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Make Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX80 XAVC S edited by After Effects CC

Admin — Wed, 08 Jun 2016 06:15:14 +0000

The Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX80 is a point and shoot camera, which in general means it is more portable than DSLRs but takes lower quality pictures. Within point and shoot cameras, the Cyber-shot DSC-HX80 is classified as a basic compact camera, which are designed to give users decent image quality (above that of a smartphone) with optical zooming capabilities at a reasonable price point. They’re one of the most portable options on the market as well, with the exception of ultra compact models. While editing with After Effects CC, many folks have high wishes for After Effects CC to add support for 4K XAVC-S footages from Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX80. If you’re in such a situation, you can read on to learn more.

Granted, up to now, After Effects CC supports Sony XAVC Intra encoding without much problem, but in fact, editing Sony FS7 4K XAVC-S in After Effects CC. Thankfully you probably don’t have to buy a new computer… but you’d better to convert such high definition 4K XAVC-S videos from Sony FS7 to After Effects CC using mpeg-2 as primary delivery format to solve the incompatible trouble.

Pavtube Video Converter for Mac (read review) is the versatile 4K XAVC-S to After Effects CC transcoding software on Mac, the one used here can meet your demands with its simple interface, but rich functions:

Transcode Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX80 XAVC S files to After Effects CC editable formats with keeping video quality.
Convert MXF, MTS, MOV, MP4, MKV, H.265, 3GP, etc to After Effects CC.
Provide simple editing function like trimming, cropping, adding special effect and inserting subtitles.
Compress 4k XAVC videos to 1080p files with smaller size for smoothly editing
Allow you to set the video/audio output parameters to get customized video effect.
Convert SD/HD/4K XAVC-S files to editable footage for Avid Media Composer, FCP, FCE, iMovie, Avid Studio, Adobe Premiere, After Effects, iPhoto, Kdenlive, Keynote, etc.
Rewrap 4K videos for playback on iPhone (6S/6S Plus), iPad (Pro/Mini 4), Galaxy Note (5), Roku (4), Apple TV (4), etc.

All these are reasons why this 4K XAVC-S video Converter for Mac worth a try. Thus, it is highly recommended on many forums. So, what does the workflow look like?

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– Cnet Download: http://download.cnet.com/Pavtube-Video-Converter/3000-2194_4-76179460.html

How to Transcode Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX80 XAVC S to After Effects supported file formats?

Step 1: Load Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX80 XAVC S files

Launch the Video Converter on your Mac, and you can either click “File” button to import Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX80 XAVC S files, or directly drag and drop the files into this program.

Step 2: Select MPEG-2(*.mpg) as output format

Click the “ Format ” button to choose output format from the dropdown list. For better editing on After Effects CC, choose “ Adobe Premiere/ Pro/Sony.. ” > MPEG-2 (*.mpg) is one of the best compatible video formats for you to choose. You also can choose WMV (VC-1)(*.wmv)/MOV(AVC)(*.mov).

Tip: Click the Settings icon to adjust video and audio parameters on the Profile Setting as you need to get the best quality video.

Step: 3. Start Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX80 XAVC S to AEF conversion

Hit the “Start conversion” button at the bottom right corner, let this smart Video Converter to do the rest for you! If you have added quite a bunch of video files, it would take some time to convert. In such case, you can click Option and tick the box “Shut down the computer after conversion”. When the conversion is finished, you can click “Open” button to get the generated MPG files effortlessly. Launch AE on your PC, choose “File > Import” to get converted MPG files into After Effects CS5/CS6/CC for further editing beautifully. Now using your After Effects to edit Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX80 XAVC S is so easy!

Workflow: H.265/HEVC Footage to After Effects for Editing

Admin — Sun, 04 Jan 2015 11:14:51 +0000

Shot some H.265/HEVC recordings from some 4K HD camcorders? Then you must be a professional videographer who has high requirements of the output footage, right? For further dispose with some Windows NELs, such like the typical one, After Effects, haven’t you ever met some incompatible troubles? Import H.265/HEVC videos to After Effects? I guess we must need some video assistant because the current AE version cannot support the H.265 codec well, right?

Tips: Not only for After Effects, but also for Adobe Premiere pro, Sony Vegas or even Avid Media Composer, etc, H.265, as the newest codec, has not been accepted by these guys yet.

