Chris King
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If you recorded some videos by Panasonic GH4, you may like editing the 4K videos. Of course, Final Cut Pro, Avid Media Composer, iMovie, Adobe Premiere Pro are all your choices. But, we can’t import Panasonic GH4 4K to FCP/iMovie/Avid/Premiere Pro directly due to the codec incompatibility. Something else, there’s actually no way to edit a 4K project in FCP 7/iMovie/Avid natively. In this case, downscale 4K to 1080P is really necessary since 1080p would be the best settings. It will save you both time and trouble, and all you need is to drag the result videos for prompt editing. And it also brings easier 4K playback if you want to view the 4K videos on your TV or other media devices. You can google a professional 4K to 1080p converter to get the work done.
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Sony Vegas Pro supports H.264 natively although, like Adobe Premier, it is pretty picky with the codecs of what it’ll accept. As far as I know Sony Vegas Pro doesn’t like H.264 in an AVI container. If you want to import H.264 to Sony Vegas Pro flawlessly, I recommend you to convert H.264 to a more editable format for Vegas Pro.
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The M2TS file type is a compressed output format, but not ideal for editing in NLE system. To solve those problems, the quick workaround is to transcode M2TS files to Sony Vegas natively supported formats (MPG/MOV are highly recommended). During the process, it may cause a little loss but can ignore as I’ve tried it.
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When you wan to import the XAVC S videos from Sony A7S to Final Cut Pro 7 for editing the movies, you may find the high quality XAVC S files are not recognized by FCP.
The basic reason why we can’t work Sony A7S XVAC S with Final Cut Pro is that XAVC S codec is a new one, and is not widely supported. To make the XAVC S compatible with FCP, the easy workaround is to convert XAVC S to ProRes MOV, which ensures best results when using in Final Cut Pro 7.
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Nikon DSLR cameras are great for us to take photos and record MOV footages when we are travelling or spending holidays. If you have recorded some vivid videos with D4, D5100, D3200, etc, you may have the need to edit Nikon MOV footage in Sony Vegas Pro before sharing with others. However, the 1080p H.264 footage is not easy to be edited in Vegas Pro, it takes long time to render, and you can not edit Nikon H.264 MOV files in Vegas Pro smoothly.
*Personally I perfer a full HD AVCHD camera.
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I finally find two methods that can solve the problem.
Solution 1: Looking around Google results suggests I need a codec. Install the K Lite Codec Pack is a possible solution.
Note: I also found people blaming the codec saying K-Lite is that it blindly installs all kinds of components (not just codecs), many of which are not compatible with each other. And it does not uninstall cleanly. If don’t want to install a pile of codecs on your PC, try another approach.
Solution 2: There are more than one guys online recommend to convert MP4 to Sony Vegas Pro more edit-friendly video like MPEG-2.
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If you need to convert a bunch of 4K video files to ProRes422 1080p, here is a 4K video to ProRes Converter for you. It is able to batch process 4K videos like the most hot XACC/XAVC S files to Apple ProRes. You can either downsize 4K to 1080p or keep original 4K ultra HD resolution.
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If for whatever reason your card structure doesn’t come across intact, what can you do if you want to edit the corrupt C300 MXF on Mac OS X? As you know, Final Cut Pro and other NLE system need a correct card structure to read and ingest C300 MXF footage. In this case, transcoding MXF files to FCP (X) or other NLE natively compatible format in a 3rd party app is a feasible workaround.
Source: https://video-playback-tips.com/tag/how-to-fix-a-corrupt-c300-clips/ -
You can import & edit Nikon MOV in Adobe Premiere Pro smoothly. Nikon DSLR uses the sophisticated H.264 compression method for recording video files to the camera’s memory card. This is an ideal file type for video capture in an SLR camera, but not ideal for editing. The H.264 compression format should be transcoded into a format better suited to editing; this would usually be MPEG-2, which ensures maximum editing quality and efficiency when working with Premiere Pro CS4/CS5/CS6. So, the best method is to convert Nikon MOV to MPEG-2 before loading to Premiere Pro.
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The Z100 uses Sony’s XAVC recording format first employed in the PMW-F55 CineAlta 4K camera. MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 compression is used for HD (1920 x 1080), QFHD (3840 x 2016) and 4K (4096 x 2160) content. But the latest high definition XAVC video format introduced by Sony is still not supported well by Final Cut Pro so far, not only the 4K video. To edit Sony PXW-Z100 XAVC footage in Final Cut Pro 7 or FCP X/6 smoothly, a suggestion is convert Z100 4K XAVC to ProRes with a professional XAVC Converter for Mac. I found there are several XAVC file converters are available for us.