Does the Adobe After Effects support Canon XF300 MXF footage?
“Hi All.. we are considering picking up a Canon XF300 as our acquisition camera. However I heared that these Canon XF300 MXF files can’t work with After Effects natively. Will we need to transcode via Prelude? Thanks…”
“This .MXF files shot on a Canon XF300 Things were working fine, but suddenly I am unable to open those mxf files in AE CS6. Even projects previously created with AE CS6 now won’t open, and give me the ‘file damaged or unsupported’ error message in AE. Why does this happen? Any help would be much appreciated.”
As above, much to the disappointment of filmmakers that are not familiar with the .mxf format, the footage created with Canon XF Camcorders can’t be imported to After Effect smoothly. If you need to edit Canon XF300 MXF in Adobe After Effects, you are suggested converting the Canon XF300 MXF clips to an AE friendly format.
And here the professional and powerful MXF to AE Converter can help you do the job. With it, you can easily transcode Canon XF300.MXF files to Adobe After Effects accepted AVI, MOV, MPEG or other formats that After Effect can handle well. Below is a quick guide of converting Canon XF300 .mxf to .mov for editing in After Effects.
Download Video Converter for Mac:
Download Video Converter for Windows:
Before processing:
1. Back up/Transfer the Canon XF300 MXF footage to Mac computer – copy the whole Canon XF300 video folder to your computer hard drive, not just the individual .mxf files.
2. Install UFUShare Video Converter for Windows or Mac. Click here to download a free trial for test.
Step-by-step Guide: Convert Canon XF300.mxf to After Effects supported format with best video quality
Step 1. Launch the Mac Canon MXF Converter for After Effects. Click “Add Video” and browse to a Canon XF300 .mxf clip and the software will add it to file list. Repeat the operation to load multiple mxf videos. Or you may click the “Add Folder” button to import all the .mxf files in the Canon XF300 file structure.
Step 2. Click on “Format” and choose “Click on “Format” and choose “MOV(AVC) (.mov)” from “Adobe Premiere/Sony Vegas” as the best codec for editing Canon XF300 MXF file in After Effects.
Tips: You may also use AVI, MP4, MPG, QuickTime mov or any other format that AE supports.
Step 3. Click on “Settings” to redefine output quality. You can also set a different video resolution (1920×1080/1440×1080/1280×720/720×480), frame rate (24p/30p), bitrate, audio channels, etc. For users who would like to retain exactly the same settings (without any quality loss), set target settings the same to source video.
Step 4. Click “Convert” to start transcoding Canon XF300 MXF to MOV for After Effects editing on Mac.
After conversion click “Open” to find .mov videos and import converted .mov files to Adobe After Effects for editing.