H.265/HEVC—the newest codec that can bring us much than H.264
This is an unexpected but potentially path-breaking announcement. It will take several weeks or months to confirm just what advantages or virtues it offers. Presently, I’m not sure what CPU requirements will be to edit or play h.265. The Cyberlink PowerDirector editing product may already support some h.265, or it will shortly. But I know of no tests. Do you wanna get closer to H.265 transcoder?

To make H.265/HEVC friendly with After Effects, Pavtube H.265 Converter can do you a favor. If you have focused on the Pavtube studio, you won’t miss the recent upgrade version 4.8.2.0 of Pavtube Windows products. This upgraded version is specially designed for the latest codec H.265/HEVC. Cannot import H.265/HEVC recordings to After Effects? Just drop the related worries away!

Windows operation system supported: Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 2000.

Let’s see how does this H.265 to After Effects Converter for us:
Stp1.Download and install the program on our computer as soon as you get into the main interface. Directly drag your files in is not a bad idea. Or here we got other effective ways. Click the ‘Add Video’ icon on the left corner, we can import the source files individually. ‘Add from folder’ is offered for you to load your files in a complete folder.

Step 2. Cause the new version of this H.265 encoder can accept the HEVC files smoothly, it would be easier to load them in. So next for choosing suitable output for After Effect. Just drop down the output list, we suggest you to select the ‘Adobe Premiere Pro/Sony Vegas’>>’MPEG-2 (*.mpg)’ as the best one.

Notes: Form other common ones to H.265/HEVC for output? Also you can find the item you want o the output list. ‘HD Video’>>’H.265 HD Video’ is waiting there for you! Much more time it will cost you if you choose this one as your favorite.

Step 3(Optional) Set your output videos in your own style? Let’s come to the ‘Settings’ interface to see how. To keep the original quality when editing in After Effects, why not adjust the video bitrates and frame rate as default? You will find it will be more suitable for your editing.

From H.265/HEVC to MPEG-2 mpg for a further dispose in After Effects, this H.265 Video Converter did us a big favor with such easy operations. Go back to the main interface, just press on the ‘Convert’ button to finish the preparation work and get started.

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Ingest Sony MTS to After Effects CC on Mac Yosemite/Mavericks

Admin — Mon, 17 Nov 2014 08:33:49 +0000

Summary: This guide here mainly can tell us how to ingest MTS from Sony camera to After Effects CC for a nice editing on the latest operation Mac Yosemite. Why not join us to know how it works if you have similar troubles.

Q:’ I have After Effects full version and recently I work the CC as my favorite. One week ago I shot some AVCHD(.mts/.m2ts) 10 sec long clips, when I play it back it lose a lot of quality. It also very choopy and will not play in fps real time. When I render this 10sec long video its come out to be 700mb and the video also very choppy and skips a lot. What I now want to get to know is how to edit is with my Premiere CC with no quality loss.’

Although Adobe announced that After Effects natively supports AVCHD importing, and mostly you can import MTS to After Effects for editing, you’ll find the movie hops back and forth, or the video quality lost when you play it as the users described below. Maybe here we can recommend you an assistant called Pavtube MTS to Premier Pro CC for Mac, which not only can offer you the best output for Premiere but also with not so much quality lost.

Let’s follow the step-by-step guide below to achieve your goal smoothly.
Copy the .mts files from HD digital camera or camcorder to your computer. Launch the Mac MTS Converter, and you may either click “Add” button to import .mts files, or directly drag and drop the files into this program. To import MTS to Adobe After Effects, I follow Adobe Premiere/ Sony Veags tab and select MPEG-2 (*.mpg) as output format. Alternative formats are WMV, AVI, MOV, DV, etc. If you’d like to combine multiple MTS files to be a single file, you can tick the checkbox “Merge into one file”.

Additionally, as the source MTS files are AVCHD MTS videos and usually with AC3 5.1 audio, you can retain the 5.1 audio by adjusting the audio codec to ac3 and bit rate to 224000bps (or above), then select 5.1 Channels in drop-down list of Channels box as it shows below.

Finally, click the ‘Convert’ button to finish your preparation and after that, start up Premiere Pro CC, follow File>.Import>> File…to load your output videos in.

More related?

Carry Projects from Avid MC to Adobe After Effects?

Admin — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 08:27:02 +0000

Hi, guys, do you know the two popular editing tools called Avid Media Composer and Adobe After Effects? Two excellent editors which have own special characteristics or common points in editing world. So someone may ask for different usage in different occasions, we may choose one as our best. Could we move projects from Avid MC to Adobe After Effects for another editing?

Here we got two solutions to the questions below, any one you can select to meet your needs.

