Import Sony F5/F55 XAVC files to PowerDirector for Smooth Editing

"I've tried to get 1080p XAVC footage from an F5 to work in PowerDirector 12. It imports, but when I try to do anything with it, it crashes. If anything I missed? What's the matter? Any suggestion is appreciated! Thank you..."

More than one person has reported that they once encountered annoying issues when importing Sony F5/F55 XAVC footage into PowerDirector for further editing. Well, according to our multiple testing, we have found two main basic reasons behind here. Firstly, the XAVC footage recorded from Sony F5/F55, doesn't seem to ideal editing-friendly format for PowerDirector by far. What's more, PowerDirector can handle (usually) 4K files without much problem although, but it is extremely hardware intensive. To solve all problems, the easy workaround is to downscale and convert XAVC to a more editing-friendly format, such as MPEG-2 for PowerDirector. Here I highly recommend you adopt Brorsoft Video Converter, which is a great app to encode XAVC to MPEG-2 for editing in PowerDirector with the best quality.

With it, you can effortlessly encode/re-encode XAVC intra footage shot from Sony PWM-F5, F55 for smoothly importing and editing in various non-linear editing systems (NLE), including Cyberlink PowerDirector, Davinci Resolve, Pinnacle Studio, Sony Vegas, Windows Movie Maker, After Effects and more. What's more, the built-in video editor allows you to trim, crop, rotate video, add watermarks, etc. to get the very part and effect you want. Now just download it and follow the steps below to learn how to prepare Sony XAVC files for editing in PowerDirector 13/12/11.

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Converting Sony F5/F55 XAVC video for editing in PowerDirector

Step 1: Run the Sony XAVC to PowerDirector Converter you just set up. Drag and drop the F55 or Sony F5 XAVC files to the Converter. You can also hit Add files button to import videos to the app.

Step 2: Select output format. Click "Format" menu firstly and then follow "Adobe Premiere/Sony Vegas" > " MPEG-2 (*.mpg)" as the output format. MPEG-4, WMV are also the proper choices.

Tip: You can click "settings" button in the main interface to customize the output video's parameters, such as resolution, frame rate, etc.

Step 3: Now press "Convert" and let it go. The XAVC to PowerDirector Converter supports batch conversion, so if you have lots of xavc videos to convert, check 'Shut down computer after conversion', and you can go away without keeping an eye on it.

When the conversion is done, you can find the output files by clicking "Open" button on the main interface, then you could do a quick edit in XAVC(even in 4K) with PowerDirector 13/12/11 without any issue.