How to Decode XAVC to MP4 and Play XAVC on Mobile Devices Smoothly

Posted by cindyhuan on April 25th, 2013

According to Wikipedia, XAVC is a recording format that was introduced by Sony on October 30, 2012. XAVC is an open format that will be licensed to companies that want to make XAVC products, in simple words, that is to say "XAVC" is a movie format commonly used by HD digital cameras such as Sony PMW-F55. If you shoot video by those cameras, you will get the XAVC footages correspondently.

In contrast, MP4 is a common and popular video format. It is widely used by many media players and various kinds of portable mobile devices such as iPhone5, iPod, Samsung Galaxy S. In review of this, if we want to play the recorded XAVC files produced by Sony HD cameras on mobile devices, we will need to convert XAVC to the compatible format MP4 first.

In order to convert XAVC to MP4, we only need a good converter for help. It is recommended using the best XAVC converter AND Mac XAVC converter developed by Doremisoft which is professionally design to assist us convert XAVC video to virtually any formats effortlessly. With this all-in-one converter, we can convert XAVC videos to the video or audio formats without any difficulties. Thanks to its comprehensive optimized preset formats, we can import XAVC footage to mobile devices like iPhone, iPad, iPod, Samsung Galaxy, Android for playing smoothly. On the other hand, it is compatible with most of media devices and Mac applications like YouTube, Final Cut Pro and more. That is to say, we can either share XAVC footage to YouTube or edit XAVC in Final Cut Pro as we like.

Tutorials on how to convert XAVC videos to MP4 step by step:

Step 1: Add XAVC footages to the converter

First of all, download the XAVC video converter and run it. Then, you can either drag and drop the XAVC footages to the program or click the "Add file" button to import the XAVC.

Tips: to download the XAVC footages to your computer, you may need the Content Browser v2.0 and a Sony SxS card reader/Echo Thunderbolt Card reader, or a computer equipped with an Express Card 34 slot. 

Step 2: Set MP4 as the output video

To transfer XAVC to mobile devices for playback, we will choose "Convert to" > "Common Video" > "MP4" as the output format.

Tips: You are allowed to cut/split/crop/rotate the XAVC footages by using the editing function provided.

Step 3: Start to convert XAVC to .mp4

After finishing the previous steps, press the big button to launch the conversion which will be done in a short time. Please give us your thoughts via our Facebook and Twitter feeds or the comments below.