Convert/Edit Sony PMW-500 MXF to FCP 6/7/X on Mac Mountain Lion/Lion/Snow Leopard

The PMW-500 is Sony’s first XDCAM HD422 camcorder with solid state recording and features three 2/3”-type 2.2-megapixel full-HD progressive CCDs. Additionally, it records and plays back high-definition video with 1920×1080 and 1280×720 resolutions up to 50Mbps using MPEG-2 4:2:2P HL compression technology. After shooting some footage on the Sony PMW 500, you may want to edit them in Final Cut Pro 6/7 or Final Cut Pro X. However, you may also face the problem that FCP 6/7 or FCP X does not recognize the .mxf videos.To make it easier for editing Sony PMW 500 MXF videos on FCP 6/7/X, you can use Sony MXF Video Converter for Mac, which was a great Mac Sony PMW 500 MXF Converter. It can not only convert Sony PMW 500 MXF .mxf videos to FCP 6/7/X, but also make iteasy for merge videos.



Here is the step-by-step guide for you to convert and transcode Sony PMW-500 MXF files to Apple ProRes 422 MOV for Final Cut Pro 6 /Final Cut Pro 7/Final Cut Pro X on iMac/MacBook Pro with Mac OS X like Snow Leopard, Lion, Mountain Lion now. Apple ProRes 422, H.264 MOV optimizes Final Cut Pro workflow for editing with no rendering.

Step 1. Download and Load Sony PMW 500 MXF footage to Sony MXF Video Converter for Mac.

Run Sony MXF Video Converter for Mac from UFUSoft as the 2012 best Sony MXF footage to MOV converter on Mac OS X like 10.8 Snow Leopard, 10.7 Lion, 10.6 Snow Leopard, 10.5 Leopard, 10.4 Tiger. Click the “Add” button to import .mxf files from the Sony PMW-500 camcorder.

Step 2. Choose Apple ProRes codec MOV for Final Cut Pro 6/7/X without rendering.

Click the “Format” option, choose the Final Cut Pro > Apple ProRes 422 video (*.mov) or HD video > HD MOV Video (*.mov) as output format. And navigate to the Final Cut Pro group, you will notice that there are profiles with Apple ProRes 422, Apple ProRes 422(HQ), Apple ProRes 422(LT), Apple ProRes 422(Proxy). Here we choose Apple ProRes 422(HQ) (*.mov) as output format. (The Apple ProRes 422 (Proxy) codec is intended for offline editing and contains 30 percent of the data rate of Apple ProRes 422, and I recommend you to select Apple ProRes 422(HQ), Apple ProRes 422(LT) MOV for outputting.)



Step 3. Merge Sony PMW-500 MXF files and Choose video size as original. (Optional)

Select all the files in the filelist, then click the Merge the Files, and the Mac Sony PMW 500 1920×1080 MXF converter will join and combine the video clips into a single file as output.

You can choose the clip on list and click the Properties button to view the source video resolution. To get the original video size, just click the “Settings” button and choose the right option like 1920*1080, 1080*720 from the video size drop-down box.

Step 4. Convert Sony PMW 500 MXF to Apple ProRes MOV for Final Cut without rendering.

Click the convert button under the preview window, the Mac MXF Video converter starts converting Sony PMW 500 MXF videos to Apple ProRes MOV, and joining the MXF files for editing in Final Cut Studio.

After converting and merging the MXF files, just import the output Apple PreRes 422 .mov files to Final Cut Pro X, Final Cut Pro 7 or Final Cut Pro 6 for editing and the video .Optimize your workflow and save time with the Apple ProRes compression for Final Cut Pro. You can also import the output videos to Final Cut Express (FCE) 4 for editing in full HD.

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Convert Sony PMW-320 MXF to AIC MOV for editing in iMovie 8/9/11

Summary:In this post, you can learn the best way and tools for importing and editing Sony PMW-320 MXF in iMovie 8/9/11.

Sony is pleased to announce the introduction of the new PMW-320 XDCAM EX Camcorder. This new shoulder mount camcorder joins the award-winning XDCAM EX product family of professional Solid State Recording acquisition tools. This new camcorder inherits all of the advanced creative recording features of the successful PMW-EX1, PMW-EX1R, PMW-EX3 and the PMW-350 camcorders, and also offers several enhancements such as improved low light capability as well as SD recording as a standard feature.

We all know that the recordings' format of Sony PMW-320 is the MXF which delivers stunning picture quality. However, if you want to deinterlace and edit Sony PMW-320 MXF in iMovie 8/9/11, you will meet some problems. The problems lie in that iMovie 8/9/11 cannot support the original MXF footages from PMW-320. It is a common sense that the most compatible format for iMovie 8/9/11 is Apple Intermediate Codec(AIC)(*.mov). So the first problem you have to solve is to deinterlace/transcode Sony PMW-320 MXF to AIC the most compatible codec which is specially designed for editing in iMovie 8/9/11.

