Edit Canon XF Camcorder mxf files with mac imovie/Adobe Premiere Pro

Posted by eimaliyu on September 6th, 2012

Canon's XF105 HD Professional Camcorder fully featured pro video camera that imports nearly all the features and functionality of the 3-chip XF305 into a smaller, single sensor form factor. Taking advantage of the latest HD technology--along with Canon's robust MPEG-2 4:2:2 codec--the XF105 records full HD video to affordable Compact Flash cards. A newly developed Genuine Canon 10x HD video lens resolves images onto a native 1920 x 1080 CMOS sensor, which are captured in industry-standard MXF file wrappers using your choice of bit rate (up to 50Mbps), resolution, and frame rate.

Canon XF105 record mxf files, The Adobe Premier Pro (even its updated version CS 6/6.0.1) isn't well compatible with the tough "MXF" file format, though it's released the latest update on Enable Smart Rendering Codec Settings to the video tab of MXF OP1a exporters for XDCAM HD and XDCAM EX to enable or disable smart rendering for these formats in this May. In the case, convert MXF file to Adobe Premiere Pro well compatible file format can be an effective way.

Doremisoft MXF Converter for Mac help you convert any MXF files from Canon XF105/XF100/XF300/XF305 to MOV or MPEG-2. To finish the conversion you just need 3 steps:

Step 1: Import .mxf file(s) from canon xf105 to the Mac MXF Converter for Premiere Pro

Click the "Add File" button to get MXF videos to the software. Moreover, it allows you to load multiple videos for the batch conversion.

Step 2: Choose the optimal file format

Press the menu of "Profile", you can select "Adobe Premiere-MOV" or "Adobe Premiere-MPEG-2" of "Premiere". Also, it has other presets for a wide range of video or audio file format and applications. Supposed you still try to edit the Canon XF 105 MXF files in iMovie. You can choose the "iMovie" for editing MXF in iMovie.

Step 3: Start the MXF conversion for Adobe Premiere Pro

Hit "START" to begin to convert MXF from Canon XF105 to MOV or MPEG2 for Premiere Pro.

Additional: Canon's XF100 HD Professional Camcorder also imports nearly all the features and functionality of the 3-chip XF300 into a smaller, single sensor form factor. Canon XF100 makes use of Canon's XF codec-a file-based MPEG-2 compression with MXF file wrapper. It can record content with 1080/60i/30p/24p or 720/60p/30p/24p at a constant bitrate of 50Mbps for high color resolution of HDV. Also, it is featured with 10x HD Zoom lens, SuperRange Optical Image Stabilizer system, an eight-blade iris for stunning background blur and so forth. Everything goes perfect until you try to edit Canon XF100 .mxf file in iMovie. Fail in import the MXF file into iMovie, though you can see the disk on the desktop and can play the files in the Canon plug-in after connecting the XF100 to Mac. If you want to edit mxf file from canon xf100, Doremisoft MXF Converter for Mac helps you to do the MXF to iMovie conversion on Mac (Mountain Lion included).