General Discussion - P2 MXF to ProRes-Panasonic P2 MXF workflow with Final Cut Pr Vincent121 - Tue Aug 28, 2012 4:58 pm Post subject: P2 MXF to ProRes-Panasonic P2 MXF workflow with Final Cut Pr
P2 MXF to ProRes-Panasonic P2 MXF workflow with Final Cut Pro
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Summary: This guide will tell you how to Convert Panasonic P2 MXF to Final Cut Pro ProRes for editing.
Panasonic P2 is a series of professional camcorders which offer us vivid image. Panasonic has brought its most advanced video imaging technologies together to create a camera-recorder that brings image and resolution to new heights. The P2 camcorders are popular in the professional video making users, its most famous models include AJ-HPX3000, AG-HPX300, AJ-HPX2000, AJ-HPX3700, AJ-HPM200, AJ-HPX2700, etc.
This article is mainly to solve the P2 recordings to FCP importing problems. As many users get P2 camcorders, more problems are coming up, some of them have the need to import P2 MXF files to Final Cut Pro for editing on Mac, but they always have the importing problems due to the video codec and format. As we know, the FCP only supports few formats, it doesn't support MXF files well, so in order to import MXF to FCP X, you need to convert P2 MXF to FCP compatible formats, such as Apple ProRes 422 codec MOV format, this format is best supported by Final Cut Pro.
Now you can follow the steps below to convert Panasonic P2 MXF to Apple ProRes 422 MOV for Final Cut Pro editing on Mac Mountain Lion 10.8.
1. Download Pavtube MXF converter for Mac. It's the professional MXF convert, this software can help you convert MXF to common formats, such as MP4, AVI, MKV, or Apple ProRes, AIC, etc.
2. Install and launch the software, import Panasonic P2 MXF videos to the MXF converter for Mac. Click "format" bar to choose the best video format for output. You are recommended to choose "Final Cut Pro -> Apple ProRes 422 (*.mov)".
3. You can click "settings" button to adjust the output video's parameters, such as resolution, bitrate, etc.
4. Edit function is easy and useful, you can trim, crop, or add watermark to the video.
5. Click convert button to start converting Panasonic P2 MXF to Apple ProRes for FCP X.
After conversion, you just need to transfer Panasonic P2 converted videos to FCP X then you can edit the recorded videos as you want. This software can convert AJ-HPX3000 to FCP, convert AG-HPX300 to FCP, convert AJ-HPX2000 to FCP, convert AJ-HPX3700 to FCP, convert AJ-HPX3700 to FCP, convert AJ-HPX2700 to FCP, etc.
