Monday, August 5, 2013

How to play XAVC video on QuickTime on Mac?

Summary: Follow this article to learn how to play Sony XAVC footage with QuickTime Player on Mac. With this Sony XAVC Mac Video Converter, you can easily convert XAVC footage to QuickTime MOV on Mac.


The Sony PMW-F55 CineAlta 4K Digital Cinema Camera functions an eight.9MP Super 35mm image sensor, capable of capturing 4K, 2K and HD resolution video within a wide variety of formats by way of the camera's internal recorder. The F55 is amongst the initial digital motion image cameras using a international shutter, which fully eliminates motion skew and also other "rolling" shutter distortions. The XAVC format is used by Sony PMW F5 or F55 camcorder.

Shoot with Sony PMW camera, you will got some files with .xavc extension. With 4K resolution (4096 × 2160 and 3840 × 2160) at up to 60 fps, we know the recording XAVC footage is not supported by most of players like QuickTime on Mac. When opening XAVC video QuickTime, you will find a pop-up windows said mistake. So the best way to watch XAVC with QT is to convert XAVC to MOV which is the most popular format for QuickTime player.

Here Pavtube XAVC HD Video Converter for Mac is usually a handy and effective video converting plan to convert XAVC video to MOV for playing on QuickTime Player. In addition, it might help you convert XAVC to other frequent formats such as XAVC to FLV , MP4,AVI,MPG,3GP,and so forth for distinctive customers.

If you are a XAVC camcorder users and troubled with how to play XAVC on QuickTime as above, you can follow simple step-by-step guide to transcode Sony XAVC video to QuickTime MOV for playback:

Step 1. Install and launch the best XAVC to QuickTime Converter for Mac, click top left two icons to load individual videos or load the entire folder.



If you want, you can merge several XAVC clips by ticking "Merge into one file" box.
If the supposed size of the input files is 1GB, then the memory space should be up to 40GB.

Step 2. Click "Format" and choose Common Video> MOV-QuickTime(*.mov) as the best video format for playing XAVC footage on QuickTime.

xavc-to-mov-quick-time


Tips: Pavtube XVAC Video Converter for Mac can also convert Sony XAVC files to FCP, iMovie, FCE, Avid Media Composer, Avid Xpress Pro, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe After Effects, DaVinci Resolve or Apple Aperture 3 compatible video format for editing. Just select the corresponding option.

Step 3. You can also click "Settings" to change the output video bitrate, frame rate, size, etc. all according to your needs.

Step 4. When everything is done, click the "Convert" button at the bottom-right corner to finishe the Sony XAVC to QuickTime MOV conversion. While you wait, have a coffee or take a nap and let XAVC Video Converter do the work in the background.

After conversion, you can click "Open" to find the output quicktime mov file, then you can transfer the video files to QuickTime Player for playback smoothly.

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