Canon XF405 is a popular camcorder that recommended and selected by many professional users, the powerful camcorder can help you to capture high quality 4K videos. In this article, you will learn the best workflow to import and edit Canon XF405 4K MP4 and MXF videos in Premiere Pro CC, you will also get the best Canon XF405 4K video converter to use.
As Canon’s professional digital camcorder, Canon XF405 has attracted the attention of many professional users. The canon XF405 has a smaller body, but its performance is even better. XF405 is more suitable for hand-held shooting, and is suitable for users with higher requirements on portability and image quality. In terms of appearance, compared with the previous series, the Canon XF405 is smaller and lighter, and it is still very light even after various accessories are added. Therefore, Canon XF405 is more suitable for hand-held shooting, and is also more suitable for small teams or even single people to go out to shoot. Moreover, the Canon XF405 is equipped with a touch screen. Users can directly focus on a certain area or set parameters through the direction of the screen. The touch screen is designed to keep pace with the pace of the industry. Moreover, through the touch screen, we can easily do some operations that are not easy to complete at ordinary times, especially for beginners. Therefore, canon XF405 is relatively easy for beginners to use.
After got the Canon XF405 camcorder, most users will use it to record high quality videos. From Canon XF405 official product page or its user manual you will know that Canon XF405 can record full HD 1080p videos in multiple frame rates, or capture videos in 4K resolution, and the recorded videos will be in 4K MP4 and MXF format. The 4K format will help you to store high quality videos, but the 4K .mp4 and XF-AVC .mxf files are not compatible with Premiere Pro CC, many users have encountered problems when they import 4K files from Canon XF405 to Premiere Pro CC for native editing, below is an example problem.
Canon XF405 to Premiere Pro CC Question
“Hi, I purchased the Canon XF405 camcorder not long ago to capture high quality 4k videos, can you help me to import 4K files from Canon XF405 to Premiere Pro CC and edit smoothly? I have used XF405 recorded some videos in 4K MXF format. Today I need to edit some 4k footages with Premiere Pro CC, but when I try to import 4k .mxf files from Canon XF405 to Premiere Pro CC, I found the videos can’t be handled smoothly, and I was told by professional Canon users that Canon XF405 recorded 4K MXF files are not compatible with Premiere Pro CC, they suggested me to convert Canon XF405 4K MXF files to supported format of Premiere. Can you show a method to import files from Canon XF405 to Premiere Pro CC and edit natively? Thanks!”
Have you encountered the Canon XF405 4K files’ importing and editing issue just like it showed above? Many Canon XF405 users have encountered this kind of issue, why Canon XF405 4K videos are not natively supported by Premiere Pro CC? The issue is caused by the video codec and format. If you check Adobe Premiere Pro CC supported video formats on its official website, you will know that not all the video formats are supported by Premiere Pro CC natively, and Canon XF405 4K videos are not natively supported, in this case, if you try to load 4K MP4 or MXF files from Canon XF405 to Premiere Pro CC, you will meet with importing and editing issues.
Canon XF405 to Premiere Pro CC Workflow
How can we solve the Canon XF405 to Premiere Pro CC importing and editing issues? The easiest method is to convert Canon XF405 4K videos to Premiere Pro CC native supported video formats, and then you can get rid of importing and editing issues. A powerful 4k video converter will help you to convert 4K MP4 files from Canon XF405 to Premiere Pro CC, it is called Acrok Video Converter Ultimate, this software has Windows version and Mac version, it can work 4K video converter to help you convert all the 4K UHD videos, Blu-ray disc movies and DVD disc movies, you can check its features below.
Acrok Video Converter Ultimate main features:
- Convert Canon XF405 4K MP4 files to Premiere Pro CC;
- Convert 4K MP4, 4K H.264, 4K H.265, 4K MOV, 4K MKV, 4K MXF, etc.
- Rip Blu-ray and DVD discs, ISO files or folder;
- Optimized formats for Premiere, FCP X, iMovie, Sony Vegas, etc.
- Optimized formats for smartphones, 4K TVs, tablets, etc.
- Editing features like trimming, cropping, watermark, 3D, effect, etc.
- NVIDIA and AMD video card acceleration technology.
Convert 4K files from Canon XF405 to Adobe Premiere Pro CC
Step 1. Download Acrok Video Converter Ultimate for Mac or Windows version, install this 4k video converter on your Mac or PC, run this Canon XF405 video converter program as the best Canon XF405 video converter.
Step 2. Click “Add Files” button on the main interface to import the Canon XF405 4K MP4 files that you need to convert, you can also directly drag and drop the Canon XF405 4K videos into the software.
Step 3. Please click format column and choose output format. To convert Canon XF405 to Adobe Premiere Pro CC, please choose “Editing software -> Adobe Premiere Pro (*.mov)” for output. To edit Canon XF405 4K files with Premiere Pro CC on Windows PC, please choose Premiere WMV format for output; If you want to convert Canon XF405 4K videos to Premiere and then use on Mac, just choose Premiere MOV format.
Step 4. Click settings button you will be able to adjust output parameters, such as video resolution, bitrate, frame rate, codec or others according to your need. If you don’t need to adjust you can skip this step.
Step 5. The last step is to click convert button to start Canon XF405 to Adobe Premiere Pro CC conversion.
Acrok Video Converter Ultimate for Mac or Windows will convert your Canon XF405 4K videos at fast speed with top quality, when your Canon XF405 files are converted, click open folder button you will get the converted videos, and then you can import the converted Canon XF405 videos to Adobe Premiere Pro CC for editing natively, you will not have any importing or editing issues anymore. Just download this Canon XF405 4K video converter and try as you want.
Tip: Canon XF series and professional camcorders are well supported
Acrok Video Converter Ultimate has good support for Canon XF series and professional camcorders recorded videos, it can support videos recorded by Canon XF705, XF405, XF400, XF205, XF200, XF105, XF100, XF305, XF300, etc. they are popular camcorders of Canon XF series, professional camcorders like XA10, XA20, XC10, XA55, XA50, XA45, XA40, XA15, XA11 are also well supported. Just use Acrok Video Converter Ultimate to deal with your professional videos, it will help you.
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