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Wednesday, January 7, 2015

Workflow: Sony a7 II XAVC S to Avid Media Composer on Mac OS X

If you got some troubles in editing Sony a7II XAVC S recordings in Avid Media Composer for further editing, here we can give you some suggestions.

You cannot get rid of the trouble when importing your XAVC S MP4 recordings to Avid Media Composer which shot from Sony a7 II camera? If so, you may wish to read this post. It explains an easy job to convert Sony a7 II XAVC S video for editing in Avid with good quality. From XAVC S MP4 to DNxHD MOV, you are supposed to get a XAVC to Avid Converter that can do this work well.

Issues when importing Sony a7II XAVC files to Avid Media Composer?
”Hi, I’m trying to import video recordings from the new Sony a7 II to Avid MC6. The camera uses a flavor of MP4 that is called XAVC-S. I have tried the traditional importing method, but there’s no go. I have also tried the AMA plug-in created by Sony, unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to support Sony a7 II XAVC-S footage. Does that mean I have to use 3rd party software to convert formats? If so, does anyone know of a good XAVC-S Converter that is worth trying?’

Related Questions in NELs: Import MXF files in FCP X? MTS files in DaVinci Resolve? Here you can take a close reference if you need.

Relationship between XAVC S files and NELs(Example: Avid MC)
Since the XAVC S footage is a peripheral non-standard format which is not supported by Avid Media Composer, Some other NELs are not suitable too, such as FCP, Sony Vegas etc. In order to import Sony Alpha a7II XAVC S footage into FCP for smoothly editing, we can render to the famous third-party software Pavtube XAVC S to Avid MC Converter for Mac to help us to convert XAVC to DNxHD .mov.

Tips: For those Windows users, Windows XAVC Converter is also allowed here. What I need to mention is with the upgraded version 4.8.2, this windows product can support the latest video codec H.265/HEVC well. Do you wanna a try?

Guide: How to convert XAVC S to DNxHD MOV for editing in Avid MC?
Step 1: Start up HD Video Converter as a professional Sony a7 II XAVC S MP4 Converter. When its main interface pops up, click ‘Add File’ to input your source media with individual clips or in a complete folder.

Step 2.Select suitable output for Avid
Convert Sony a7 II XAVC S MP4 files to DNxHD for Avid MC. From ‘Format’ bar on the main interface, just drop down the list and select ‘Avid Media Composer DNxHD (*.mov)’ as output format under ‘Avid Media Composer’ column.

Step 3. Optional function to customize video and audio settings
If necessary, you can click ‘Settings’ button and go to ‘Profiles Settings’ panel to modify video and audio settings like video encoder, resolution, video bit rate, frame rate, aspect ratio, audio encoder, sample rate, audio bit rate, and audio channels. 3D settings are also available.

Step 4. Then we are going to come to the final step, click the ‘Convert’ button on the main interface and start out job. If you are the first time to work XAVC files with this Avid MC, some related tips you can take a reference in this transferring article. What’s more, this third-party can hold almost all formats for editing in other popular editing tools, that’s why it has a good reputation online.

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Monday, January 5, 2015

H.265 Workflow: Encode Samsung NX1 4K H.265 Video to H.265/H.264 MP4

Looking for an easiest way of converting H.265 videos to H.265/H.264 MP4 for a further editing or playback on Windows? Let me show you around this article.

Meet the New Samsung NX1, a 4K Mirrorless Camera that Encodes to H.265
The past week has been replete with major camera announcements. However, Samsung, a relative newcomer in professional camera manufacturing, just announced the NX1, a mirror less camera that delivers many of the specs that we were hoping for from today's announcement of the Canon 7D MKII. Not only does the NX1 offer 4K recording at 24fps, UHD at 30fps, and 1080p at 60fps, but in the higher resolutions, it encodes using the new, highly-efficient h.265 codec, a first for a camera of this type.

