Convert MXF files to MPEG-2 for editing in Adobe Premiere Pro CS6

by Lydia Zhu officer

MXF format is more and more popular for Sony and Canon Camcorders. But it is not a good editing video format for may movie editing softwares. In other word, you will meet some error messages when you transfer MXF footages to Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 for editing. As reported, almost all the camera generated MXF files are editable in the latest CS6. The way you get the MXF recordings makes them different from the originals, like the one quoted here:

"I can't import any mxf file into Premiere CS6. While importing, always got the error message. I tried everything and had to intall Canopus.HQ.CODEC.v6.0.7 but nothing changes. I don't understand why I can edit my Canon MXF files in CS6 but the file from my colleague seems not to be importable. Have I lost some important metadata?"

Have you met the similar trouble? If you accidentally meet with the problem, the best solution is to convert Sony/Canon MXF to MPEG-2, the format which is proved to be the most compatible one with all the Adobe products, including Adobe Premiere Pro CS6. The most important part is how to find out the best MXF Converter among so many options on Google and Bing. It means that you need to download and insatll a top MXF Converter for Adobe Premiere CS6.

Here recommend the most professional MXF to Premiere Pro Converter, applying which you can get your MXF converted with lossless video quality at about 5X faster speed than other converters, thanks to its support for the NVIDIA CUDA & AMD APP(ATI Stream) acceleration technologies. Besides, the MXF Converter is also designed with some useful functions, including joining imported clips together for easy importing, trimming section of your file, adding text/image/video watermarks to your original files, deinterlacing 1080i files, replacing audio tracks, etc. Thus, it is highly recommended on many forums.

Guide: How to transcode MXF clips to MEPG-2 for importing to Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 on Wins

Step 1: Free download the MXF to Premiere Pro CS6 Converter for Wins and install it on your PC. Run it and import your MXF files into the MXF Converter.

Step 2: Hit the Format box and select Adobe Premiere/Sony Vegas --> MPEG-2(*.mpg) as output format and then set the output destination as you want. If you want to keep 60fps as frame rate after conversion, please choose WMV (VC-1) (*.wmv) as output.

Step 3: Adjust video and audio parameters, including the Bitrate of Video and Audio, the Codec of Video and Audio, Video Size, Sample Rate, Frame Rate, Audio Channels, etc., in the Profile Settings to get MXF files converted with original quality. Our recommedation of the settings is shown on the screen shot.

Step 4: Click the "Convert" button to start converting MXF footages for importing to Premiere Pro CS6 with original quality.

After the MXF to MPEG-2 conversion, you can import and edit your recordings in Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 without any incompatibility problem. Besides the capability of making MXF work with Premiere Pro, including Premiere Pro CS3/CS4/CS5/CS5.5/CS6, the versatile MXF Converter can also convert MXF recordings for putting to Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Elements, Sony Vegas, Avid Media Composer, Windows Movie Maker, Magix Movie Edit Pro, etc.

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