Thursday, April 23, 2015

How to Edit Nikon 1 J5 4K/60p Videos in DaVinci Resolve

For all Nikon fans or other camcorder lovers, if you guys have related issues of editing Nikon 1 J5 4K/60p videos in DaVinci Resolve, just read the post below, we can get the answers to the Nikon 1 J5 video workflow. In this case, it is not hard for us to import the Nikon 1 J5 4K videos to DaVinci Resolve for editing.


Videography features of the Nikon 1 J5 include: 
  • Resolutions: 4K (15p), 1920 x 1080 (60p, 30p), 1280 x 720 (120p/60p/30p)
  • Format: MPEG-4, H.264
  • Videography notes: Slow motion: 1280 x 720 (120 fps), 800 x 296 (400 fps), 400 x 144 (1200 fps)
  • Microphone: Stereo
  • Speaker: Mono
Issues we may meet when importing Nikon 1 J5 videos to DaVinci Resolve:
‘Last Sunday, I shot some videos about camping and playing games on grass outside with my family members you know. I shot the footage with my Nikon 1 J5 4K camcorder, it is has the nice image effects and stable capability. But some ‘errors’ turned out there when loading them to DaVinci Resolve for editing. Any useful workflow there I can take as best solutions?’

Any best third-party program to convert Nikon 4K videos to DaVinci Resolve?
To solve the problem of importing Nikon 4K MOV videos to DaVinci Resolve, you need to convert Nikon 1 J5 4K MOV to DNxHD MOV, which could be the best codec for DaVinci Resolve for editing. Here the Pavtube HD Video Converter for Mac is highly recommended to be the best assistant. 

What can this professional 4K to DaVinci Resolve converter do?
The program can effortlessly encode/re-encode 4K H.264(MOV/MP4), XAVC, XAVC S, etc footage for smoothly importing and editing in various non-linear editing systems (NLE), including iMovieAdobe Premiere ProFinal Cut Pro, and more. Keep reading for a brief how-to on the simple process, which guaranteed to import your Nikon 1 J5 MOV to iMovie for smoothly editing.

Steps on converting Nikon J5 4K to DaVinci Resolve for editing:
Step 1. Load Nikon 1 J5 videos. Run the program you just set up. You can hit ‘Add Files’ button to import the Full HD or 4K .mov video files from 1 J5 camcorder or hard drive to the converter.


Step 2. Hit Format bar to select output format. You can choose Avid Media Composer > Avid DNxHD(*.mov) as output format. It is an ideal editing format for Resolve. Of course, you can also click "Common Video" > "MOV - QuickTime (*.MOV)" as the target format.


Tip: In case the default settings do not fit your requirement, you can click "Settings" button and enter "Profile Settings" panel to adjust video size, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate and audio channels.

Finally, click Convert button to start transcoding Nikon 4K videos to DNxHD for DaVinci Resolve immediately. Once the conversion completes, you can click "Open" to find the output videos which can be directly imported to DaVinci Resolve. You've done. Now you can import and edit Nikon 1 J5 4K files in DaVinci Resolve without any issues.

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Monday, April 20, 2015

Play Canon C300 MXF Files with VLC on Yosemite/Windows 10

‘Need help. I shot a project with the Canon C300 in 24p mode. I uploaded the files on my hard drive, the raw files works wrong with the VLC player, any suggestions to fix the problems? I just wanna playback my C300 mxf recordings on VLC on Yosemite/Windows 10’


Are you worrying about the related questions of importing Canon C300 MXF files to any other media players for playback on Yosemite or Windows 10? Due to the limitation between different media devices supported video formats, we are seeking the easiest and convenient way to play MXF videos nicely on VLC media player. So which one could be the most suitable answer to convert the original MXF clips? We exactly need some MXF tips.

Hot Search: MXF to PC/Mac | MXF to Sony Vegas | MXF to YouTube

Frankly speaking, if you have tried some other third-party MXF plug-ins for media devices, you sometimes may be confused with the unstable capability and incomplete structure, right? Here the professional MXF to VLC assistant---Pavtube MXF Converter for Windows/Mac can be the best converting tool for us. It has a good reputation online which can transcode MXF files to any other formats, of course the VLC best supported format MP4, MOV, etc are included. More than a professional MXF converter, it can also edit and adjust the video/audio parameters for output ones.

How to transcode MXF to MP4/MOV for playback with VLC media player on Yosemite/Windows 10?