Smoothly enjoy your Samsung NX1 4K H.265 recordings?
However, which is known to all that H.265/HEVC, the new codec which has not been accepted by most editing tools or media players, we are usually trapped in this H.265 workflow. So it is necessary for us to encode 4K H.265 to H.265/h.264 MP4 with the professional H.265 Video Converter, which produced by Pavtube studio and with therecent upgraded version 4.8.2, it can encode and decode H.265 files smoothly, is that cool?

P.S: Do you wanna learn how to encode your H.265 footage on Windows with FFmpeg Alternatives?

Overall, this H.265 Encoder can make us get closer to the H.265/HEVC codec. Yon will have no worries about the recordings from Samsung NX1 camcorder any more. For so many different kinds of formats you can choose as the output, such as MP4, AVI, WMV, MOV, etc, in this case, do you still worry about the editing or playing H.265 recordings? Moreover, here we can learn how to convert H.265 to H.264 MP4 step by step:

Guide on encoding Samsung NX1 4K H.265 Recordings to H.265/H.264 MP4:
Step 1. Add your NX1 4K H.265 Recordings
Launch the NX1 4K Movie Converter and click the “Add video” button to browse your computer hard disc and load the NX1 4K H.265 video files you want to convert to the software.

Step 2. Select your output format
Could you find the ‘Format’ bar on the left of the preview window? Open this icon and drop down the list, you can find the new items in ‘HD Video’ there. Here we can meet the different requirements, choose ‘H.265 HD Video (*.mp4)’ or ‘H.264 HD Video (*.mp4)’? Each one you can make a nice selection.

Notes: Cause the H.265 codec can bring us the higher quality and smaller size, at the same time, if you choose the ‘H.265 MP4’ as the output format, I think you should wait for much more time of the conversion result.

Step 3(Optional)Video/Audi Settings:
To get the best video quality and sound effect, you are allowed to easily adjust video/audio parameters such as bitrate, sample rate, frame rate, codec, channels, etc after clicking on “Settings”.For example, if your raw video is 4K and there is not such high setting in the drop-down menu, the way to solve this is to type the resolution into the “Size” option manually. Just leave the original default is not a bad idea too.

Step 4: Start your conversion
Go back to the main interface and hit the ‘Convert’ button there, we can easily convert out H.265 files to H.265/H.264 MP4. Any suggestions or tips you can leave as comments below. Thanks for your reading!

Additional Tips: Until now, only the Windows products can support the H.265 codec files well. What’s more, If you have Nvidia CUDA/ATI AMD ready graphics card, you can have GPU encoding. Check the status of the CUDA/AMD button on the main interface of this upgraded H.265 Video Converter and you’ll learn if CUDA/AMD encoding is in use. Note you can only select the GPU Decode Acceleration when your files are output as baseline profile.

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Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Work MP4 Files with Adobe Premiere Pro, Premiere Elements, After Effects

Today in the following article, we are going to offer you the best solution to work MP4 videos with Adobe Premiere Pro, Premiere Elements and After Effects.

Summary: Facing the problems when importing MP4 videos to Adobe Premiere Pro, Premiere Elements and After Effects? Just go through a quick reading on the article below, here you will find an efficient way to fix the issues well.

As Adobe Editing studio is a digital motion graphics, visual effects and compositing app developed by Adobe Systems used in the post-production process of filmmaking and television production. The point here, you will find it a painful experience to import MP4 files to After Effects for movie editing. There're some frequently asked questions quoted as below.

Questions: Why can’t I nicely work MP4 files with my Adobe editing programs, including the Premiere pro, Premiere Elements or After effects? Sometimes, only Audio plays without image there. It seems like that Adobe can support the MP4 files for editing from the news, it that true?

Answers: In fact, these are the common problems encountered by many AE users. Actually, After Effects like CS4, CS5, CS6, CC supports MP4 natively. However, MP4 codec is a final delivery codec it is not one you want to use for editing. Thus, there are many video, audio codec problems while importing MP4 video into After Effects for editing. Plus, even the Adobe program can ingest your MP4 files directly, it takes a long time for rendering. The best method to avoid those problems and save time is to convert MP4 to a more editing-friendly format, such as AE's MPEG-2 (the most compatible video format for AE).

