Final Cut Express 4 is familiar editing software for us, which is the consumer version of Final Cut Pro and is designed for advanced editing of digital video as well as high-definition video, and used by many amateur and professional videographers. Generally considered that Final Cut Express 4 is a step underneath Final Cut Pro, but a step above iMovie in terms of capabilities.

FCE 4 supports various of formats, including most DV25-format camcorders and decks: MiniDV and DVCAM; most HDV-format camcorders and decks: 720p, 1080i; most AVCHD-format camcorders and decks: 720p, 1080i; FireWire device control of most FireWire-equipped MiniDV camcorders from such leading manufacturers as Sony, Canon, Panasonic, and JVC.

Apple Intermediate codec is one of the apple built-in codecs, while others could be Apple DV/DVCPRO – NTSC, DVCPRO50 – NTSC. Pavtube Video Converter for Mac is the recommended camcorder software to convert AVCHD to apple compatible formats. iMovie 8/9, Final Cut Pro/FCP7 are also compatible with AIC for editing. (more…)

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How to get Avid Media Composer work with AVCHD files flawlessly on the Mac?

Question: How to import AVCHD to Avid?

On Wednsday, I’m going to start filming my short film. I was originally going to use Final Cut Pro, but now that I have learned Avid, I think I have enough confidence to edit a short film with Avid. The problem is… I’ve never edited AVCHD before.

So my question is, how would I go about bringing the AVCHD files from the SD card into Avid to edit? I know these files aren’t directly editable. We will be using a Sony HDR-SR11 by the way.

Along with the DVD-recording HDR-UX1, the SR1 compresses video in AVCHD, the new high definition format that, for the first time, allows consumers to leave tape behind. However the fact is that there is few even no 3rd party support is yet available for editing. Accroding to my experience, Avid Media Composer doesn’t work with well with the SR1 AVCHD files. And the highly-compressed content are not so friendly for almost all editing softwares. How to get Avid Media Composer work perfectly with AVCHD footage? A best way is to convert the AVCHD files to QT MOV, something that Avide MC supports along with some help from the third-party tool. (more…)

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Transcode HD MTS/M2TS/ MOV/ MOD/TOD/MXF into FCP for editing

HD camcorders (E.g. Sony Handycam series, Panasonic Lumix line, Canon Vixia and EOS cams) usually take MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 codec for saving video contents. The MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 codec, to some extent, is a delivery codec and not editable one. Wanna import and edit the HD MTS/M2TS/ MOV/ MOD/TOD/MXF in FCP? Convert the files into Final Cut Pro friendly codec first. As to the best codec for FCP editing, Apple ProRes 422 and Apple Intermediate Codec should be the top two codec packs. The following guide is written to help you out of such kind of importing errors.

Required software: Pavtube HD Video Converter for Mac About the software: This Mac HD Video Converter deals with HD shootings in file extensions of (*.mts, *.m2ts, *.mov, *.mxf, *.mod, *.tod, *.avi, *.mp4) taken with Sony, Panasonic, JVC and various other camcorders. The HD Video Converter exports FCP friendly codecs including Apple ProRes family (ProRes 422, ProRes 422 LT, ProRes 422 HQ, ProRes 422 Proxy, ProRes 4444), DVCPRO, HDV, Apple Intermediate codec, etc for Final Cut Pro post-production. You may download a trial of HD Video Converter for Mac software to try it out. Notice that the trial version puts a Pavtube logo on the screen.

Detailed guide of transcoding HD MTS/M2TS/MOV/ MOD/TOD/MXF to Apple ProRes 422/Apple Intermediate codec for Final Cut Pro:

1. Run the HD Video to FCP Converter for Mac. Click “Add” button and browse to the HD footages either from scratch disk or cam HDD for loading to the converter. If your source is MXF contents from P2 card, copy the MXF files to Mac hard disk first.

2. Click on “Format” bar and follow “Final Cut Pro” template to set a FCP friendly format. For Full HD 1080p AVCHD files, you are advised to Follow “Final Cut Pro” template and “Apple ProRes 422 (*.mov)” format. If you prefer smaller file size, choose “Apple ProRes 422 (LT) (*.mov)” instead. The “Apple ProRes 422 (Proxy) (*.mov)” format offers file size at SD levels and is recommended for 480i/p and 576i/p shootings. The “Apple ProRes 4444(*.mov)”
creates videos in lossless quality at huge file size, and is not recommended for home video making.