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Steps for deinterlace Sony PMW-320 MXF clips to iMovie 8/9/11.

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Step 1: Install the top Sony MXF Converter for Mac on your Mac OS X, and run it to import your Sony PMW-320 1080p MXF footages to it. Tip: If you want to combine the files together, please tick the box "Merge into one" on the main interface.

Step 2: Click the Format box and select best output format on the dropdown list. You are advised to choose Apple Intermediate Codec(AIC)(*.mov) as the export.

Step 3: Click the “Settings” icon on the main interface and you’d better set the video size as 1920*1080, video frame rate as 30fps(or 25fps PAL) for importing Sony PMW-320 MXF to iMovie 8/9/11 with the best quality.

Step 4: Click the Arrow button on main interface to start converting/deinterlace Sony PMW-320 MXF clips to AIC video immediately.

After the Sony PMW-320 MXF to AIC converter finished transcoding, you can run the iMovie 8/9/11 to import the converted files and edit them in it without any rendering or incompatibility problem.

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Summary: With this awesome guide, you can smoothly import and edit Sony PMW-500 MXF files in Final Cut Pro 6/7/X by transcoding/converting PMW-500 MXF to ProRes MOV format.



We usually saw Sony PMW-500 Camcorder users encounter importing issues when attempting to edit their PMW-500 MXF files with Final Cut Pro 6/7 even FCP X. Let's see some frequently asked questions on this.

Q1: Importinig Sony PMW-500 .MXF to Final Cut
What plug-in do I need to install so i can import and edit .MXF video files in Final Cut. The suggestion of doing Log and Transfer doesn't work (the .MXF files are gray out not allowing me to select it.) [Final Cut Pro 7, Mac OS X (10.5.]

Q2: Support for Sony MXF from PMW-500 in FCP X?
How do I import .mxf files into Final Cut Pro X? This is the latests and greatests software right? There must be a way. Help Please.

Q3: MXF files into FCP 6
I'm interested in the new Sony PMW-500, but I'm still working on an Apple G5 with FCP 6.0.6. Is there an application, plug-in, etc. for the older FCP to take in MXF files? [G5, Mac OS X (10.4.11)]

As you see, many folks are talking about how to import Sony PMW-500 MXF files into Final Cut Pro for editing without problems. The thing is, even the lastest FCP X does not work with the Sony PMW-500 MXF codec. As far as I know, to ingest Sony PMW-500 media to Final Cut Pro 6/7/X for editing smoothly, the easy workaround is to transcode the MXF footage to ProRes MOV format, which is natively supported by FCP. Along with some help from a professional Mac MXF to MOV Converter. it can be done.

To help those who wanna edit Sony MXF files in Final Cut Pro X/7/6, here I share with you a simple guide to convert Sony PMW-500 MXF files to Apple ProRes 422 MOV format.

Downloading the App - Brorsoft MXF Converter for Mac

Overall, the program is a professional yet easy-to-use MXF to ProRes Converter on Mac OS X which can not only convert Sony PMW-500, PMW-320, Sony FS700 recorded MXF files to Apple ProRes codec videos for Mac editing, but also provide simple video editing functions for you. The mac MXF to MOV Converter can convert HD videos from Canon C300, XF100, XF105 and XF305, and Panasonic P2 for editing in Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Pro X, Final Cut Express, iMovie, Avid MC, Adobe Premiere Pro etc. Just download it and follow the tutorial below to achieve your goal smoothly.

Simple Guide: Transcoding Sony PMW-500 MXF files to Apple ProRes MOV for FCP 6/7/X



Step 1: Import MXF files from your Sony PMW-500 to the MXF to FCP Converter Mac.

Note: Before conversion, you need to transfer MXF files from your Sony PMW-500 to Mac Hard Drive, then click the "add files" button to browse to import MXF videos.

Step 2: Click the format bar, and move mouse cursor to "Final Cut Pro > Apple ProRes 422 (*.mov)" as output format.

Step 3: Click "Convert" button to start transcoding Sony PMW-500 mxf files to Apple ProRes MOV for Final Cut Pro 6/7/X under Mac OS.

Some more helpful features of the Free Mac MXF to MOV Converter:

1. Settings- click to set video resolution(1920×1080/1440×1080/1280×720/720×480), bitrate（from 1Mbps to 20Mbps）, frame rate (24p/30p)



2. Editor (next to "Add" icon)- click to set deinterlace, denoise, mute, volume up, trim, crop, etc.

Once the MXF to ProRes 422 conversion is done, you can transfer Sony PMW-500 MXF footage into Final Cut Pro 6/7/X for editing smoothly on Mac with ease.

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