Best MP4 to Adobe Video Converter---which you need to work the Adobe programs well:
To smoothly convert MP4 footage to Adobe Premiere, Elements or After Effects, we need some third-party tools to do a favor. After countless tests, I highly recommend Pavtube Video Converter to all of you which can help the users to encode any MP4 files to Adobe editing programs supported formats at super fast speed.

Simple step by step guide you can take reference to convert MP4 to MPEG-2 for Adobe as follows:
Step 1.Load source MP4 files
Launch the MP4 video converter on Windows, click the ‘Add video’ or ‘Add from folder’ to let your MP4 recordings in. If you have already stored your files on your computer disk, why not drag them directly in?

Step 2. Suitable output for Adobe suggested here
In order to find the most suitable one for Adobe editing programs, in the searching box, you can tap the ‘MPEG-2’ to get the result. Or on the output list, we can drop the list to select the ‘Adobe Premiere pro/Sony Vegas’ >>’MPEG-2 (*mpg)”in another way.

Step 3. Optional functions you may be interested:
Besides the ‘Settings’ and ‘Edit’ we are all familiar with, today here are going to introduce the ‘Options’ button the main interface, you have my words you won’t be disappointed with it. Just enjoy yourselves.

For a final step, go back to the main interface to tap the red big button ‘Convert’ to finish the work? To transfer the files into Adobe, just according to the common instructions. Any more questions? Welcome to leave them as comments below.

Tips: With the recent upgraded version 4.8.2.0 of this video converter, it can support theH.265 encode and decode, so if you get the needs, why not download or update it to have a try?

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Sunday, December 28, 2014

Surprise for Pavtube Upgraded Windows Products! H.265/HEVC or XVAC Codec Supported!

Pavtube Studio has upgraded their all Windows products to the newest versions which can support the H.265/HEVC or XAVC codec videos.

Good news for everybody! Thanks to the Pavtube Studio, we can realize our hope to enjoy the super high quality videos encoded by H.265 or HEVC. During this 2014 Christmas holidays, it is indeed a big Christmas gift for everyone who loves shooting high definition videos, right? Let’s find more details about this great job!

Tips: Development and prospect of Pavtube Studio---News for Upgraded H.265/HEVC Converter!

Main new features we may be interested in:
1. H.265/HEVC encode supported
2.H.265/HEVC decode supported
3.Support MXF in XAVC Video Codec
4.Add H.264 baseline/main/high output profiles

What Windows products are upgraded well?
For videos:
Pavtube HD Video Converter
Pavtube Video Converter
Pavtube MXF Converter
Pavtube MXF MultiMixer
Pavtube MTS/M2TS Converter

For DVD and Blu-ray:
Pavtube BDMagic
Pavtube ByteCopy
Pavtube DVDAid

Both for Videos and DVD/Blu-ray:
Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate

What is HEVC(H.265)?
High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) is the latest generation video compression standard. This standard was developed by the ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) and ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG), through their Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding (JCT-VC)
HEVC is also known as ISO/IEC 23008-2 MPEG-H Part 2 and ITU-T H.265

HEVC provides superior video quality and up to twice the data compression as the previous standard (H.264/MPEG-4 AVC)
HEVC can support 8K Ultra High Definition video, with a picture size up to 8192×4320 pixels

The benefits of H.265
H.264 has been a huge success. It’s a flexible codec standard that’s used by streaming services, satellite providers, and for Blu-ray discs. It’s scaled remarkably well since it was first proposed and is capable of handling 3D, 48-60 fps encodes, and even 4K. The Blu-ray disc standard doesn’t currently include provisions for some of these technologies, but the H.264 codec itself is capable of handling them.

The problem with H.264, however, is that while it can handle these types of encodes, it can’t do so while simultaneously keeping file sizes low. A new standard is necessary to push file/stream sizes back down while driving next-generation adoption, and that’s where H.265 comes in. It’s designed to utilize substantially less bandwidth thanks to advanced encoding techniques and a more sophisticated encode/decode model.

