Workflow of Panasonic AJ-PX800 MXF and iMovie 11/10/09/08 ( macOS Sierra)

How can we edit MXF files from Panasonic AJ-PX800 with iMovie 11/09/8? Should we buy third party converter? Let's fix the issue now working smoothly with Panasonic AJ-PX800 and iMovie on Mac OS X (MacOs Sierra included).

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Panasonic AJ-PX800 equipped with three 2/3″ MOS Sensors, which can provide you 1920 x 1080 Full HD images, besides the camcorder also add support for AVC-ULTRA codec family, such as AVC-Intra, AVC-LongG and AVC-Proxy. With Panasonic PX800 you can record high quality videos in MXF format, it is an advanced format that used by Panasonic P2 series, Canon XF series and Sony XDCAM series, etc. MXF is an excellent video format for recording videos, but it is not an easy-to-use format, many video players and video editing programs still can’t support MXF format.

"When I import my Panasonic AJ-PX800 P2 AVC-Intra MXF files to iMovie on my iMac, the iMovie says the MXF video format is not supported, I liking edit videos with iMovie so I don’t want to change my editing software, can you help me to import MXF to iMovie for editing?”



For converting P2 MXF video into iMovie editing friendly format, the best recommendation is Brorsoft MXF Converter Mac, which lets you convert Panasonic AJ-PX800 P2 MXF to AIC, encode MXF to Apple ProRes, transcode MXF to MPEG-2, render MXF to DNxHD, and more. This is a smart tool specially designed for MXF users to preview and convert MXF recordings to your wanted video and audio formats, so as to smoothly add them into iMovie, FCE, FCP, Adobe Premiere Pro, Avid Media Composer and more other video editing software to do further editing. It naturally support converting MXF recordings shot by a Panasonic P2 camcorders and Canon XF camcorders on Mac OS X. If you have MXF editing issues on Windows PC, get the MXF Converter to solve the problem.

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Easy steps to convert Panasonic AJ-PX800 P2 MXF to iMovie

Step 1. Run the Brorsoft MXF Converter for Mac. Then you can click “Add video” to load the Panasonic AJ-PX800 P2 MXF file into it, or click “Add from folder” to load the entire folder.



Step 2: Click on the dropdown menu of “Format” and then move you pointer to iMovie and Final Cut Express > Apple Intermediate Codec(AIC) (*.mov). The AIC .mov is the compatible format for iMovie, which can make you edit P2 MXF recordings in iMovie smoothly.

Tip: You can click “settings” button to adjust the output video’s parameters, such as resolution, bitrate, frame rate, sample rate, audio channel, etc.

Step 3: Click the "Convert" button and the Mac MXF Video converter would start transcoding Panasonic AVC-Intra P2 MXF videos to AIC MOV on Mac OS X immediately.

After conversion, tap "Open" icon in the main interface to locate result video. Launch your iMovie program to import converted P2 footage to iMovie project with easy editing.

P.S. You can learn more Panasonic P2 MXF files importing and editing tips on Mac and Windows from Brorsoft MXF Colum.

Besides transcoding MXF to ProRes MOV, converting MXF to AIC, Brorsoft MXF Converter for mac also support converting MXF file to various video formats like AVI, MP4, WMV, MKV and converting MXF to various devices like iPad, iPhone 4S, Samsung Galaxy Tab, Apple TV 3, etc.

Further Reading:

Convert MXF to QuickTime MOV : If you have lots of MXF files, chances are you want to convert your camera MXF videos to QuickTime MOV format for uses in Apple software like QuickTime, iMovie and devices like iPhone, iPad, iPod touch etc.

Convert avchd MXF to iTunes: MXF files can't be directly imported to iTunes. So if you want to add MXF video files to iTunes for file management or syncing to Apple devices, you need to convert MXF to iTunes supported formats first.

Import MXF to Adobe Premiere: Wanna convert your MXF files to Adobe Premier without quality loss? Consider it done here. This article can surely help you convert MXF to Adobe Premiere compatible formats, so you can import MXF files to this app for video editing without any trouble.

Convert MXF to Any Format on Computer: Brorsoft MXF video converter for Mac allows you to convert MXF video files to any audio and video format, even device etc.

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