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Saturday, October 11, 2014

Edit or Play Sony PXW-X70 XDCAM MXF in MOV, AVI, MPG, WMV, MP4

Do you want to convert Sony PXW-X70 XDCAM MXF to others for editing or playback, such as MOV,AVI, MPG, WMV or MP4



Have you ever got any MXF files and been confused in a further editing or playback? MXF, short form for Material exchange Format, is a container format (Like AVI) for professional digital video and audio media defined by a set of SMPTE standards. This kind of files are often recorded by some high definition cameras, such like Sony PXW-X70 series. As the example showed here:

‘Hello guys, I several days ago took some exciting challenge videos with my Sony PXW-X70 XDCAM camcorder. But I was refused to edit my footage in iMovie and get into MP4 Media Player for playback. How does it go wrong? Appreciate if there’s a big favor’

For many popular editing tools or media players, due to the limitation of MXF container format, it is not friendly to work well with them together. For some main common formats like MOV, AVI, MPG, WMV, MP4. After tried other plug-ins, Sony MXF converter may be the best choice for you.

How does Sony MXF Converter work for MOV, AVI, MPG, WMV, MP4, etc?

When you download the program, for the first step, load your files with ‘Add from folder’ and show the your wanted clips on the lift. Next, to keep the original high video quality, let’s go to the ‘HD Video’ in ‘Format’ list, such as H.264 HD Video(*.mp4), H.264 HD Video(*.mov), MPEG-2 HD Video(*.mpg), AVI HD Video(*.avi), choose one you like.


Additional speaking here, For those Windows users, if you get into the ‘Options’ item you may find the ‘Acceleration; icon. If there is an NVIDIA/AMD graphics card that supports CPU en-decoding acceleration installed on your computer, we suggest you select the H.264 MOV as target format because the CUDA and AMD APP acceleration only work when creating H.264 encoded video files.


Any other Functions?
Except for converting your MXF files, in this program, we can create 3D movies out of 2D sources and enjoy them at home with ‘3D video’ item too. What’s more, we can also freely select subtitle and audio tracks in ‘Editor’ interface. Get into the following interface as the picture to know more.


Welcome to give some other advices or opinions if you are satisfied with this paper on how to deal with Sony PXW-X70 MXF files. Thanks a lot!

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