With the popularity of H.265(HEVC) and XAVC, more and more users are fond of enjoying this high resolution videos. So in this way, Pavtube Studio has offered us an efficient way when meeting troubles in editing incompatible H.265 videos in NELs or play on media players. Pavtube products I think that can do you a big favor.

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Friday, December 26, 2014

How to Encode AVI to DivX Files on Mac or Windows

How can I watch my AVI files on DivX Player on Mac or Windows? I’m in a hurry to solve this question, could do give some effective solutions?

Download some AVI movies online or shot some AVI recordings by HD cameras? Recently, I heard that someone complained with such problems of having difficulties in playing AVI movies on DivX Player? Or for a faster sharing videos on web? In this article, you can make all your dreams come true.

DivX is a hot codec which is popularly used to save media files online and offline—this may result that there are lots of DivX files downloaded or shared on your Mac. And these videos are viewable on many media player especially DivX player. In order to solve this, this article focused on a AVI t DivX Mac/Windows conversion for making the unaccepted files accessible to some AVI supported devices like and video sites.

Just accept the Pavtube AVI to DivX Converter for Mac/Windows as your conversion assistant and then we can offer the step-by-step guide for you below:

Locate your target AVI files into this Video Converter
Run the program and drag your AVI files in directly, or go to the ‘Add video’ and ‘Add form folder’, we can easily load our files in.

Next, in the format tray on the output list, we just need to find the suitable format there. Come to the ‘Common Video’, let’s select the ‘DivX AVI’ as our best. Also there, if you need to convert your AVI files to others for editing tools or media devices, just choose one there.

Moreover, do you have any interests in editing your videos? In the ‘Edit’ button, we can be a good editor. Get shorter with your movies by ‘Trim’? Remove some unwanted edges with ‘Crop’? Or switch the mode as ‘advanced mode’ we can get more there.

Finally, hit the button on the main interface and with a high conversion speed, we can easily get our files encoded by DivX codec. Is that an easy operation work we can all do well? Any other suggestions or opinions you can leave the message below. Thanks for your reading!

More sharing:
AVI (Audio-Video Interleave) is a container introduced by Microsoft. Motion JPEG is a type of AVI compression. While AVI in general is ubiquitous for standard definition video content on the Internet, there's no indication Apple is supporting the specific XviD/DivX codec (encoding/decoding) used by those AVI files, so you need to convert AVI to Adobe Premiere or Play AVI on handle devices on Mac or convert AVI to a format which Apple supports.

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Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Top-ranked XAVC/XAVC S Video Converter Review + Guide

In the following page, there is a detailed introduction of top-ranked XAVC/XAVC S video converter review and a guide on how to work it well.

Let’s come to the main topic directly! Today in this page, we would like to introduce you a nice XAVC/XAVC S video converter for you, which has the strong ability of handling the HD XAVC and XAVC S formats for other editing tools such like FCP, iMovie, Premiere, etc. Cause the XAVC format is not so suitable for those apps we would like to work with no matter for media players and editing apps. So it is necessary for us to make some changes, right?

Top Role: Pavtube XAVC Video Converter for Windows/Mac
This kind of XAVC or XAVC S converter is an all-in-one media conversion program that can almost handle all videos nicely here. With Pavtube Video Converter for Mac, you’ll have free access to watching SD videos (e.g. YouTube FLV/F4V, MP4, AVI, MPG, WMV, etc), digital camcorder recordings (e.g. MXF, MTS AVCHD, MOV, MP4, MVI, etc), DVR videos (Tivo), audio files (e.g. MP3, MP2, WMA, FLAC) on devices such as Apple/Android/Windows series, media players, game consoles, etc

Want more? Here are some main features you may not know better:

1.Support almost all HD/SD video or audio formats
2.Various editing tools or media players for output
3.Powerful editing functions we can do a simple dispose
4.Batch video clips conversion supported
5.Detailed settings for video and audio output
6.6X faster conversion speed to save much time of waiting.

