How to successfully load Canon MXF files into Sony Vegas Pro

If your Canon MXF files cannot natively be imported into Sony Vegas Pro, you can convert your source material so that you can load and edit Canon MXF files in Sony Vegas Pro easily. Below is how.

You may face problem when trying to import the MXF files from Canon XF100, Canon XF105, Canon C300, Canon XF305 to Sony Vegas Pro, e.g. Vegas Pro pops up error message for not supporting the .mxf, or the quality of the rendered video footage is degraded.

In order to import Canon MXF Sony Vegas Pro smoothly, you'd need to convert Canon MXF to Sony Vegas Pro supported formats first.



Brorsoft Canon MXF to MPEG-2 Converter will be the best solution here. With this ideal Canon MXF to Sony Vegas Pro Converter, you can convert Canon MXF to Vegas Pro most compatible format like MPEG-2 easily and fast. The video quality won't be reduced through conversion. This powerful video converter also can convert Canon MXF files to Vegas Movie Studio, Pinnacle Studio, Windows Movie Maker, Avid Media Composer, Adobe Premiere Pro and more NLE supported format on Windows. Besides, with its built-in Editor, you can crop, trim, add effects, subtitles to your Canon MXF files as you need. Download the tool and follow the guide below, you will be able to convert Canon MXF to Sony Vegas Pro in few minutes.

(Note: Click here for OS X 10.5)

Guide: Transcoding Canon MXF footage to Sony Movie Studio

Step 1: Click the adding button to add your Canon MXF files to the best Canon MXF to Sony Vegas Converter.
Tips:
1. If you want to merge Canon MXF files, just need to check the “Merge into one” box.
2. You shouldn’t move the single MXF video out of the whole MXF whole structure folder, or the MXF video would be wrong such as without audio.

Step 2: Click on the dropdown menu of “Format” and then move your pointer to Adobe Premiere/Sony Vegas > MPEG-2, which is the Sony Vegas compatible video format. Afterwards, you can set the output folder.

Step 3: Click the “Settings” icon and you will go into “Profile Settings” interface. You can adjust codec, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate and audio channel according to your needs and optimize the output file quality.
Notes:
1. You’d better keep your original video size and set the frame rate as 30fps for adding Canon MXF footages to Sony Vegas Pro.
2. Click Edit button and you can deinterlace 1080i Canon MXF files for Sony Vegas via checking off the “Deinterlacing” box in the Video Editor.



Step 4: Click the "Convert" button; it will convert Canon MXF to MPEG-2 for Sony Vegas immediately. After the conversion is done, you can get the output MPEG-2 video for Sony Vegas, and you can import and edit the file in Sony Vegas without any trouble.



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