This post is written for people who are intending to work with Sony F55 XAVC 4K footage in Edius 5.5 or 6.5. If you haven’t upgraded to the most recent version EDIUS Pro 7, you may wish to read this post.
Audio only issue with Sony F55 XAVC 4K MXF files in Edius 5.5 and 6.5
“Hi, all, I’ve captured a load of XAVC 4K footage in MXF format using Sony F55 which I want to edit in Edius 5.5, but Eduis 5.5 only opens them as audio files. I tried them on my colleague’s Eduis 6.5 system, it doesn’t open them either, and only got audio in Edius 6.54. Does anyone know how to fix this? Appreciate any and all feedback/help. Thanks.”
Edius is a video editing software package currently developed by Grass Valley. As far as we know, the latest version Edius Pro 7 has added support for XAVC Intra 4K and HD as well as XAVC S Long GOP QFHD and HD. However, if you are still working with the previous version Edius 5.5 or 6.5, you will have incompatibility issues as mentioned above. For a fast and fluid workflow, you are suggested to convert Sony F55 XAVC 4K MXF files to an intermediate format that is compatible with Edius, such as WMV, MOV, DNxHD, etc. This required third party software like HD Video Converter. Read on to find a guide talking about how to transcode Sony F55 XAVC 4K footage for use in Edius.
First of all, download a trial of HD Video Converter
Sony F55 XAVC 4K with Edius – how to convert Sony F55 XAVC 4K footage for editing in Edius 5.5/6.5?
Follow these steps:
Step 1: Open up HD Video Converter as a professional Sony F55 XAVC to EDIUS Converter. When its main interface pops up, click ‘Add File’ to import your source files.
Step 2: Select output format for EDIUS
This converter provides a wide variety of formats as output. You can select a format that is natively supported by EDIUS as target, such as ‘WMV’ and ‘MOV’ under ‘HD Video’ column and ‘DNxHD .mov’ under ‘Avid Media Composer’ column.
Convert Sony F55 XAVC to HD WMV for EDIUS
Transcode Sony F55 XAVC to DNxHD .mov for EDIUS
Step 3: Modify video and audio settings
If necessary, you can click ‘Settings’ button and go to ‘Profiles Settings’ panel to modify video and audio settings like video encoder, resolution, video bit rate, frame rate, aspect ratio, audio encoder, sample rate, audio bit rate, and audio channels. 3D settings are also available.
Step 4: Start conversion
When ready, click ‘Convert’ to start file conversion. As soon as the conversion finished, you can click ‘Open Folder’ to get the exported files for working in EDIUS easily and directly.
If you don’t want to wait for the entire conversion process, you can tick off ‘Showdown computer when conversion completed’ and go away to do other things.
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