Recently, more and more people are concerned about this Sony’s new camcorder Sony PXW-X400, the PXWX400 offers stunning imaging performance up to 1080/60p, optimized weight balance and ergonomics, and new networking features that enable field-to-air flexibility like never before.
The highlight of the Sony PXW-X400 is that Full HD XAVC-L 50p and 59.94p operations Supports variety of formats including XAVC at 50p and 59.94p. The PXWX400KF camcorder kit is supplied with a16x auto focus zoom lens, 3.5-inch LCD CBKVF02 viewfinder, and stereo shotgun microphone. And the auto focus function is planned to be available June 2016 via free firmware upgrade. With it, you can capture videos in XAVC-L recording Codecs with high quality. However, many folks are having problems when importing Sony PXW-X400 XAVC-L MXF footage to Premiere Pro CC or CS6.
Issue on importing PXW-X400 XAVC-L MXF into Premiere Pro
Q1: I have some Sony PXW-X400 XAVC-L MXF footage which is crashing Premiere CC. I have installed the latest Premiere Pro, however it doesn’t work well at all. How can I import my Sony PXW-X400 XAVC-L MXF files into Premiere Pro for smoothly editing?
Q2: Hi, guys! I can’t get my Premiere Pro CS6 to recognize the XAVC-L MXF files from our Sony PXW-X400. I get the “generic error” message all the time. Can Premiere Pro support XAVC-L MXF footage, if not, which format should I encode to for better editing Sony PXW-X400 XAVC-L MXF files in Premiere Pro?
According to Premiere Pro official website and some users experience, the most compatible editing format for Premiere Pro CC is H.264 MOV format. So If you are also stuck in the trouble to import XAVC-L MXFclips from Sony PXW-X400 to Adobe Premiere Pro, you can also try the workaround I share below. A quick and easy solution is to transcode XAVC-L MXF footage to H.264 MOV by a third-party software, at currently, there are many programs on the market which enables you to done the conversion from XAVC L to H.264 MOV, but some converter does not guarantee a good quality of the video conversion. Here, the MXF Converter is best choice for you to convert Sony PXW-X400 XAVC-L footage to Premiere Pro CC. Acrok MXF Converter is incredible simple to use application for you to directly convert Sony PXW-X400 XAVC-L MXF footage to Adobe Premiere optimized format with default parameters.
Free download the Sony PXW-X400 Video Converter
How to transcode Sony PXW-X400 XAVC-L MXF videos to H.264 MOV for Premiere Pro?
1. Add XAVC-L MXF files > Run the program you just set up. Drag and drop the XAVC-L MXF footage from Sony PXW-X400 to the Converter. You can also hit “Add files” button to import videos to the best Acrok MXF Converter.
2. Choose output format for Premiere Pro > Click “Format” bar and choose “Editing Software” > “Adobe Premiere/Sony Vegas MOV (AVC)(*.mov)” as output format for editing Sony PXW-X400 XAVC-L MXF files in Adobe program with natively supported video codec.
3. Edit MXF video > Click “Edit” button and go to “Effect” tab to add video effects if you’d like to make your MXF videos via Gray or “Old Film”.
4. Start converting XAVC-L to Premiere Pro > Click the “convert” button of the best XAVC-L to Premiere Pro Converter, it will start converting XAVC-L MXF to H.264 MOV for importing to Adobe Premiere Pro immediately. Soon after the conversion, just click “Open” button to get the output files for natively editing in Premiere Pro CC or Premiere Pro CS6 perfectly.
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