Friday, February 20, 2015

Does Adobe Premier Pro CC Support XAVC S Codec?

Got the XAVC S recordings but failed in importing your Sony XAVC S files to Premiere Pro CC? Such similar questions often asked on some hot forums by most video lovers, right? Fortunately, today here let’s have a specific talking on the XAVC S workflow, would you like to join us?


‘I've seen this asked in various places however nobody from Adobe has addressed the issue so the result is a bunch of speculation from other users.  Could someone from Adobe PLEASE tell us if there are plans to support Sony's XACV S codec in Premiere Pro CC and if so when we can expect to see this support added.’ That’s the emergency question asked by those Sony fans. Have you ever got the problems of working your XAVC S codec videos with popular NLEs, such as iMovie or Avid MC etc.? 

While for the Adobe Premiere Pro CC, any good suggestions of working XVAC S codec movies with it? Here is the good news! In order to be able to transcode XAVC-S footage for editing in Premiere Pro CC with lossless quality, we here highly recommend you guys the Pavtube Video Converter for Mac, which we could also see as the prefessional XAVC S converting assistant that can help us a lot. It comes with very easy to use menus and produces very good quality conversions as well as bulk processing so you could load it with files and leave it alone to do the job.

More tips of converting XAVC S codec to MPEG-2 we can learn on this XAVC S assistant below:

Step 1. Start up XAVC S Video Converter as a professional XVAC-S to MPEG Converter. When its main interface pops up, click ‘Add File’ to input your source media.


Step 2. Choose output format. This video converter offers optimized format preset for Adobe Premiere. Just click “Format” menu firstly and then follow “Adobe Premiere/Sony Vegas” to set ‘MPEG-2 (*.mpg)’ as the best output one.


Optional tips: If the default settings do not fit you requirement, you can click “Settings” icon to and enter the interface panel to adjust video size, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate and audio channels. 

After the conversion, click this “Open output folder” to see your converted files. Then you can open your Premiere Pro CC and load them without any problem as the ordinary steps, ‘add files’… to make the work well. Just enjoy your XAVC S recordings after editing XAVC S videos in Premiere Pro CC.

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Monday, February 16, 2015

Convert YouTube to AVI for Better Playback on Most Players

Good ideas of converting YouTube to AVI for better playback on most players and portable devices are offered in this article you can take a reference.

Enjoy YouTube videos on popular media players or portable devices has become the more and more popular enjoyment among our video fans. Or on some other ways, we are glad to upload some camera videos to YouTube for watching, right? So today here in order to play YouTube videos nicely on media players or portable devices, we are suggested to convert YouTube videos to AVI to make them available there.


Download some YouTube videos to your hard drive and want to convert FLV to AVI either for sharing with your friends who have PCs, for playback on Apple devices or for some video editing tools. It seems that it is necessary for us to convert YouTube supported FLV format to AVI as the most common ones. On the other hand, with the YouTube supported video formats, we will be clear to know the uploading workflow.

Any best solutions for us to convert YouTube FLV to AVI for playback on players and portable devices?
Fortunately, we here can introduce you the Pavtube Video Converter for Windows/Mac to easily convert FLV to AVI or other video formats both for Windows or Mac users. Also with the original high quality preserved well, is has the good reputation on the video market. Let’s see more details below.

Step-by-step instructions offered below for us to convert YouTube FLV to AVI for a nice playback
Step 1.Download and install the YouTube FLV to AVI converter on our computer, then open the main interface and click the ‘Add video’ or ‘Add from folder’ to let the YouTube video in.


Step 2. Next we need to choose the right output videos to make YouTube videos accepted by media players or portable devices. As we mentioned above, we suggest you to get into the output list to select the ‘HD Video’>>”AVI HD Video (*.avi)’ s the suitable one.


Step 3. (Optional)You can go to the “Settings” UI to adjust the Bit rate, Frame rate or the audio channels. If there is no proper option in the drop-down menu, then you can import them manually. But please notice the balance between the Bit rate and Frame rate in case of blur or laggings.


