Log and transfer Canon C300 MXF videos to Avid for editing

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Canon EOS C300, as part of Canon's Professional HD Cinema System, brings the expertise and decades of experience in designing sensors, lenses, image processing and design to the world of motion picture capture and meet the needs of cinema industry professionals. Different from EOS C300 PL, EOS C300 has a Canon EF lens mount and is compatible with all of Canon's new EF Cinema lenses and current EF lenses, including compact primes, super telephotos, specialty tilt-shift, macro and fisheye - over 60 in all. The most attractive featre, besides the unique Super 35mm Canon CMOS sensor, is that EOS C300 provides outstanding cinema quality movie capture with the revolutionary Canon DIGIC DV III Image Processor and 50 Mbps 4:2:2 codec.

But according to Avid users' say on the forum, EOS C300 seems not to be so perfect. Although having installed the AMA plug-in and 2.0 of the Canon XF plugin, you will still find it unable to play and import Canon C300 MXF footages to Avid Media Composer on Mac.Since both Canon and Avid firmly state that the Avid v5 can handle MXF files, you can not rely on them to give you a solution. You have to find a third party software help you import your C300 MXF footages to Avid Media Composer.

How to import Canon C300 MXF footage to Avid Media Composer on Mac?

Step 1. Import Canon C300 MXF files to UFUSoft MXF Video Converter for Mac.

Launch UFUSoft MXF Converter for Mac as the best MXF to Avid MC Converter. Drag MXF videos from your computer or Camera's CF card. You can load multiple files once.

Step 2. Choose Avid Media Composer – Avid DNxHD (*.MOV) output format.

Click "Profile" button to choose "Avid Media Composer > Avid DNxHD 1080p (*.mov)" or "Avid Media Composer > Avid DNxHD 720p (*.mov)" as output format.



Step 3. Merge Canon XF205 MXF files into one (optional)

Tick the checkbox for “Merge into one file”, and the Mac Canon C300 MXF Video Converter will join and combine the video clips into a single file as output for Avid Media Composer.

Step 4. Convert Canon C300 MXF to Avid DNxHD for Avid Media Composer on Mac

Click the "Convert" button, this best Canon MXF to Avid DNxHD Converter will convert Canon C300 MXF video to Avid DNxHD for editing in Avid Media Composer on Mac immediately. You can find the process in the "Conversion" interface.

Tips:

For some Mac users, when editing the MXF videos via the Editor windows of Canon MXF Converter for Mac, the video and sound may go output sync sometimes, making it somewhat difficult to find the trim location. But the output videos would play without sync problem after conversion. You also can choose Apple ProRes for Final Cut Pro 6,7 and FCP X. Apple InterMediate Codec (AIC) compatible with FCE 4, iMovie, Quicktime Player to import the HD videos on Mac without compatibility issue. And Upload to Youtube or Burn to DVD for sharing.

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