XAVC and Premiere Pro Workflow: Edit PXW-X180 XAVC in Premiere Pro
Summary: As a professional video editor, you may have to get your Sony PXW-X180 XAVC to some editing tools such as Premiere Pro CC, CS6/5/4 for a further dispose. On the other hand, this article also offers us a good way to work the XAVC/XAVC S recordings with other NLEs like Sony Vegas or Avid MC etc.
The latest addition to the Sony XDCAM Series. With Sony PXW-X180, you can record Full HD clips in XAVC format. As many users get Sony X180, more problems are coming up: some of them have the need to import Sony PXW-X180 XAVC to Premiere Pro, Avid, FCP, iMovie for editing on Mac OS X, but they always meet some issues. This article is mainly to solve the Sony PXW-X180 recordings to Adobe Premiere Pro importing issues.
How can we handle XAVC well with Adobe Premiere Pro?
Meanwhile, do you guys know XAVC is the opening format which is also produced by Sony? However, XAVC is not the preferred format by Non-Linear Editing system(NLE) Adobe Premiere, FCP, iMovie, FCE included. So how to avoid this problem has become the top issues. Fortunately, for now I can share the XAVC to Premiere Pro Converter for Mac ( Pavtube HD Video Converter for Mac ) /Windows with all you Sony fans.
How to Losslessly Convert Sony XAVC to Premiere Pro on Mac
As common sense, we should download and install the program in a correct way. 'Add video' or 'Add from folder' could help you a lot in loading files. Then if you drop down the output list, you can find three best items from 'Adobe Premiere Pro/Sony Vegas'>>'WMV (VC-1)(*.wmv), MOV(AVC)(*.mov) or MPEG-2 (*.mpg). Each one you can select as the best for Premiere Pro CC or CS 6/5/4.
Set proper video/ audio parameters. Click the Settings button and set proper video/ audio parameters. You can reset set the video size, bitrates and fame rate. If you would like to use default settings, simply skip this step. If you get all the preparation done, just tap the 'Convert' icon to start.