Conclusion: After doing all those steps, hit this “Convert” button to start your conversion. After finishing your conversion, click “Open output folder” to check your converted videos. Then you can enjoy the YouTube videos on those popular media devices.

What’s more, with the Windows product upgraded not long ago, it can support the H.265/HEVC videos encode and decode, so if you have the desire of enjoying the higher quality and smaller size, it won’t make you be disappointed a lot. What are you waiting for?

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Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Enjoy Samsung NX1 H.265/HEVC Movies on VLC

Higher quality smaller size---that’s the biggest highlight that brought by the new video codec H.265/HEVC. On the other hand, someone now are confused with the issues of playing H.265/HEVC movies on VLC player. It seems that we should have an intensive talking on H.265/HEVC to know how to make H.265 movies smoothly played on VLC player.


MediaCoder H.265 encoding is open for beta testing, this is also one of the best codec features that loved by almost all users. While as someone there said’ I shot some H.265 gathering videos by Samsung NX1 4K camcorder and now I want to further editing them in Sony Vegas and then for a better enjoyment on VLC player on Windows with my family members. ‘Unsupported Error’ happened there. I think I have to ask for some help.’

Though H.265/HEVC can support 8K UHD with a resolution of 7680×4320 and it would become the best codec in the future. So how could we edit and play our videos with no difficulties? Again the Pavtube studio has brought us the good news! With the latest upgraded version, all windows programs can support the H.265/HEVC movies encode and decode. Thus in this page, efficient solutions are offered here to play your H.265 recordings on VLC player with Pavtube Video Converter for Windows.

Tips on converting Samsung NX1 H.265/HEVC videos to MP4 for playback on VLC:

Step 1. Download and install the program from the website, load your original 4K source in with ‘Add video’ directly drag files in is available.


Step 2.Choose the right output for VLC. As we mentioned above, we would like to introduce you to select the ‘HD Video’>>’H.264 HD Video(*.mp4)’ as your best choice. Surely you can choose other suitable ones as you like.


Step 3. Any interests in adjusting your output videos? Additionally in the ‘Edit’ button on the main interface, we can ‘Trim’, ‘Crop’ to decide the video length or something else there. Do you have any interests there to have a try?


Conclusion: Tap the ‘Convert’ on the main interface if you have done all the preparation work. This is the workflow that we need to transcode H.265 to H.264, which could make the original Samsung NX1 files accepted by popular media or editing devices. What’s more, let’s looking forward that the news of Mac products’ upgraded version coming soon!

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Friday, February 6, 2015

Issues: Importing MKV Files to Final Cut Pro 6/7

‘I've some videos in MKV extension and I'd like to edit some scene in final cut studio. Is it possible? How to make the workflow possible? Thanks in advance!’ 
As the beginning said, have you ever got the similar intention to import your MKV recordings in FCP for editing? If so, go through the article to get the best solution - transcoding MKV to Apple ProRes encoded MOV, an editable format that Final Cut Pro X (FCP) will work well on Mac OS X.


Point 1. Let’s find the causes of issues when editing MKV files in Final Cut Pro 6/7
Final Cut Pro is built from ground up for pro video editors, It makes video editing faster and better with motion graphics and file-based workflow, offers a new way to organize. While as the open video formats, it is not one of the supported video formats of Final Cut Pro. That may be the correct answer we cannot directly import MKV videos to FCP.

Point 2. Keys to remove the troubles of editing MKV footage in FCP 6/7
Since we have no good methods of nicely ingest MKV to FCP, why not we ask some video assistants for a help? Pavtube Video Converter for Mac (Windows version?)is such as easy-to-use and professional MKV to FCP Converter that can solve the problems for us. With excellent video quality and amazing conversion speed, it seems has a good reputation among our video editors. For example, someone there listed the process of playing MKV on QuickTime and iTunes we can take a good reference.

