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Mac P2 MXF to MOV Converter- Edit Panasonic P2 MXF in FCP on Mac

Recently many camcorder producers have released their high-end products to attract video editors with high tech in their camcorders. You’d know that professional camcorders series usually use MXF container format to record videos instead of AVCHD format, which is often used in family expenses camcorders.

MXF is a special HD video format which has been put to use in many high-end camcorders such as Cannon XF series and Panasonic P2HD series (including AG-HPX170, AG-HVX200, AG-HPX300, AG-HPX370, AG-HPX500, AJ-HPX2100, AJ-HPX2700, AJ-HPX3000, and AJ-HPX3700, etc.). Files are saved onto the P2 memory card in MXF format allowing direct data transfer to broadcasting and production system.

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However, those files in MXF format have proved to be not so well-suited when they are about to be edited in Final Cut Pro. In this article we’d like to give you the solution to editing Panasonic P2 MXF in FCP. You can go through the page to get the detailed instruction.

To edit Panasonic P2 video footage with Final Cut Pro, you have to convert P2 MXF to FCP natively supported video format like Apple ProRes MOV with Apple Intermediate Codec. Here we recommend you the best Mac P2 MXF to MOV Converter which can help you to transcode Panasonic P2 MXF to Apple ProRes .mov format for FCP on Mac OS X quickly and easily.

Step 1: Download and install the best P2 MXF to FCP Converter and launch it to add your P2 MXF videos to it.
Tips:
1. If you are using FCP X, please make sure you have download and installed ProApps QuickTime Codecs manually, or you may get files with sound only without video.
2. When import MXF videos to the MXF Converter, please make sure you have the entire MXF file structure as it saved on your camcorder’s P2 card. If you only have some loose .MXF clips, your files will have image only without audio.
3. If you wanna merge several P2 MXF videos into one file, just tick the “Merge into one” box.

Step 2: Click on the “Format” and get the dropdown menu, then move your pointer to “Final Cut Pro> Apple PreRes 422(HQ)", if you give the priority to the quality of the converted videos.
Tips: You can click the “Settings” icon to customize the video/audio settings for Final Cut Pro: 1920*1080 vide size; 30fps frame rate(for original 60i videos) or 25fps frame rate(for original 50i videos).

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Step 3: Click Edit button and you can deinterlace Panasonic 1080i P2 MXF footages for FCP via ticking the “Deinterlacing” box in the Video Editor interface.

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Step 4: Click Convert button to start converting Panasonic P2 MXF to FCP friendly Apple ProRes 422 on Mac OS X.

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When conversion complete you can click “Open” to find final .mov videos. Then you can directly import the .mov files to FCP for further editing, saving time from rendering the files for more compatible with FCP.

Tip: This top P2 MXF to MOV Converter can also help you to convert P2 MXF to AIC MOV for iMovie and FCE on Mac.



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