Guide on how to work this XAVC/XAVC S Video Converter (Mac version as the example):

Download and install this program according to its instructions, when the main interface pops up there, you can drag your files directly in or with two buttons on the left corner. ‘Add video’ and ‘Add from folder’ can both help you out in that way.

Then come to the output list, you will be surprise with so many different output choices here. No matter for editing tools, media players, or handle devices. You can find all there. Only for some common videos? Could find the ‘Common videos’ there? Such as the MP4, MOV, MKV, etc we can choose as our favorite there. Like the following screen shot showed for you.

Before we start our conversion, why not take around the ‘Edit’ button on the main interface. This is the reason why we also call this program as ‘Tiny Editor’. Here, we can decide our video length by ‘Trim’, get rid of the unwanted edges by ‘Crop’, or something else interesting. You won’t be disappointed here.

Back to the main interface, you must see the big red button called ‘Convert’. Hit it and then we can finish our preparation work. Such an easy operation for us to handle with, right? For other more guides about XAVC or XAVC S files, we can take a reference below.

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Friday, December 19, 2014

Wanna Extract One Stereo WAV from MXF 4 Audio Tracks?

Overview:

You got an idea of extracting one stereo WAV from MXF 4 Audio Tracks? Why not read the following guide to get more details? Quite easy!

Summary: According to the following page, we will be provided a professional MXF Converter which has a strong ability of extracting one stereo audio such as WAV from MXF 4 audio tracks, also, if you want do some change with original MXF files, you won’t be disappointed with this program.

Just like the question asked below:’I have MXF that includes video and 4 audio tracks. First two tracks are left and another is fight so the rest one is empty. Now I would like to extract and compile these two channels into one stereo WAV, is that possible?’ As asked above, the high definition quality MXF usually has several audio tracks. However, it is not efficient enough and the extracted audio sounds wired. Sometimes, you will miss some audios when importing MXF files to popular editing tools for editing.

Adapting advanced audio encoding technology, Pavtube MXF Converter for Mac or iMixMXF can achieve this job well. The outstanding highlight is that e can trim the file to get we wanted or preferred audio length when converting MXF to stereo WAV. As one of the most efficient converters, the time-saving and easy-to-handle conversion process is also an essential feature. (See also Best MXF Converter for Mac Review)

Download and Install Pavtube MXF Converter for Mac.

Other Download:
- Pavtube old official address: http://www.pavtube.com/mxf-converter-mac/
- AppStore Download: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pavtube-mxf-converter/id502807634?mt=12
- Amazon Download: http://www.amazon.com/Pavtube-MXF-Converter-Mac-Download/dp/B00QID8K28
- Cnet Download: http://download.cnet.com/Pavtube-MXF-Converter/3000-2194_4-76177789.html

More specific steps by steps that we can make some references to learn how to work this program well and extract WAV audio from MXF audio tracks:

Step 1: Load your source audio files in
Open the main interface, you can directly drag your files in this program or with the ‘Add video’ button, we can individually import our audio clips. Batch conversion is available here.

Step: Extract your WAV audios
Click the ‘Format’ bar on the left of the preview window, you can input the ‘WAV’ in the searching box or just click the ‘Common Audio’ to find the ‘WAV-Waveform Audio (*.wav)’ as the best one the output list.

Step 3: get into the ‘Settings’ button, don’t forget to set the audio codec as ‘wav’ and in the ‘Edit’ interface, the equipped built-in editor tool allows you to trim the video length, so you can get your desired audio. Here you can drag the slide the block to decide where to start and where to end by ‘Trim. etc.

Note: What we have to mention here is the iMixMXF we also suggested above, it is designed for those people who want to the transcode the MXF video with multi-track audios as output. Why not free download it and have a try?

Finally, click the ‘Convert’ button, we can easily get the extracted WAV audio tracks from MXF audio tracks. You have my words you won’t be disappointed. Any other questions you can leave the comments below. Good luck!

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