Step 1.Install and launch this best MXF to VLC Converter; click the ‘Add files’ button to import the MXF files to the converter. It’s also not a bad idea to drag the original files in.


Step 2. Choose the right one for Click on the dropdown menu of ‘Format’ bar and select the ‘HD Video’>>’H.264 HD Video (*.mp4)’ as target format. Of course you can choose suitable ones for VLC media player, such as the ‘HD Video (*.mov)’. 


Functional Tips: 
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?


At the end, cclick the ‘Convert’ on the main interface if you have done all the preparation work. So are you still now trapped in the issues when importing MXF files to VLC media player? Just add the files to your VLC, and you can play the converted MXF on VLC easily without any issues on Yosemite and Windows 10.

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Thursday, April 16, 2015

How to: Enjoy 3D Videos on Gear VR

Do you wanna watch your favorite 3D movies on Gear VR? With the hotter and hotter popularity of 3D movies, we all would like to enjoy the amazing 3D effects. While with the Gear VR limited formats, we here are going to teach you how to make all 3D videos accepted by Gear TV. With some easy steps, we can watch all 3D movies on Gear VR.


The Samsung Gear VR has plenty of potential, but it is limited by a sparse content store out of the box. The positive is that Samsung and Oculus have made it easy to import and watch your own movies (even 3D) in virtual cinema mode. So how do we accomplish this? The short answer is to import your movie files (the Gear VR by default supports most common file formats including MP4, AVI, and FLV) into the “My Videos” folder on your SD card. So here the trouble comes, how could we add those incompatible 3D movies to Gear VR for playback?

Hot Search: 3D MTS to YouTube | 3D to Galaxy Note | 3D to Smartphone

Is there any good 3D video converter which can convert the video formats with the 3D effects preserved? Pavtube Video Converter for Windows (Mac version) is the great tool can easily help you convert various 3D movie to Samsung Gear VR unit/Oculus video format as Anaglyph 3D MP4/MKV/MOV at super fast speed with the NVIDIA CUDA and AMD APP (ATI Stream) acceleration support. Also, for the common videos conversion, it can do well. Just follow the steps and you will know how to easily enjoy the 3D movies on Gear VR.

Guide on converting incompatible 3D movies for playback on Gear VR:
Step 1. After installing the program on your PC, just click “Add Video” button on the main interface to load your 3D Movie files to the program. (Drag & Drop function is included.) 



Step 2. Choose the suitable output format. If you just wanna rip the 3D movie files to your Gear VR, you can choose the “3D Video > MP4 Side-by-Side 3D Video(*.mp4)”. For more choices, we can just drop down the list and find more items there.


Step 3. Adjust conversion specs and 3D effect (Optional). Adjust the video and audio parameters including the Bitrate of Video&Audio, Video Size, Sample Rate, Frame Rate, Audio Channels, etc., by clicking the “Settings” button on the main interface for getting the best quality.

Now back to the main interface and hit "Convert" to start the conversion. Wait for moments till the conversion completed, then click "Open output folder" to quick locate converted SBS 3D MP4 videos, then, you can transfer the converted video files on your Samsung Gear VR for enjoy your fantastic 2D or 3D movies with 3D effects on Gear VR at anytime as you want. 

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Tuesday, April 14, 2015

MXF to MOV---Convert Canon XC10 XF-AVC 4K MXF to MOV with Multi-tracks

To make Canon XC10 XF-AVC MXF footage edited or played well on PC and Mac, we need to convert the 4K MXF to common MOV or with multi-tracks preserved. Do you have any related issues with that? This post will show you an quick guide on rewrapping Canon XC10 4K MXF files for Windows and Mac in common MOV.


What videos can Canon XC10 4K camcorder shoot and bring to us?
Canon has recently announced the development of XF-AVC, a new proprietary video format for the efficient recording of high-image-quality 4K, 2K and HD video footage. On the other hand, Canon XC10 uses XF-AVC movie recording format, employs the MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 video compression format, and stores shootings in an MXF wrapper, which seems not so compatible for Windows and Mac. What’s the useful MXF tips? s examples below.

‘Hey it’s so cool I got the latest Canon 4K camcorder---XC10 XF-AVC as soon as it released out. You know it is indeed can shoot the videos with higher resolutions and flexible personal settings, I love it so much. But it always tells me the ‘errors’ when I import them on Mac. Why these MXF recordings cannot be added to PC? I’m now seeking a professional video transcoder to convert the files nicely.’