Solution 1. via AAF-— the simplest way to transfer projects from Avid to After Effects. Some details are provided here, you can take a reference. Select the sequence you want to export and go to File > Export….

In the Export As drop down, choose AAF:

The primary reason one exports from Avid to After Effects is to add effects and filters to footage. You don’t want to transcode media or reduce its quality in any way. For this reason, I recommend you select ‘Link to (Don’t Export) Media in the Export Method drop down (as shown above). However, if you’re moving from one computer to another, then it might be a goo
d idea to select ‘Copy All Media’ instead. This way, your clips travel with the AAF file.

As far as audio is concerned, it is pointless to export multiple audio tracks to After Effects. Better to mixdown the audio to one track and export that single track if necessary. If you’re only exporting clips or portions of your sequence, then uncheck Include Audio Tracks in Sequence.

In After Effects, go to File > Import…> Pro Import After Effects…. Click on Modify Settings…:

If you are failed with method 1 above, Here we also get the method 2 instead.
Solution 2. Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate—convert any projects from Avid MC to After Effects.

Supported for any video formats output from Avid MC, we can encode them with the most compatible videos for After Effects. Load your output files from Avid MC to the program Avid to After Effects Video Converter, we can choose the suitable output format such like ‘Adobe Premiere Pro/Sony Vegas’>>’MPEG-2 (*.mpg)’, then click the ‘Convert’ button to start your conversion. Finally transfer your output projects to After Effects with ‘File’>>’Load files’…More details about the conversion you can take the following picture as a reference.

Which one do you like better? Obviously, the second one may attracts your attention with easy operation and multiple functions, am I right?

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How to Get Sony Cyber-shot HD AVCHD Videos on Windows or Mac?

Admin — Thu, 16 May 2013 11:13:24 +0000

Why We Need to Save or Import Sony Cyber-shot Videos onto Windows or Mac?

Cyber-shot is the Sony‘s line of point-and-shoot digital cameras introduced in 1996. Cyber-shot model names use a DSC prefix, which is an initialism for “Digital Still Camera”. And nowadays, more and more people tend to capture their happiest and sweetest moments with Sony Cyber-shot digital cameras. We may shoot lots of smooth and sharp HD (high definition) footages during travelling or family time, and we usually expect to save those great movies to our computer rather than locking them in our camera, then transcode AVCHD MTS to any video formats and edit in video editing programs on Windows like Avid, Adobe Premiere, Sony Vegas, or on Mac like FCP, FCE, iMove, CyberLink PowerDirector, etc. After reading the below article, you may get a clear instruction about how to get Sony AVCHD videos on Windows or Mac for video editing later.

How to import Sony Cyber-shot HD AVCHD videos to Windows computer?

For Windows users:

1. Turn on the computer.

2. Ensure the recording media with the pictures or movies is inserted in the camera.

3. Connect the supplied USB cable to the camera and the USB input jack on the computer.

4. Turn on the camera.

NOTE: The computer automatically detects the UBS connection from the camera and installs the appropriate driver from the Windows 7 operating system. Afterwards, an AutoPlay window appears on the computer screen.

5. In the AutoPlay window, click Import Pictures and videos using Windows.

6. In the Import Pictures and Videos window that appears, click Import Settings .

7. In the Import Settings window, assign the location on the computer to where you want to copy the picture and movie files.

Next to Import images to click the Browse button and then select the desired folder (for example, My Pictures).

Next to Import videos to click the Browse button and then select the desired folder (for example, My Videos).

8. Click the OK button.

9. In the Import Pictures and Videos dialog box, click the OK button.

10. Click the Import button.

Tip: There is a problem that AVCHD is not a playable and editable video format for Avid, Adobe Premiere, or Sony Vegas, and transcoding process is necessary. Use Sony AVCHD MTS Converter to transcode your Sony Cyber-shot AVHCD MTS to DNxHD MOV for Avid, convert Sony AVCHD MTS to WMV for Premiere/Sony Vegas and more.

For Mac users:

Method 1: You could copy and paste your Sony AVCHD videos via a USB cable to Mac computer. Here are the steps.

Tip : This procedure is helpful when you are not using iMove or some other software application to import your video.

Preparation: You need a Mac computer, your Sony camcorder, and a USB cable.

Step 1: Power on your Mac PC

Step 2: Connect the Sony Camcorder directly to the USB cable on your computer. The Sony Cyber-shot camcorder will display as a hard drive on computer.

