Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Open Sony WX500 XAVC S Videos in VLC on Windows/Mac

‘I just had a 2-day shoot last week on the Sony WX500 and I must say I'm really excited about this camera! But when I wanna enjoy the xavc recordings on VLC media player on Windows, it crashed and errors appeared on the screen like ‘unsupported errors’. Does it mean I cannot import my WX500 xavc s files to VLC for playback?’


Have you ever met some questions mentioned above related to Sony WX500 XAVC S recordings? For the high definition output XAVC S recordings, it is common that we may be failed in editing or playing the Sony WX500 XAVC S files, right? Don’t worry too much, in the following guide, we can find the best solutions to smoothly open Sony WX500 XAVC S files in VLC for playback on Windows/Mac.

Sony WX500, which is designed to meet the requirements of novice photographers and offers a collection of automatic shooting options. It can be shot in Full-HD at 8 bit and 4:2:0 at up to 50Mbps in AVCHS, MP4 or the new XAVC S format at 50/60p. Just as we know that XAVC usually cannot be accepted such in iMovieAvid or upload to YouTube, etc. So we need some useful XAVC tips to play XVAC S videos onVLC nicely.

Pavtube Video Converter for Mac---Easily convert WX500 XAVC S to VLC for playback. (Windows version), which we can effortlessly and flawlessly transcode Sony WX500 XAVC S footage to VLC normally supported AVI. To make your XAVC files playable and readable by most portable devices and applications, this is a professional XAVC assistant to help us a lot with easy operation and faster speed. Let’s see how!

How to open Sony WX500 XAVC S files in VLC on Windows/Mac?
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. As we mentioned above, here we would like to suggest you to come to the output list to choose the ‘HD Video’>>’AVI HD Video (*.avi)’ as the best one for VLC media player. By the way, MP4 is also an available choice for us.


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.



As soon as we have finished all the preparation work, we suggest you to go to the main interface to hit the ‘Convert’ button to get the work started. Up to here, you will not be worried about the XAVC S to VLC for playback. Let’s just enjoy the Sony WX500 recordings here!

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