Deinterlace and Convert Canon C300 1080i MXF files to ProRes for FCP 7

Canon, which is no stranger to the professional photography community, just unveiled Canon C300 cinema camera at Hollywood's Paramount Studios, in front of a crowd of hundreds of journalists and film industry elite. It makes them accessible to access to a vast selection of widely available lenses, a large sensor that facilitates a shallow depth of field, and portable operation with a modular, compact camera and addresses its shortcomings--- you have to deinterlace its 1080i files while editing.

The Canon EOS C300 features an EF mount for compatibility not only with Canon's existing broad range of DSLR lenses, but also with the burgeoning line of EF Cinema Zoom and Prime lenses, which are designed to match up perfectly with the 3-perf Super 35mm-size CMOS sensor that Canon developed for this camera. Its Super 35mm CMOS Sensor employs an innovative readout technique that delivers full-bandwidth individual RGB video components without the need for any de-Bayering algorithms. Each of these components has a 1920 x 1080 sampling structure at up to 60 frames. From these original video components, a 1080-line 60i format or a 1280 x 720 at 60p HD format are selectively derived. As mentioned before, to deinterlace and edit Canon C300 1080i MXF files with FCP 7 has become the problem for some Canon lovers, since FCP 7 sometimes can not handle raw 1080i .mxf files.

As far as we know, the perfectly supported codec for FCP is Apple ProRes, so you need to convert C300 1080i MXF files to ProRes before you ingest the 1080i mxf files to FCP. Here recommended the best Canon C300 1080i MXF files to Apple ProRes Converter on Mac, which is also compatible with Mac OS Lion. With it, you can not only deinterlace and convert Canon C300 1080i MXF files to Apple ProRes for FCP X on Mac, but also edit your MXF files, such as cropping video size, trimming video clips, adding special effects and text/image/video watermarks to output videos, thus it will be on the top of your list.

Let’s start the C300 1080i MXF files to ProRes conversion with the step-by-step guide on Mac and then ingest the converted and deinterlaced 1080i videos for editing in Final Cut Pro.

Step 1: Import C300 1080i MXF files to the top MXF to Apple ProRes Converter on Mac;
Launch the MXF to Apple ProRes Converter on Mac. Click the button “File” to add MXF files to it. If it is necessary, you can double click the each file to have a preview.
Tips:
1. If you want to merge MXF files, just need to check the “Merge into one” box.
2. You should not move the single MXF video out of the whole MXF whole structure folder, or the MXF video would be wrong such as without audio.

Step 2: Select an output format for FCP and set the output folder.
Click on the “Format” and get the dropdown menu, then move you pointer to “Final Cut Pro”. Under the sub list are there a few formats which are all compatible with FCP. Here we recommend the Apple PreRes 422(HQ) if you give the priority to the quality of the converted videos. Then you can set the output folder by clicking “Browse” icon as you need.
Note: If you want the files to be in smaller size, you can follow Final Cut Pro>Apple ProRes 422(LT)(*mov)/Apple ProRes 422(*mov) option. If your files size is at SD levels, you are advised to choose Final Cut Pro>Apple ProRes 422(Proxy)(*mov), which is recommended for 480i/p and 576i/p shootings as well.

Step 3: Click “Settings” icon to adjust audio and video parameters.
Click the “Settings” icon and you will go into a new interface named “Profile Settings”. You can adjust codec, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate and audio channel in the interface according to your needs and optimize the output file quality.
Note 1: You’d better set the video frame rate as 30fps, video size as 1920*1080 to keep the best quality for editing in Final Cut Pro, If the 60i/30fps is your original frame rate. But if you shoot with 50i/25fps, then 25fps as the frame rate will be your best choice when conversion. If you want to have a smaller file size but keep the good quality, you can change the video size to 1440*1080.
Note 2: You can customize the defaults and save them as custom conversion settings without affecting the original default selection.
Note 3: Please click Edit and go to Video Editor, where you can select "Deinterlacing " your 1080i MXF files in "Effect".

Step 4: Start to deinterlace and transcode your C300 1080i MXF files to Apple ProRes for FCP 7.
Click the “Convert” button; it will transcode C300 1080i MXF files to Apple ProRes for FCP on Mac immediately. You can find the process in the “Conversion” interface.

When the C300 1080i MXF files to Apple ProRes conversion process is 100% completed, you will be able to get the output files for Final Cut Pro by clicking on “import” button effortlessly. Now you can easily ingest the converted and deinterlaced C300 1080i MXF files to Final Cut Pro 7 for editing with high quality without any trouble.

Tips:
If you wan to know more about the Canon C300 1080i MXF to FCP 7 Converter, please go to click on the link and go to Brorsoft MXF Converter for Mac to get more info about it.

2. If you only want to convert and deinterlace Canon C300 1080i MXF files for playback on Mac, you can refer to You can refer to Convert/Transcode MXF files to QuickTime MOV for playback on Mac to learn the detailed guide.

3. Get more information about converting Canon C300 footages to Premiere/iMovie/Avid Media Composer
a. Edit Canon C300 MXF in Premiere Pro
b. Put Canon C300 MXF footages in iMovie'11
c. Make Canon C300 MXF editable in Avid MC
d. Import Canon C300 MXF files to Sony Vegas Pro
e. Convert Canon C300 MXF files to After Effects
f. Edit Canon C300 MXF footages in FCE

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