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[size="4"]Now some tips and tricks for Sony PXW-X500 XAVC Files to Final Cut Pro 6/7/X best workflow are listed below.

PXW-X500, a hot XDCAM Shoulder Camcorder from Sony, gives broadcasters a high degree of flexibility, allowing you to shoot in a wide variety of HD and SD formats, including XAVC Intra and XAVC Long GOP, MPEG HD 422 and MPEG HD 420, etc. It delivers outstanding videos although, the XAVC codec with Final Cut Pro incompatibility issue has let many users upset. To help you get rid of the trouble, in this article we will offer a simple way to edit Sony PXW-X500 XAVC clips in Final Cut Pro. If you happen to have the similar issue, read on to find the solution.

When got some XAVC files from Sony PXW-X500, you may be eager to edit the XAVC videos in FCP 7/X to get some superb masterpiece to spread the world. However, it is a pity that FCP hardly supports 4K raw Sony PXW-X500 XAVC files. The easy workaround here is to transcode and rewrap Sony PXW-X500 XAVC clips into Apple ProRes codec for FCP with a best program- Brorsoft Video Converter for Mac, which is rated as top XAVC converter for Mac.

This ideal App offers you a best way to get Sony PXW-X500 XAVC footage into FCP without losing quality. With it, you can transcode all XAVC files from Sony PXW-X500 to Final Cut Pro X, FCP 7 natively supported media format on Mac OS X (Yosemite included) with fast encoding speed. What's more, this video converter also provides the optimal presets like MPEG-2, DNxHD, Apple InterMediate Codec for Premiere, Avid MC, FCE, iMovie, etc. P.S. If you have some 4K videos to Final Cut Pro, Avid MC, iMovie, this video app can also be the choice. Download it and follow the tutorial below.

How to transcode Sony PXW-X500 XAVC videos to FCP X/7/6

Step 1: Launch the Sony XAVC to FCP Converter. Click "Add" icon to load video files from Sony PXW- X500 or directly drag&drop the files into file list.



Step 2: Click the "Format" bar and select Final Cut Pro> Apple ProRes 422(*.mov) as output format, which should work with FCP perfectly.



Tip: If you wanna, you can go to the "Settings" to customize proper video/audio parameters including Video size, bitrate and fame rate and more.

Step 3: After all necessary settings, hit the convert button to start the Sony PXW-X500 XAVC to ProRes conversion on Mac OS X. Once the conversion process shows 100%, click Open to get the output videos. Now you can edit the encoded Sony PXW- X500 XAVC videos in FCP without problem.

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