Chris King
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Old post although I found the DivX is still not compatible with the latest version Adobe Premiere Pro. The basic reason is that DivX is a very heavily-compressed, delivery-only format, designed for decent quality, small file size, streaming media. For that sole purpose, they do a good job. They are NOT designed to be edited. To work with DivX files in Adobe Premiere Pro, you need to firstly convert DivX to Adobe Premiere Pro compatible file type.
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You may get some DivX files and need to add these DivX files to Final Cut Pro for editing on Mac. However, when you’re trying to import the DivX video, you only to find that the files are not supported by Final Cut Pro(even the latest FCP X). Here you are recommended to convert DivX to ProRes, which are highly compatible with Final Cut Pro.
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Old post although, I had something to share here. If you have a Panasonic DVCPRO P2 camcorder, you may want to edit Panasonic DVCPRO P2 MXF files in Sony Vegas Pro, though latest Vegas added many new features, it can’t support P2 MXF footages well still. For us, it’s a bit hard to handle MXF clips for playing and editing. If you are struggling to find a best workflow for Panasonic P2 and Sony Vegas, you can refer to the Importing P2 MXF to Sony Vegas tutorial.
By the way, you should find the MXF video from one MXF whole structure folder, here I take my P2-dvcpro25 as an example: double click the P2-dvcpro25> CONTENTS> VIDEO, and then you can find the MXF file.
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It is possible to use H.264 in Final Cut Pro (X) sometimes, but don’t expect it to result in top quality. H.264 is highly compressed. That’s not where you want to start with editing for high quality results. Something even worse, some H.264 footage like from GoPro HD(.mp4), Canon EOS(.mov) can’t be recognized by Final Cut program. A suggestion is to use a Mac video converter to transcode all H.264 files to Apple ProRes for FCP.
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As we know VOB such a kind of video file usually contains one or several audio tracks and subtitle tracks that are multiplexed together into one stream form. It is not the ideal format for editing purpose. A workable way I’ve used to convert VOB to ProRes 422, 4444 is using a professional ProRes codec converter.
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If you try the log and transfer or the Canon XF plug, none worked. You can try a paid MXF converter to convert MXF to ProRes on Mavericks for using in your FCP 7. It saves time and effort. That’s way I put my MXF files to FCP 7. By the way, I’ve update my FCP 7 to FCP X, some issues still exist there.
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AVI is compressed video formats which contains both audio and video data in a file container that allows synchronous audio-with-video playback. While, AVI is known to be the most unfriendly video format across Apple Mac system. You may always fail to import AVI to Final Cut Pro or other popular editing programs on Mac OS X.
So if you want to enhance the shot digital cameras AVI videos or AVI videos downloaded from Internet with Final Cut Pro, you can convert AVI to ProRes in order to edit AVI with Final Cut Pro X with the natively supported codec. Search a fast video app from market.
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I’ve been researching possible workflows for Canon C500 and Avid Media Composer. As you know, Canon C500 is an awesome camcorder. With it you can shot videos with Canon’s XF Codec -a file-based MPEG-2 compression with an MXF File Wrapper. Since MXF is not a good editing format for NLE system including Avid Media Composer. If you make the recordings editable before taking to the Avid Media Composer program, the incompatible error won’t happen any more. Link to the tutorial Solve Canon C500 and Avid incompatible issues to find the best mxf transcoding program and the step-by-step instruction.
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To import DVD to Final Cut Pro (X) for further editing, you’ll be disappointed since Final Cut Pro only accepts DV, HDV, P2 MXF (DVCProHD), XDCAM, and 2K film formats. To add DVD films into FCP, the easy workaround is to convert DVD to Final Cut Pro natively supported ProRes codecs . And you can achieve your goal smoothly with a professional Mac DVD to ProRes Converter.
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From the https://pro.sony.com/bbsccms/assets/files/show/highend/pdf/4K_Workflow_Guide.pdf
I got the info that HD & 4K XAVC files can only be natively supported by Final Cut Pro –X. That means FCP 7 can’t handle XAVC files directly. There are two options for you:Upgrade FCP 7 to FCP X; Convert F5 XVAC to ProRes(What I need to do further searching is that if FCP 7 can work 4K ProRes beautifully).