Sony F5 XAVC footage in Premiere CS6

[Mark Mooney]

Still trying to find a way to convert the XAVC 1080p 29.97 files to prores 29.97 1080p. Resolve and other conversions only convert to Pro res 1080psf. This does not work with my media 100 . media 100 sees that as 1080i
Any suggestions .. please!!!
Thanks
Mark

[John Gurney]

Media Encoder works great. You may need to create your own preset depending on what flavor of ProRes you want to encode to.

[Keith Slavin]

Hi Mark,

If you still have trouble converting your file, you may want to check out isovideo’s 2013 NAB/IABM Game-Changer Award winning Viarte standards conversion/transcoding services at https://www.isovideo.com/services.php. We have a lot more control over conversion/transcoding process (quality, speed, formats, etc). We are also offering a generous free trial as well, if you are interested, please contact me at keith@isovideo.com.

Best

[Kazarian K-zar]

Justin, would you elaborate a little more for me on your comment? I use ffmpeg for encoding often enough. I am looking to get a Sony a7s, and am bummed to hear prem pro doesn’t support xavc s. so you’re saying you can take mxf files from the xavc and transcode them in ffmpeg? Is this going to help me with my Sony? I am also bummed to have to transcode all video files……..

Kazarian

[Kazarian K-zar]

Some things I found in my own searches. Hoping someone could help me back these theories up.

Handbrake is free, and i think it can handle xavcs.

Also possibly ffmpeg streamclip I think might handle it.

Someone else mentioned “media converter”, which I think I also recently acquired for fre……

For $35 you can get “xavc converter for (Mac)”, which I hear does the job well and is very flexible.

None of these theories have I tested personally, but I lok forward to trying it out soon.

Kzar

[A. Tad chamberlain]

K-zar…

I just came across this thread. I am currently on the verge of buying a Sony a7S and had the same concern about using/transcoding the XAVC-S video files in Premiere Pro (having moved to CS6 last summer after being on FCP 7 for years).

I’m curious to know which, if any, of those theories you mentioned ended up working best for you, and how you are liking the a7S.

Take care…

A. Tad Chamberlain
Festival Award-Winning Writer-Director
Emmy-Nominated Sound Mixer

[Black Jordan]

Premiere Pro CS6 will not natively support XAVC, but Adobe Premiere Pro CC, the latest version of Adobe Premiere Pro, has added support for this new camera format. If you stick with Premiere CS6, try to convert the XAVC codec to Premiere most compatible MPEG-2 codec using a third-party program.

I’ve had the pleasure of using the Video Converter for Mac (costs $27.96) to transcode the XAVC files from my F55 to work in my Premiere CS6 and FCP 7. You should give a try!

[Darren Edwards]

This is for Win 8.1/Premier CS6 owners.

I started working with XAVC today (Nov 2015) from a FS7 camera. Users are recommending the $300+ TotalCode, however, for free, I’m having some success with VLC’s inbuilt ‘Convert/Save’ option. Simple open the player > Media > Convert/Save > select file and you’ll find a load of codec options — that presumably replaces Handbrake that VLC are currently not working on.

The converted files still aren’t importing into Prem healthily yet but converting with H.264 will at least reduce the large slo-mo files into something emailable and/or uploadable to socials. Early days for me, but I hope this helps.

Darren.

https://www.youtube.com/user/darrenpce