Hot Search: MXF to VLC | MXF to WMP | MXF to Sony Vegas | MXF to QuickTime | MXF to iMovie

How to rewrap Canon XC10 XF-AVC MXF footage to MOV for PC/Mac?
Pavtube iMixMXF/MXF MultiMixer can convert all the original MXF videos to any others formats with multi-track audios for both Windows/Mac users. As the professional MXF importer, transcoder or editor, it can do all work well for MXF files. Of course including the workflow of converting Canon XC10 XF-AVC MXF files to common MOV or multi-track MOV on PC/Mac. What’s more, so many output media players and editing tools are also listed there for other choices. More converting details are listed below.

Easiest guide on converting Canon XC10 XF-AVC MXF to MOV on PC/Mac:
Step 1: Start up multi-track MXF Video Converter as a professional Canon XC10 MXF Converter for Windows/Mac. When its main interface pops up, click ‘Add File’ to input your source media. Directly drag files in is also available.


Step 2. Select suitable MOV as you need for Windows/Mac. If you are seeking the common ones, just go to the ‘HD Video’ to find the MOV as the output. While for those advanced users who wanna trancode the MXF files with multi-tracks preserved, we suggest you to choose the ‘Multi-track Video’>>’Multi-track MOV (*.mov)’ as the best one.


Step 3: Custom 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. 


When you get ready for all preparation work, click ‘Convert’ to start format conversion. As soon as the conversion is complete, you can click ‘Open Folder’ button to get the exported MOV files for Window/Mac. No matter for editing or playing your Canon XC10 XF-AVC MXF recordings, this program will not make us disappointed.

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Monday, April 13, 2015

MXF to VLC: Canon C300 MXF to VLC on Yosemite/Windows 10

With the new Windows 10 and Mac Yosemite, are you now worrying about troubles if we can smoothly watch MXF recordings on VLC media player from Canon C300? Just take it easy, we are now having a discussion on how to remove the troubles of watching Canon C300 MXF recordings on VLC media player no matter on Yosemite or Windows 10.



VLC Media Player is a lightweight media utility that won't use a lot of your computer's available system resources while playing video files. MXF format is one of the supported file types of VLC, so once you have VLC Media Player installed on your computer just drag your MXF file over top of the main program window to get it to play. Unfortunately you may get some troubles when directly importing MXF footage to VLC such like ‘errors’ or ‘unsupported files’. So any MXF tips there?

Hot Search: H.265 to VLC | XAVC to VLC | ACVHD to VLC 

“I can play the MXF files from my Canon C300 in VLC, but the audio is choppy or non-existant…The video plays without a hitch. But no audio. Any fixes for this problem, or am I the only one?”

What should we do to solve such problems above? In other words, how could we open MXF files on VLC media player? Well, just cast aside VLC and turn to Pavtube MXF Converter for Windows/Mac, which can help you convert MXF to all popular video formats like MP4, MOV, WMV, AVI, FLV, etc. Besides, the built-in editor allows you to trim, crop, adjustment video effect, etc. to get the best overall video effects. Even for the latest operation Windows 10 and Mac Yosemite, it can do this job well. 

Steps on converting MXF files for playback on VLC media player:
Install and launch this best MXF to VLC Converter; click the ‘Add files’ button to import the MXF files to the converter. It’s also not a bad idea to drag the original files in.


Click on the dropdown menu of ‘Format’ bar and select the ‘HD Video’>>’H.264 HD Video (*.mp4)’ as target format. Of course you can choose suitable ones for VLC media player.


Functional Tips: 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. So are you still now trapped in the issues when importing MXF files to VLC media player? Just add the files to your VLC, and you can play the converted MXF on VLC easily without any issues on Yosemite and Windows 10.

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Thursday, April 9, 2015

How to Add VOB to iTunes on Mac?

As a container format in DVD-Video media, VOB contains the actual Video, Audio, Subtitle, and Menu contents. While there are so many VOB related questions mentioned online. For example: ‘Errors why we often meet when import VOB files from DVD media folder to iTunes on Mac?’ Today here we are suggested to introduce the best way for adding VOB to iTunes on Mac successfully.


Suggestions on why and how convert VOB files to iTunes on Mac:
VOB is based on MPEG-2 program stream format, but with additional limitations and specifications. At present, its playback on applications and devices is quite limited: only VLC, Mplayer such universal players, or Windows Media Player (but not in Windows 8) and the regular DVD players. If you get used to the iTunes feature and want to import your VOB files to iTunes, there is also a smart solution: converting your VOB files to iTunes friendly format, i.e. M4V, MOV or MP4.