Steps 3: Turn on the camcorder, navigate to the Sony Cyber-shot hard drive to access the memory stick, select USB Connect, the LCD will show USB Mass Storage. iPhoto may automatically open, if so, just turn it off.

Step 4: On the Finder bar select “Go”, and then “Computer”. Select “No Name” or untitled item. Select the “AVCHD” folder then “BDMV” folder and on the “STREAM” folder.

Step 5: Click on the video you wanna transfer. If you have multiple videos you would like to transfer, press and hold the “command” key, then select the videos by clicking on them. To copy these files, press and hold the command key and the press the “C” key.

Step 6: Select folder you wanna save the videos. Enter that folder, hold the comman key then press the V key, then your videos are be paste to local computer.

Method 2: You can capture and transfer Sony AVCHD videos to iMac/MacBook Pro via iMovie after connecting camera to computer with USB cable.

However, you may face problem when trying to log and transfer AVCHD videos from Sony AVCHD to Final Cut Express (FCE) 4 or Final Cut Pro (FCP) 5. After transferring HD .mts videos from camera to computer hard drive, just run Pavtube Sony AVCHD MTS/M2TS Converter for Mac as the Mac Sony Cyber-shot AVCHD MTS converter to deinterlace and convert MTS to Apple ProRes for FCP X, Import Sony AVCHD MTS to FCE if you want to edit HD videos.

Fix: Canon C300 .MXF won’t render correctly in After Effects CS6/CS5.5/CS5/CS4

Admin — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 11:33:50 +0000

Summary: MXF to After Effects Converter for Mac can best and fast encode Canon C300 MXF files to Adobe After Effects CS6/CS5.5/CS5/CS4 supported AVI, MOV, MPEG, FLV files for editing Canon C300 MXF footage in Adobe After Effects on Mac.

“I’m having trouble getting footage form a Canon C300 to play correctly in AE CS6. It was shot at 1080i/25. The footage jitters on pans as if it were shot at 24p and there is a lot of moiré on diagonal edges of objects.”

“Need help. I shot a project with the Canon C300 in 24p mode. I uploaded the files on my hard drive, but when I drag a clip to After Effects CS4 the audio is out of sync with the footage. Please help is there any way to fix?”

Does the Adobe After Effects CS6/CS5.5/CS5/CS4 support Canon MXF footage?

Much to the disappointment of filmmakers that are not familiar with the .mxf format, the footage created with Canon C300 could neither be imported to Final Cut Pro, nor the latest Adobe Premiere Pro/ After Effect CS6. If you’re stuck with editing Canon C300 footage After Effects CS4/CS5/CS6, the professional and powerful Pavtube MXF to After Effects Converter for Mac may help. The solution is simple – just convert Canon C300 .mxf to .avi or .mov or other formats that After Effect can handle well. Below is a quick guide of converting C300 .mxf to .mov for editing in AE CS6/CS5.5/CS5/CS4.

Before processing:

1. Back up/Transfer the C300 footage to Mac computer – copy the whole XF video folder to your computer hard drive, not just the individual .mxf files.

2. Install Pavtube MXF Converter for Mac ($29). Click here to download a free trialfor test.

Step-by-step Guide: Convert Canon C300 .mxf to AE CS6/CS5.5/CS5/CS4 supported format with best possible quality

Note: this is a Mac oriented solution. For Windows users the Pavtube Studio offers alternative MXF Converter for PC, which is very similar to the Mac MXF Converter.

Step 1. Launch the Mac MXF to After Effect Converter. Click “Add Video” and browse to a Canon .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 XF file structure.

Step 2. Click on “Format” and choose “Common Video > MOV – QuickTime (*.mov)” format as the best codec for editing Canon C300 MXF in Adobe After Effect CS6/CS5.5/CS5/CS4.

Tip: QuickTime MOV format is recommended simply because it also work with Final Cut Pro, iTunes, QuickTime Player and iOS devices (iPad/iPhone). You may also use AVI, MP4, MPG, TS 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 transcode Canon C300 MXF to MOV for After Effect CS4/CS5/CS6 editing on Mac.

After conversion click “Open” to find .mov videos and import converted .mov files to Adobe After Effect CS6/CS5.5/CS5/CS4 for editing.

This Mac MXF Converter also includes Apple ProRes 422 codec for filmmakers to convert C300 MXF to FCP and Avid DNxHD MOV codecfor encoding MXF to Avid Media Composer. Priced at $29, it is a good buy.

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