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Sony PWM-EX1/EX1R Workflow within Avid Media Composer

No matter you're using or going to have a Sony PMW-EX1 or PMW-EX1R, you may wanna know the compatibility of the Sony XDCAM media with Avid Media Composer for smooth editing work. In this page, we outline the best workflow of importing Sony PWM-EX1/EX1R footage into Avid Media Composer. Learn the details.

Avid editing systems provide fast access, import, and playback of native XDCAM material although, importing/editing problems still occurred from time to time like "the file has no audio or video streams" when users try to handle Sony EX1/EX1R XDCAM EX videos with Avid Media Composer. In fact, Sony XDCAM EX camcorders like PWM-EX1, EX1R, EX3 usually record MPEG-2 codec MP4 format video, this codec is not good for editing in Avid MC.

To achieve your goal to edit Sony PMW-EX1/EX1R video with Avid Media Composer beautifully, Brorsoft Video Converter for Mac comes out for you. It will make the workflow smoother to get those XDCAM files off a memory card or hard drive to Media Composer- without XDCAM plugin.

Overall, Brorsoft's Video Converter Mac can enable you to effortlessly transcode XDCAM EX MP4 videos (from Sony PWM-EX1R/EX1/EX3) to DNxHD files, which will create an Avid MC friendly file format for smooth editing. Besides Avid, this software can also export MPEG-2 for Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple ProRes for Final Cut Pro, AIC for iMovie/Final Cut Express and more NLE systems for native editing. If you are on Windows, just turn to Brorsoft Video Converter. Now get the step-by-step instruction below.

(Note: Click here for OS X 10.5)

Converting Sony PMW-EX1/EX1R MP4 to DNxHD for Avid Media Composer

1. Launch the Sony XDCAM Converter, you can click "Add Video" button to load source files from PMW-EX1/EX1R. Convert supports batch conversion, so you are allowed to add multiple files to convert at a time.

2. Click on "Format", and select output format from the drop-down list. Follow "Avid Media Composer" > "Avid DHxHD (*.mov)", which is the best format for editing Sony EX1/EX1R MP4 video in Avid.

3. Click "Settings" button if you'd like to customize advanced audio and video parameters like Video Codec, bit rate, frame rate, Audio codec, sample rate, audio channels.

4. Click convert button to start transcoding PMW-EX1/EX1R MP4 files to DNxHD .mov on Mac OS X.

With this Sony XDCAM EX to Avid converter, you can easily change PMW- EX1/EX1R files to Media Composer for editing. This software runs fast, so you can convert your XDCAM EX footages to Avid in less time, and video and audio synchronization is perfectly guaranteed.