Point 3. How to convert MKV to Final Cut Pro on Mac step by step

Step 1.Click File -> Add Media Files button or drag and drop to add .mkv files from your computer. You can add many files and convert them at one time.


Step 2. Once the files have been selected it is necessary to choose the format that they need to be converted to. There is an option that allows you to select Final Cut Pro as the output format. ‘Final Cut Pro’>>’Apple ProRes 422 (*.mov)’ could be the best one.


Step 3.  Tap "settings" to customize the output parameters- adjust the video size, bitrates, frame rate, audio sample rate, audio channel, etc to get a decent video for editing in Final Cut Pro.

Finally, Click the "Convert" button to start encoding MKV to ProRes MOV for FCP right away. This conversion process will finish soon. Afterwards, click the Open button to locate the output files andimport to FCP 6/7 for editing smoothly.

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Wednesday, February 4, 2015

How to Convert MP4 to WMV for Windows Media Center

Though MP4, as the most common video formats that can be accepted by so many Windows media players, someone reflected there they have met some issues when playing MP4 movies on Windows Media Center. If it is true, how could we watch our MP4 movies on Windows Media Cemter?


Some problems you may meet when playing MP4 files in Windows Media Center:
  • ‘Up until recently I was able to play MP 4 video files in Windows media player 12 no problems at all but of late I get volume without any picture followed by an inevitable freeze. I then have to go to the task manager to stop it. It is OK at playing AVI files but I have resorted to using another player (VLC) for MP4.’
  • ‘Some screen errors often appeared there like ‘unsupported’ when I import my MP4 files in Windows Media Center.’
If you have come across the above issues when playing MP4 in Windows Media Center, don’t worry, follow our steps and you will get the best solutions. In fact, there are more ideas than the efficient ways I will mention below, but they often involve some codec issues which seems complicated to most users, right? Fortunetely, we have the clear professional MP4 Video Converter called Pavtube Video Converter for Windows. From MP4 to WMV, that’s the key point we can solve the problems. 

Notes: Not only converting incompatible videos for Windows Media Center, but also for other NLEs, such as FCP. Or upload MP4 movies to YouTube is also a good idea, right? What’s more, this video converter can support encoding and decoding the H.265/HEVC videos well. Do you wanna have a try?

Introductions of converting MP4 to WMV for watching on Windows Media Center:
Step 1. Free download the professional MP4 to MWV converter, open the main interface and click the ‘Add videos’ or ‘Add from folder’ to load our files in.


Step 2.In order to choose the best output videos for Windows Media Center. We suggest you to select the ‘WMV HD Video (*.wmv)’ in the ‘HD Video’ column.


Step 3. Would you like to add some subtitles in your output movies? Get into the ‘Edit’ button all of you can set the items like ‘Trim’, ‘Crop’ or ‘Subtitles’ etc. 

As soon as you have finished the video adjustments and other preparations work, why not go back to the main interface to hit the ‘Convert to get started? That’s the complete workflow we should follow in this article if you strongly got the idea of converting MP4 to WMV for enjoying on Windows Media Center.

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Monday, February 2, 2015

Work Avid DNxHD MXF Recordings with Premiere Pro CC

First of all, as we all know the different editing tools have their own supported video formats, so if you got the idea of moving footage from one to another, you may meet some troubles, right? For example, how to edit my Avid MXF footage in FCP? Today in this article, we talking on the issues of working Avid DNxHD MXF files with Premirere Pro CC. Do you wanna join us to have more details?



Tips: Some MXF video tips are allowed here you can take a close reference.

Cause there are so many users trapped in the related situation, we have searched online and found that the top point. Just convert the DNxHD MXF to MPEG-2 MPG, which can be the most suitable video format for Adobe Premiere Pro CC. So now the question is there any good choice for us to smoothly work this MXF to MPG workflow? Fortunately,  Pavtube iMixMXF---a professional Mac MXF converter for folks to edit in Premiere. What’s more, maybe you still don’t know this converter can offer the best three formats WMV, MPEG-2 and MOV, supported by Adobe Premiere Pro. For more details you can take this review.

