Run into issues editing Sony PXW-X320 XAVC files in Avid Media Composer? This tutorial is ready to help you out. It presents a workaround to encode SonyPXW-X320 XAVC media to DNxHD codec encoded MOV video for editing within Avid Media Composer with optimum performance.
The Sony PXW-X320 incorporates XAVC in the HD domain at a 100 Mbps data rate, enabling the creation of rich content with 10-bit quality. It is capable of recording XVAC Intra at 1920 x 1080 Full HD 59.94i, 50i, 29.97p, 25p and 23.98p, or 1280 x 720 HD 59.94p and 50p. The camcorder can also record Full HD video at up to 50 Mbps using XAVC Long and MPEG HD422, as well as MPEG HD at 35 Mbps / 25 Mbps, MPEG IMX at 50 Mbps, and DVCAM at 25 Mbps in MXF file, as standard supported formats.
“How do you guys import Sony PXW-X320 MXF footage into Avid MC for further editing? Currently, I can’t figure out a way to do this by myself. If anyone has had any experience editing this format in Avid, I would be pleased to learn of their experience and the specs of the computer they are using. Thanks in advance.”
While, it’s a pity that currently Full HD footage is a very non-standard format and it’s unsupported in Avid Media Composer. The 1920 * 1080 XAVC full recordings from Sony PXW-X320 can’t be edited by Avid directly. If you are the camcorder users and wanna get Sony PXW-X320 XAVC into Avid, you will face the XAVC to AVID importing troubles.
Your options are to either use a third-party plugin, or to transcode by using a third-party tool like Acrok Video Converter Ultimate (Windows | Mac) or Acrok MXF Converter (Windows | Mac). Unfortunately, Sony, and now Nablet, have continued to decline to produce plugins for XAVC. For a fast and fluid Sony PXW-X320 footage and Avid workflow, we would recommend converting Sony PXW-X320 XAVC files to DNxHD before start editing in Avid. Learn how to do file conversion below.
Free doenload Acrok Video Converter Ultimate
Convert Sony PXW-X320 clips to DNxHD for editing in Avid
Step 1: Run the best MXF to Avid Converter, and load Sony PXW-X320 XAVC files to the software. You can click either “Add file” button button to load source .mxf or files. If you want to combine the loaded XAVC clips into one file, simply click “Settins” button tjen tick off the checkbox before “Merge all files into one”.
Step 2: Click the format bar, and move mouse cursor to Editing Software -> Avid DNxHD 1080P(*.mov) as Avid Media Composer compatible codec for editing XAVC files in Media Composer smoothly.
Step 3: Click the convert button under the preview window, and the program will start to convert Sony PXW-X320 XAVC to DNxHD .mov format on Mac OS X.
After the XAVC to DNxHD conversion, you can run the Avid Media Composer and click File –> Import –> Files to import the converted files and edit them in Avid without any rendering or unrecognizable problem.
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