Converting Sony XDCAM footage to QuickTime MOV on Mac Sony XDCAM is a series of professional camcorders including the XDCAM SD, XDCAM HD, XDCAM EX and XDCAM HD422. They are capable of shooting in either standard definition or high definition. After recording some 1080p or 720p footages by your Sony XDCAM camcorder, you may want to play the XDCAM footage with QuickTime on your Mac. However, many users have been jumping over hurdle after hurdle trying to get XDCAM footage to play with QuickTime.
Althoug Sony provides a plugin called XDCAM Browser for you to preview the XDCAM EX.mp4 files or export as a mxf file, the limit is that it can't transfer to a.mov file and this rewapped.mxf file may not be viewing. To play Sony XDCAM footage using QuickTime as your media player on your Mac, you may have to convert the Sony XDCAM to a Mac-compatible MOV format. To do that, you can use EaseFab, which can help you transfer Sony XDCAM MP4/MXF files to QuickTime MOV files while keeping the original quality. Besides, the program also exports prefessional encoders like ProRes, Apple Intermediate Codec, DNxHD, MPEG-2 and many more, which ensures maximum editing quality and efficiency when working with Final Cut Pro, iMovie, Avid, and Adobe Premiere Pro, etc. Non-linear editing systems. Now download it and follow the simple tutorial below to learn how to transcode Sony XDCAM footage to QuickTime MOV on Mac OS X (Yosemite and Mavericks included).
Download the Sony XDCAM Video Converter: Converting Sony XDCAM media to QuickTime MOV on Mac Step 1: Import Sony XDCAM files Install and launch the Sony XDCAM Converter for Mac. Click the Add Video button to import Sony XDCAM separate.mxf or.mp4 files. Step 2: Select MOV as the output format Click the 'Profile' drop down list to select MOV (QuickTime playable format) from Common Video category as the output format. Then click 'Output' drop down list to select a proper destination folder for output files if you want to change the current default output folder. Note that you can customize the settings for the output. Tip: If you want to convert Sony XDCAM footage for editing, there are optimized presets for Final Cut Pro, iMovie, Avid, Premiere and many more editors.
You can find them under 'Editing Software' category. Step 3: Start transcoding Sony XDCAM to QuickTime MOV When everything is OK, you can click the Convert button to start converting Sony XDCAM MP4 or MXF to QuickTime MOV on Mac OS X. Once the conversion completes, you can play your Sony XDCAM footage in QuickTime or edit them on your Mac without problems. Learn more about Sony XDCAM Sony XDCAM is a series of products for digital recording using random access solid-state memory media and it has four different product lines - the XDCAM SD, XDCAM HD, XDCAM EX and XDCAM HD422 - differ in types of encoder used, frame size, container type and in recording media. The XDCAM format uses multiple video compression methods and media container formats. Video is recorded with DV, MPEG-2 Part 2 or MPEG-4 compression schemes.
DV is used for standard definition video, MPEG-2 is used both for standard and high definition video, while MPEG-4 is used for proxy video. Equipment that uses Professional Disc as well as XDCAM 4:2:2 on SxS cards as recording media employs MXF container to store digital audio/digital video streams.
XDCAM EX is a variation of XDCAM HD that records full HD resolution as either 1920 x 1080 or 1280 x 720 footage. XDCAM EX video and audio content is stored on disc within MP4 container files. The footage is recorded on SxS cards, based on the PCMCIA ExpressCard/34 form factor.
Some people try to import and edit XDCAM EX footage with Davinci Resolve, but they often fail to do that due to the format incompatible issue. Can Davinci Resolve native import XDCAM EX files? From list, we can see that it offers no native importing support for the XDCAM EX files. Therefore, to successfully load the XDCAM EX MP4 files into Davinci Resolve, the best solution is transcoding XDCAM EX to Davinci Resolve editable codec such as QuickTime, Prores, DNxHD, etc. Related article: Transcode XDCAM EX MP4 to Prores or DNxHD for Davinci Resolve Here, you can easily produce Davinci Resolve compatible QuickTime, DNxHD or Prores codec by download this powerful yet simple to use application called. The program has perfect importing support for the XDCAM EX MP4 files shot with Sony camera. Thanks to its batch conversion mode, you can load multiple XDCAM EX MP4 files into the application for conversion at one time.
The application can assist you to direct convert XDCAM EX to Davinci Resolve native compatible Prores, QuickTime or DNxHD codec with perfect quality and super-fast encoding speed. To get better output video and audio file quality, feel feel to adjust the output profile parameters such as video codec, resolution, bit rate, frame rate, audio codec, bit rate, sample rate, channels, etc as you like. For Windows users, you can go to download and install the Windows version - to perform the conversion on Windows 10/8.1/8/7. Step by Step to Transcode XDCAM EX MP4 for Davinci Resolve Editing Step 1: Load XDCAM EX files into the program. Start the program on your computer, on the main interface, click 'File' 'Add Video/Audio' or 'Add from folder' to load Sony XDCAM EX MP4 files into the program. Step 2: Specify output file formats. Click 'Format' bar, from its drop-down list, select Davinci Resolve best supported editing codec such as 'Avid DNxHD (.mov)' from 'Avid Media Composer' or 'Apple Prores 422(.mov)' from 'Final Cut Pro' main category menu extended list.
Step 3: Start the conversion process. After all the setting is done, click right-bottom 'Convert' button to start encoding XDCAM EX MP4 files to Davinci Resolve preferred editing codec. When the conversion is completed, click 'open Output Folder' button on the main interface to pop out the folder with converted files, then you will have no problem to import and on either Windows or Mac.