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Cinemartin Cinec Pro, the leading app that inherits the features of its big brother, the renowned Cinec GOLD valued at 999 € and used worlwide by companies sucha as: REDucation, Panasonic Corp and Swiss TV Channel 9 among Others, has the ability to encode videos from native Sony XAVC and Sony XAVC-S to prores among other professional output presets, including H.265
Cinemartin Cinec is compatible with Sony FDR-1, FDR-AX1, Sony PXW-Z100, Sony Cinealta F5, F55
What about this XAVC (mxf) and XAVC-S next generation codec ?
This is a codec based on H.264, with a big point in quality / ratio, this allow sony to integrate a 4K codec in the 2013 and 2014 camcorder 4k lineup. Was introduced some time ago by Sony, starting with PMW-F5 and PMW-F55 camcorders and then with PXW-Z100, FFDR-AX100 and FDR-AX1.
You can read more about XAVC
here.
Below is an example and the basic steps to set up your xavc videos to be standard compliant for most of the video editors
This codec (XAVC) purpose is to allow the high end and last tech Sony cameras to be able to record 4K, not to be an editable format.
As it happens with H.264, XAVC and XAVC-S are not for editing, are for delivery, in the case of the sony's, xavc & 's the output of the camcorder, in mxf or mp4 format are the previous step before edit / compose any sequence of pro video.
Once you transfer the XAVC files to the computer, you need to convert that mxf or mp4 xavc or xavc's codec videos to any editable format, like DNxHD or Prores.
Cinec allows you to prepare sony xavc videos to be standard compatible for editing NLE systems such as Adobe Premiere, Avid Media Composer, Sony Vegas, etc ..
You can easy convert xavc to prores, encode xavc-s to prores, transcode any xavc & xavc's to several professional video formats, cause Cinec in builded and developed by professionals of the video. Customer include cinematographers, video editing companies, post-production, and more.
Here are the simple steps you need to do to make your sony xavc mxf or mp4 videos great, and compatibe with adobe premiere and others NLE (Non Linear Editing systems).