S files to Windows Media Player, it says the video formats are not supported to import.”

Being a new recording format introduced by Sony, XAVC/XAVC S/XAVC L has not been widely adopted now. Long GOP is a high-efficiency codec to serve more widely the requirements of the professional market, which XAVC S employs the MP4 wrapping to serve the consumer market. In order to watch Sony XAVC/XAVC S/XAVC L video on Windows Media Player smoothly and to solve various incompatible issues, you should choose a best codec or format for Windows Media Player playing, AVI format is the first choice. Having tested so many third-party programs, PavtubeVideo Converter is highly recommended for the easy of use and lossless quality. With the upgraded version 4.8.6.2, it supports encoding to M3U8. What is M3U8 and what’s the advantage of M3U8? You can remove all your confusions when reviewing top-ranked M3U8 Converter for Windows.
Tips: If you are Canon lovers and users, how to play Canon videos on Windows Media Player could do you a big favor.

                            

Detailed steps about how to play Sony videos on Windows Media Player:

Step 1: Download, install and launch the smart Video Converter. Click “Add video” or “Add from folder” button to load Sony videos to the program. You can also directly drag the files to the main interface.



Step 2: For playing Sony videos on Windows Media Player smoothly, you can hit the “Format” bar to choose “HD Video>>AVI HD Video (*.avi)” as best output format.



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: Now everything has been settled, and don’t forget to set the file location. Click “Convert” button to start the conversion work and click “Open” when you finish your conversion to check your converted files.

Conclusion: Now, you can enjoy playing Sony videos on Windows Media Player without any hassles. If you’re satisfied with our product, why not share it with your friends and family?

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Sunday, June 7, 2015

How to compress MOV file to MP4 on PC or iMac?


There aren’t that many really popular video formats, and MOV is one of the leading contenders. The incompatibility of formats between different platforms and devices can still be a problem for many users. For example, big file size of mov recorded from camera/camcorder is hard to be played and your devices has limited storage space. And if you want to convert files to other equipment for editing, such as Avid Media Composer, Windows Movie Maker, Sony Vegas, Adobe Premiere Pro, Android/ Apple devices, or playing on computer,what to do?



The easiest way to resolve this problem is to compress MOV files to another file type that is more widely supported by devices and operating systems, such as MP4 (MPEG-4). Read this tutorial on how to compress or convert MOV to MP4, then install the program and give it a try yourself.

We highly recommend you Pavtube Video Converter, the best video movie compression software to help you compress MOV file to MP4 for editing and playing on Windows. If you are running on Mac, you can turn to the equivalent version Pavtube Video Converter for Mac
There’s also a Free MP4 Players for Windows/Mac. If you want to learn more, please read.

More details are allowed here for you to take the advice:

Step 1: Download and install the corresponding version. Click “Add video” on the main interface to load MOV files to the program. You can also drag the files to the program’s window list directly. This program can also support the batch video clips.



Step 2: Open the list of supported formats by clicking the convert to section. Locate the collection of MP4 presets and select the one that will work best for your target devices.



Step 3: If you want a smaller size when the free apace is not enough, you can click "Settings" to adjust Bitrates (kbps) and Size (pix). Choosing a little lower Bitrates and Size will help you to get a smaller target file, but it also leads to a lower video quality in saved file. Don't forget the balance between video quality and size.

Step 4: Click the “Convert” button to start compressing MOV files to MP4. After the conversion, click the ‘Open’ button to locate the output files and transfer the files to other equipment for editing or playing on computer.

The guide is very simple. If you want to learn more, you can see more products on our official website.

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