3. Click the “Settings” button and customize proper video/ audio parameters if necessary. Video size, bitrate and fame rate are flexible and can be adjusted as you like. E.g. Set video size to 1920*1080 when you feel like to keep 1080p as the source file features. Or set smaller bitrate to further cut down export file size. You may skip this step as well.

4. Click “Browse” button to set a location on your HDD for the output video file. Make sure there are enough disk space for saving generated files.

5. Click “Convert” to start transferring HD MTS/M2TS/ MOV/ MOD/TOD/MXF to Apple ProRes 422 codec. The conversion process may take long time due to huge file size but trust me– this Mac HD Video to FCP Converter is faster than most other video converter tools. After conversion just click the “Open” button to locate converted video files for importing to FCP. As Apple ProRes codecs are natively supported by FCP, the rendering time is saved as well.

Tip 1: AVCHD has a much higher compression ratio than Apple ProRes, so the ingested files are significantly larger than the original files. For example, a 2-minute native AVCHD file is about 200–300 MB. After transcoding to the Apple ProRes 422 codec, the file size can be as large as 2 GB.

Tip 2: Pavtube iMedia Converter for Mac

converts HD MTS/M2TS/ MOV/ MOD/TOD/MXF videos, common videos, DVD, and Blu-ray Disc to Apple ProRes 422 codec for Final Cut Pro and to MP4, MOV, M4V videos for QuickTime player, iTunes, iPad, iPhone, iPod, etc.

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Why we love the Canon PowerShot S95? Particularly because it not only delivers spectacular photos, but also lets you record video in beautiful high definition (1280 x 720 pixels). The camera also makes it easy to enjoy HD videos and still photos on your HDTV. It’s great that the Canon S95 can shoot in 720 HD but when loading the H.264/MOV videos for editing, many new users get involved in issues like load error and momentary glitch. This is because the HD MOV clips are encoded in H.264 codec, a most advanced codec that compresses video in highest compression ratio, but not so acceptable for editing software such as Magix Edit Pro, Sony Vegas, and Adobe Premiere. Generally speaking, editing software prefer AVI, WMV, MPG to H.264 encoded MOV, MTS, TOD footage.

If you’re caught by the editing issues of Canon Powershot S95 footage, I advise you converts the H.264 MOV files to AVI or WMV with Pavtube HD Video Converter before editing. Why Pavtube HD Video Converter? Basically, it does a good job in converting H.264 .mov files to AVI, WMV formats for editing in sync and not looses much quality. And it allows you to join the Canon Powershot S95 clips together, and add audio track to the video as background music. Does it convert MOV to AVI fast? Well I haven’t found a faster one so far.

Downloaded a trial of Pavtube HD Video Converter and get your Canon Powershot S95 .mov files converted to .avi or .wmv format as it shows below:
Step 1. Load H.264 .mov footage to Canon Powershot S95 MOV Converter.
Transfer h.264 encoded .mov files from Canon Powershot S95 camcorder to your computer via USB cable. Run Pavtube HD Video Converter, and click the “Add” button to load H.264/MOV videos.

Step 2. Set AVI/WMV as output format for editing.
Click “Format” bar to determine output format. Follow “Common Video” and select any format from “AVI MSMPEG4-V3 (*.avi)”, “WMV3 (WMV9)(*.wmv)” and “WMV2 (WMV8)(*.wmv)”.

Step 3. Adjust video and audio settings to optimize output file quality
Click “Settings” button, then you will be able to adjust audio and video parameters on the popup window to customize the output file quality, these adjustable parameters include codec name, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, and audio channel. To maintain original HD quality, you may set “original” in the fields of “Size”, “Bitrate” and “Frame rate”. To downsize the Canon Powershot S95 .mov files, just set a smaller bitrate.