Specific guide on converting DNxHD MXF to MPEG-2 MPG for editing in Premiere Pro CC: 

Firstly, load you MXF files in with ‘Add video’ or ‘Add from folder’ buttons. 



Secondly, come to the output list buy hitting the ‘Format’ bar there, drop down the list and we can choose ‘Adobe Premiere/Sony Vegas>>MPEG-2 (*.mpg)’ as the best output one there. Also, two other selections are available.



Thirdly, you can also do some settings through the ‘Settings’ button to adjust your output videos with a nice effect, Such as the video bitrates, frame rates, or even the audio channels. Why not have a try?


Finally, go back to the main interface if you have done the preparation work, click ‘Convert’ button, it’s time to start your conversion job. Such an easy job that everyone can do it well. Then transfer you files to Premiere Pro CC, just enjoying your editing work so nicely there!

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Friday, January 30, 2015

Tutorial: Get Sony HDR-AS100V XAVC S/MP4 into Avid Media Composer

In order to have smooth work with the Sony HDR-AS100V XAVC S footage. In this article, I will list specifics about a workflow of AS100V 50Mbps XAVC S codec through Avid Media Composer. What’s more would like to introduce you’re a professional XAVC S video converter to help you get out of the trouble in importing HDR-AS100V XAVC S/MP4 recordings to Avid Media Composer for further editing.


Attractive features of Sony HDR-AS100V camera:

Sony's Action Cam HDR-AS100V lets you shoot in rain or snow without using the bundled (and relatively bulky) waterproof case. Professional shooters can take advantage of new time-code support when editing XAVC S footage with Vegas Pro, making it easy to merge clips from the Action Cam with content from a variety of other cameras. While with the output footage encode by XAVC S and MP4 format, do you know the difference? 

What a pity that XAVC S files cannot be suitable for most NLEs:

According to the introduction above, if you wanna edit your AS100V XAVC files in FCPSony Vegas, etc or convert XAVC S to other common videos for other usage, some issues you will meet during the process there. Cause the XAVC-S format differs from XAVC in that it uses GOP codec of H.264/AVC for video file compression; it’s not an ideal editable format for NLE based on many users’ experience.

Pavtube Video Converter for Windows/Mac---best XAVC S video converter for users

To achieve the goal, Pavtube Video Converter for Windows/Mac is highly recommended here. The program is an easy-to-use yet professional Sony XAVC S Converter for Mac. It's able to convert XAVC S files from Sony HDR-AS100V to Mac fully compatible format and keep original quality at the mean while, this program can export the ‘DNxHD MOV’ especially for Avid Media Composer. What’s more, it can work well with all Mac and Windows operation systems.

Convert Sony HDR-AS100V XAVC S footage for Editing in Avid Media Composer.

Step 1: Install and launch the Windows XAVC-S Converter and load the recordings to it with ‘Add videos’ or ‘Add from folders’. If you want to merge several clips, just need to check the "Merge into one" box. 


Step 2. Follow our steps to come to the output list, here just drop down the column, we can easily find the suitable ones. ‘Avid Media Composer’>>’DNxHD (*.mov’) could be our best one.


Step 3. Click the “Settings” icon and you will go into a new interface. You can adjust codec, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate and audio channel in the interface according to your needs and optimize the output file quality. Here you can set the good settings for your output videos when editing in Avid MC.


Notes: If you have download the newest Windows version, with the attractive upgraded function, we can enjoying encoding and decoding the H.265/HEVC videos here, is that cool?

At the end of this page, if you have done all the preparation wok, why not hit the big button ‘Convert’ to start our job nicely? Just transfer your files into Avid MC, is this so easy for us to edit Sony HDR-AS100V XAVC S/MP4 footage in Avid Media Composer? Still more issues? Welcome to leave as the comments below!

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