Panasonic’s DVCPRO P2, like AJ-HPX3700, AJ-HPX2700, AJ-HPX3100, AJ-HPX2100, AJ-HPX2000, AG-3DP1, AG-HPX500 series, AG-HPX370 series, AG-HPX250, AG-HVX170 etc. produced mutually incompatible files due to opaque subformat options obscured behind the MXF file extension. Thus, for Mac users with P2 HD camcorder, they often encounter the importing problem while transferring the footage from the P2 cards to Final Cut Pro X/7/6 as the user below:
“One of my clients just bought a used Panasonic P2 camera, a HVX200, and wants to edit P2 MXF footages in FCP on OS 10.6, but he found FCP can not recognize the P2 .mxf footages well. Any idea?”
The MXF file wrapper that ensures the widest compatibility with existing industry infrastructure, metadata and non-linear editing (NLE) systems. The codec’s 4:2:2 color sampling provides ultra-fine transitions in tone and color for maintaining the highest image quality needed for advanced post production processing. While Panasonic P2 users still have troubles when importing those 1080P recordings with .mxf file extension to the latest Final Cut Pro X or FCP 6/7 for editing. It’s not an odd thing, because we can not find P2 out there from “Final Cut Pro X Supported Cameras” page. Then what to do if you need import P2 MXF files to FCP? Here we recommend using UFUWare MXF Converter for Mac to transcode MXF files to Apple ProRes 422 for FCP X/7/6.
How to Convert Panasonic DVCPRO HD P2 MXF to Apple ProRes for FCP X/7/6 editing
Step One: Download and install UFUWare MXF Converter for Mac
Launch this P2 MXF Converter for Mac software and connect your camcorder to Mac.
Step Two: Import Panasonic P2 MXF files to Mac P2 MXF Converter
Click the “Add Video” button at the top right of the main interface. In the open window, select the MXF video file from Panasonic P2 card. You can also transfer P2 MXF files from your camcorder to Mac Hard Drive before import.
Step Three: Simply edit P2 MXF video
After importing P2 MXF files, you can do some basic editing before conversion. In the edit window, you can modify video effect by adjusting the brightness, contrast, hue, saturation and volume, crop video, trim video, and add text/image watermark to video.
Step Four: Choose output format
Click on the “Format” bar and get the dropdown menu, then move your pointer to choose “Final Cut Pro> Apple PreRes 422″ as the output format.
Also, you can click the Settings button and set detailed output parameters in the open window such as Video Encoder, Frame Rate, Sample Rate, etc.
Step Five: Convert P2 MXF to Final Cut Pro supported format
When you finish the settings, click the Convert button and begin to convert MXF to Final Cut Pro supported format Apple ProRes 422 MOV. After that, click the “Open Folder” button to get the converted file and then import the converted MXF file to Final Cut Pro X/7/6.
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