Step 4. Click “Convert” button to convert Canon Powershot S95 MOV files to HD AVI/WMV.
Once the conversion is finished by Canon Powershot S95 MOV to AVI/WMV Converter, you can click “Open” button to get the output files effortlessly. Now you have got it right, just import and edit S95 MOV files with Sony Vegas Platinum, Adobe Premiere or any other editing software you like.

Additional editing features of the Pavtube HD Video Converter:

Deinterlace- click “Editor”, switch to “Effect” tab, find “Deinterlacing” box, and check it to eliminate interlacing lines.
Combine files together- check the files to be merged in file list and check “Merge into one” box beside “Settings” button.
Trim a section of the movie- click “Editor”, switch to “Trim” tab, and input time point in start and end box.
Thumbnail- click “Snapshoot” button when previewing the video. Click “Option” to set the image format of screenshots.
FLV for YouTube and Flikr- click “Format” and choose “Flash Video”>> “FLV H.264 (*.flv)” as output format if you’d like to share your Powershot S95 shootings to YouTube or Flikr.

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As we all know, Windows Movie Maker(WMM) is a free video editing software installed on a PC using Microsoft Windows OS. In order to import Sony HDR-PJ50 AVCHD MTS files to Windows Movie Maker to edit, format conversion is must. This article will show you how to transfer HDR-PJ50 AVCHD MTS files to Windows Movie Maker for editing using Pavtube MTS files Converter.

For your reference-Windows Movie Maker accepted formats:
.WMV, .ASF, .MPG (MPEG-1), .AVI (DV-AVI), .WMA, .WAV, and MP3

Step 1: Free download Pavtube MTS files Converter, install and run it.
Once run it, you can click “Add” button to import your .mts and .m2ts AVCHD files.

Step 2: Select output format for WMM and set destination folder
Click the pull down menu of “Format”, then you will be able to select a Windows Movie Maker supported format from the output format profile,we choose .wmv for example.

Meanwhile, click the folder icon at the end of “Output” to specify where to save the output files for your WMM, if not, this program will export them to the default save path automatically. BTW, if you want to combine multiple HDR-PJ50 .mts and .m2ts files into a single file, you can tick off the checkbox “Merge into one file” to realize this goal.

Step 3: Adjust video and audio settings to optimize output file quality

Step 4: Click “Convert” button to transfer HDR-PJ50 AVCHD MTS files to Windows Movie Maker
Once the conversion is finished by Pavtube MTS Video Converter, you can click “Open” button to get the output files effortlessly. Just import the converted files to WMM for editing via its “Import video” option.

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Convert Canon 60D MOV to 1080p AVI/WMV for editing and playing back

As it seems with every other generation of Canon dSLRs, the EOS 50D was a solid, if somewhat uninspired follow-up to the extremely well-received 40D. Now it’s the 60D’s turn to be the interesting model. It combines some of the best elements of the T2i and 7D in an updated–and occasionally frustrating–redesigned body. Canon 60D is an HD camcorder that record videos of 720/60p and 1080/30p s SD in MOV format. How good they play on your PC depends on how powerful your PC is. Basic editing software may have a hard time with the 60D footage, as it is H.264 encoded high-def streams. If you have a powerful PC with powerful editing software like Adobe Premiere Pro CS 5 (or Sony Vegas Movie Studio HD, Pinnacle Studio) installed, it won’t be a problem for playing and editing the 60D footage, otherwise you may get involved in playing back and editing issues. In that case, many people convert the H.264 codec into something more common, e.g. AVI and WMV. The following guide tells you how to convert Canon 60D MOV to 1080p AVI/WMV for editing and playing back.

Required software: Pavtube HD Video Converter
The software does a good job in converting H.264 .mov files to AVI, WMV formats for editing in sync and not loose much quality. And it allows you to join the Canon 60D clips together, and add audio track to the video as background music.

Step 1. Load H.264 .mov footage to Canon 60D MOV Converter.
Transfer h.264 encoded .mov files from Canon 60D camcorder to computer via USB cable. Download a trial of Pavtube HD Video Converter and run the software as the best Canon 60D MOV converter. Click the “Add” button to load .mov videos from 60D camcorder.