External Search: VOB to New iPad   MPG to iTunes   iTunes to WD TV

Get the best VOB to iTunes converter for Mac to work well with VOB files
In order to add VOB to iTunes for Mac, you need use a .vob converter to encode videos and create iTunes compatible files (MP4, QuickTime MOV, and M4V) prior to transferring. There are several converters in the market and one of our favorite cames out pretty good---Pavtube Video Converter for Mac, it converts everything to everything smoothly, including VOB to iTunes, and produce high-quality video. Besides, The program has a good range of pre-configured options to convert videos with the correct resolution for the popular device. Why not free download it and have a try?

Necessary process of converting VOB files to iTunes:
Step 1.Launch the converter, the program is light on system resources with a basically empty and easy to use interface. Click "Add File" button to locate the VOB files into the software.


Step 2. Next, choose your preferred format for conversion. iTunes by default supports MP4, MOV, M4V video format. When you come to the output list, we here highly suggest you to choose the ‘HD Video’>>’H.264 HD Video (*.mp4)’ as the typical one/


For advanced functions?
Click the “Effect” button to open the Video Edit window to achieve editing MP4 like trim, crop, image, watermark, effect, subtitles and rotate and etc in the corresponding editing pane.
Click the “Setting…” button to open the Advanced Settings window to adjust the output video codec, resolution, bitrates, frame rate, aspect ratio, audio codec, channel, volume and etc in the advanced tab.


Now that you've got everything set up how you want, to start converting files from VOB to iTunes compatible files, simply press the "Convert" button to begin the encoding. You'll see an increased percentage of the track in a blue status bar. When Total Progress shows 100%, you will have compatible version of your video(s) for iTunes, just drag them into your iTunes library and have a fun!

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Thursday, April 2, 2015

MP4 to WMM: Add MP4 Files to Windows Movie Maker for Playback

Why there’s always something wrong appeared when I import MP4 recordings to Windows Movie Maker? Isn’t it true that Windows Movie Maker can support the MP4? Just be easy, this article is written to help you add MP4 files to Windows Movie Maker after converting MP4 to WMV with a nice workflow.



Every time when you import MP4 to Windows Movie Maker or Windows Live Movie Maker, it stops working? Your Windows Movie Maker even can't recognize your MP4 files? These are the common problems encountered by many Windows Movie Maker users. So what did this situation happen? Besides the best supported video formats for Windows Movie Maker that it would refuse some other incompatible formats.

Consideration 1. The ability to open MP4 files in Movie Maker is partially dependent on the operating system your computer is running.
Consideration 2. Another consideration if you have difficulty opening this file format is DRM protection. Finally, you may have difficulty getting the MP4 file to play if the file contains AAC audio.

Hot search: MTS to WMM  XAVC to WMM  Edit Files in WMM

According to the situations we analysis above, do you wanna remove those incompatible format troubles of adding MP4 to Windows Movie Maker. So you need to convert MP4 to Windows Movie Maker compatible format like WMV before importing. Actually, it's not as difficult as you imagine. What's need is a just a common video converter like Pavtube Video Converter for Windows. It supports creating high quality WMV video for your Windows Movie Maker, no matter what's the format of your source video files. It can convert almost any video to WMV so you can import your video to Windows Movie Maker for editing.

Guide on converting MP4 to WMV for watching on Windows Movie Maker freely:
First download and install this MP4 to WMM Video Converter. When complete, start Video Converter from Start menu or Windows desktop. ‘Add files’ button on the main interface we can click to load our files.



Click the format icon on the right to open the format list, and select ‘WMV’ as the output format from ‘HD Video”>>’WMV HD Video (*.wmv)’ as the suitable one.



For advanced functions?
Click the “Effect” button to open the Video Edit window to achieve editing MP4 like trim, crop, image, watermark, effect, subtitles and rotate and etc in the corresponding editing pane.
Click the “Setting…” button to open the Advanced Settings window to adjust the output video codec, resolution, bitrates, frame rate, aspect ratio, audio codec, channel, volume and etc in the advanced tab.

Finally, let’s go back to the main interface to hit the ‘Convert’ to start the conversion work. After transferring files into Windows Movie Maker, we are glad to tell you that you have successfully enjoy the MP4 files in Windows Movie Maker. Good luck with you!

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