Import edit Canon EOS C300 Mark II MXF in Premiere Pro CC

How to make Premiere Pro CC work great with XF-AVC MXF clips from Canon C300 Mark II? If you are puzzled with this question, you may find a satisfactory answer in this post. It explains a best way to convert C300 Mark II 4K, 2K and Full HD video to AIC for editing with Premiere Pro CC smoothly.

The EOS C300 Mark II Digital Cinema Camera is an evolutionary 2nd generation Cinema EOS 4K camera system with a wide range of new and improved features including 4K/2K/Full HD internal and external recording (including 4K RAW output) and a new 10-bit Canon Log 2 Gamma. This powerful new camera also features an expanded dynamic range of 15 stops, improved Dual Pixel CMOS Autofocus, innovative focus assist engineering and CFast recording technology.

Canon EOS C300 Mark II MXF to FCP X and Premiere Pro CC Converter


While, if you want to edit the 4K/2K/Full HD videos from Canon EOS C300 Mark II, you may find the high quality MXF files are not recognized by most editing software like Adobe Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, Avid Media Composer, etc. So, how to import MXF clips from Canon EOS C300 Mark II to Premiere Pro CC correctly?

As far as I know, MXF is an contain format. It allows for a wide range of content production including intra frame recording and long group of pictures recording. But XF-AVC is not the preferred codec by Non-Linear Editing system(NLE) Adobe Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, Avid Media Composer included. To avoid these problems or limit, it will be better to transcode Canon EOS C300 Mark II MXF footage to a more editing-friendly format, such a Premiere Pro's H.264 MOV, Avid’s DNxHD codec, FCP X's ProRes 422. Acrok MXF Converter for Mac is the solid tool to help users make the XF-AVC converting on Mac OS X.

With it, you can effortlessly encode/re-encode XF-AVC intra footage and MXF shot from Canon EOS C300 Mark II for smoothly importing and editing in various non-linear editing systems (NLE), including Adobe Premiere Pro CC, Final Cut Pro and more. And there is no need to worry about the quality loss.

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How to convert Canon EOS C300 Mark II footage into Premiere Pro CC?

STEP 1: You need to download, install and run the smart MXF to Premiere Pro Converter and transfer your Canon EOS C300 Mark II recordings to the program. Join videos clips via checking the "Merge into one" box.

STEP 2: Click on the "Format" bar and choose a best editable format.
a. Choose Adobe Premiere/Sony Vegas -> MPEG-2(*.mpg) as output format for editing Canon EOS C300 Mark II MXF in Adobe Premiere Pro CC with natively supported video codec.

Convert Canon EOS C300 Mark II MXF to Premiere Pro CC H.264 MOV

b. To convert Canon EOS C300 Mark II MXF to Avid Media Composer, choose Avid Media Composer -> Avid DNxHD (*.mov) as the target format.

c. To edit Canon EOS C300 Mark II MXF in FCP X/7/6, please select Final Cut Pro > Apple ProRes 422 (*.mov) as the output format.
PS: You also can click "Settings" to set video frame rate, video size and Video Bitrate as you want.

STEP 3: As soon as all things are finished, please click "Convert" button to start the Sony XAVC video conversion on Mac OS X.

Once the conversion is 100% completed, you can smoothly copy the converted Canon EOS C300 Mark II MXF files to Adobe Premiere CC.

Additional Tips:
This powerful Canon EOS C300 Mark II Video Converter not only can help you to convert MXF files, but also can help you convert XF-AVC MXF to Final Cut Pro, Adobe PP, Avid MC, iMovie compatible format that you recorded from Canon cameras and camcorders. In other words, this video app can aid you to resolve all the importing incompatible issues on Mac OS X.

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