Step 2. Set AVI or WMV format as output format for editing.
Click “Format” bar to determine output format. Follow “Common Video” and select any format from “AVI MSMPEG4 -V3 (*.avi)”, “WMV3 (WMV9)(*.wmv)” and “WMV2 (WMV8)(*.wmv)”.

Step 3. Adjust video and audio settings to keep 1080p HD quality
Click “Settings” button, then you will be able to adjust audio and video parameters on the popup window to customize the output file quality, these adjustable parameters include codec name, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame
rate, sample rate, and audio channel. To maintain original HD quality, you may set “original” in the fields of “Size”, “Bitrate” and “Frame rate”. To downsize the Canon 60D .mov files, just set a smaller bitrate.

Step 4. Click “Convert” button to convert Canon 60D MOV files to HD AVI/WMV.
Once the conversion is finished by Canon 60D MOV to AVI Converter, you can click “Open” button to get the output files effortlessly. Now you have got it right, just import and editCanon 60D MOV files with common editing software like Magix Movie Edit Pro or load the EOS 60D clips to Windows Media Player for playback.

Additional editing features of the Pavtube HD Video Converter

Trim a section of the 60D clip- click ‘Editor’, switch to ‘Trim’ tab, and input time point in start and end box.
Combine Canon 60D MOV footgae together- check the files to be merged in file list and check ‘Merge into one’ box beside ‘Settings’ button.Deinterlace- click ‘Editor’, switch to ‘Effect’ tab, find ‘Deinterlacing’ box, and check it to eliminate interlacing lines.
If you want to update EOS 60D cilps to Myspace, Flikr, YouTube, etc, just choose “Flash Video>>FLV” instead. For Mac users, there is HD Video Converter for Mac software that converts 60D video to QuickTime MOV and DV AVI formats that are editable for FCP, FCE, iMovie, etc.

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What is MXF file?

From wiki.com: MXF is a “container” or “wrapper” format which supports a number of different streams of coded “essence”, encoded with any of a variety of codecs, together with a metadata wrapper which describes the material contained within the MXF file.

Most MXF media files are from two data-recording camera systems, Sony’s XDCAM and Panasonic’s DVCPRO P2. These camera footages are mutually incompatible due to opaque subformat options obscured behind the MXF file extension. Without  conversion tools, it is impossible to distinguish these  incompatible formats.

Pavtube MXF file Converter Mac is the best MXF file Converter for Mac users, Mac MXF File Converter can help us transfer mxf file to quicktime mov on mac (including  friendly video format like mpeg, wmv, avi,  mp4, etc). It is a simple, useful, and powerful Mac MXF Converter.

Now please refer to the following guide how to convert MXF to QuickTime MOV with Pavtube MXF file Converter Mac. (more…)

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AVHD stands for Advanced Video Codec High Definition. AVCHD is high definition camcorder video format jointly developed by Panasonic and Sony for use in consumer camcorders.

AVCHD is a form of video compression that allows the large data files created by HD video recording to be captured and saved on digital media such as hard disk drives and flash memory cards.

What is the Resolution of AVCHD?

AVCHD records video at a range of resolutions including 1080p, 1080i and 720p. Most AVCHD camcorders that advertise themselves as “Full HD” models will record HD video at a resolution of 1080i.

What Does AVCHD Record Onto?

AVCHD was developed to record onto DVDs as well as SD/SDHC memory cards, Memory Stick memory cards and hard disk drives.

One of the benefits of the AVCHD format is the ability to burn high definition video to a standard DVD disc. That DVD disc can then be played in a Blu-ray disc player, allowing you to view your high definition video on an HDTV. So even if you don’t own a Blu-ray disc burner, you can still play back your high definition home movies on a Blu-ray disc player (or even a Sony PlayStation 3).

AVCHD video can also be burned directly to a blank Blu-ray disc or output to a TV via an HDMI cable or component outputs. It can also be transferred to and viewed on a computer. \
Are All HD Camcorders AVCHD Camcorders?

No. Not all camcorder manufacturers use the AVCHD format. Only Sony and Panasonic use the AVCHD format exclusively for all their consumer high definition camcorders.

AVCHD Format Specifications

You can know more about solutions for dealing with AVCHD videos in my blog

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