Continue reading »]]> Are you a beginner of video editing? Do you want to edit the hundreds of movies shot by cameras, camcorders, Smart Phones, and tablets in various formats? Do you want to save your storage space by trimming and deleting unwanted parts from MTS or M2TS videos without quality loss? Do you want to convert camcorder videos into Apple ProRes, AVI, or other formats for better editing in Final Cut Pro, Avid Studio, Adobe Premiere, Pinnacle Studio, Sony Vegas, Windows Movie Maker, etc? Do you want to remove ads from TiVo shows and watch them on your tablets, SmartPhone or Apple TV?

If yes, you can do all of the above with one simple and easy video editing software for beginners, Pavtube Media Magician, or its Mac version, Pavtube Media Magician for Mac.

Free Download and Trial for Windows or Mac

• Free Trial on Windows
• Free Trial on Mac 10.5 & 10.6
• Free Trial on Mac 10. 7 & 10.8

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What can Pavtube Media Magician (for Win or Mac) help you?

Input:

Camcorder footages: MXF, AVCHD(MTS, M2TS), AVCHD Lite(MTS, M2TS), MOV,TOD, MOD, etc.

Other video formats: *.avi,*.divx, *.wmv, *.wma, *.asf, *.dvr-ms, *.wav, dts in wav, *.rm, *.rmvb, *.ra, *.mov, *.qt, *.mp4, *.3gp, *.3g2, *.dv, *.m4b, *.m4v, *.m4a, *.aac, *.flv, *.f4v from YouTube, Hulu, Fox, etc., *.dat, *.mpg, *.m2v, *.m2t, *.m2ts, *.ts, *.tp, *.evo, *.mkv, *.dv, *.flc, *.fli,*.gxf, *.pss, *.mvi, *.mtv, *.vdr, *.pmf, *.pva, *.k3g, *.vp6, *.nsv, *.nuv, *.dmskm

Output:

Common format: MPEG-2 (*.mpg), MPEG-4 (*.mp4), *.avi, *.wmv, *.mov, *.mkv, *.m2ts

Device: Andoid Tablets and smart phones, Windows Tablets and smart phones, iPad, iPhone, Apple TV, HD Player, PSP/PS3, HDV

Editor:

• For Windows: Avid Media Composer (*.mov), Adobe Premiere & Sony Vegas (*.wmv, *.mov, *.mpg), Adobe After Effect(*.mpg, *.mov), Cybelink PowerDirector (*.avi, *.wmv), Pinnacle Studio(*.mp4, *.mpg).
• For Mac: iMovie and Final Cut Express (*.mov), Avid Studio (*.mov), Adobe Premiere (*.wmv, *.mpg, *.mov), Adobe After Effect (*.mpg, *.mov), Apple Aperture (*.mov), Final Cut Pro (Apple ProRes MOV).

Lossless: Original format (*.mts, *.m2ts, *.mod, *.tod), MKV (*.mkv)

Online: YouTube (*.mp4, *.webm)

Features:

Import/ backup/ manage camcorder footages
The smart camcorder wizard helps connect camcorders to PC and import directly from camcorder or backup camcorder videos to local.

Lossless output from AVCHD MTS to MTS or MKV
Output Apple Prores MOV, lossless MTS/MKV, MPEG-2/4, AVI/WMV/MOV/MKV/M2TS.

Output Apple ProRes MOV for editing in FCP without rendering (Mac only)
As long as you have right version of FCP installed, you can output Apple ProRes MOV like Apple ProRes 422, Apple ProRes 4444, etc.

Timeline editing easily trim, cut, delete, and join
To output videos you can drag relative source from resource list and trim, cut, delete, and join. You can seek the clip frame by frame.

Add 3D and other special effects to clips on timeline
Want to get 3D effect to your clips? It’s easy with Media Magician. Just a one click, you can add the effect. And you can also add simple Gauss blur, old film, etc.

Enlarge or reduce original volume
If the volume is too large or too small, you can drag bar in Volume Adjustment section to enlarge or reduce.

Adjust brightness, contrast, and saturation
For footages shot with low light or bad color, you can easily make them better with the help of brightness, contrast, and saturation adjustment.

Easily choose output formats with one click
With the preset output profiles, you can choose the right settings with just one click.

Output different formats from the same sources on timeline
In conversion settings section, you can create several conversion tasks with different output formats and output from the same sources placed on timeline.

Directly upload videos to YouTube
The converted videos can be uploaded to YouTube directly as long as you have set your account and relative information.

Output M2TS, MPEG-4/2, MKV, MOV, WMV, AVI files
It supports output formats like M2TS, MPEG-4 (*.mp4), MPEG-2 (*.mpg), MKV, MOV, WMV, and AVI. You can reset parameters with ease.

Easy steps to edit videos with the easiest & best video editing software

Step 1. Import video clips from hard drive or camcorder.

If importing from camcorder, clicking on the camcorder button, Media Magician will help you detect the camcorder videos. You can preview and choose which one to import, sort them by year/month/date/type, or backup files to Local hard drive.

Step 2. Before editing or converting, you must drag the imported clips to timeline.

On the timeline, you can cut, trim, delete, rearrange clips without difficulties.

Put your cursor on the preview window while the video is playing, you can choose the specific frames for trimming or cutting. If you imported original MTS or M2TS files with same parameters, trim and cut the videos on timeline, and choose lossless output format in conversion tab, you will get the MTS or M2TS files trimmed or cut without any quality loss. This will help you always keep useful clips and periods. Save your storage space and keep you from spending money on those expensive storage spaces.

Step 3. Edit the video by Add effects, adjust brightness and volume, etc.
You can go to the right tabs to add special effects like aged file, simple gauss blur, gray, etc. If you shot the video in vertical or upside down, you can easily flip it to the right location with just one click. If the video is shot in dark environment, you can even adjust it to make it brighter. Volumes also can be enlarged or reduced easily.

If you like, you can also add red-blue or red-green 3D effect to the video.
Note: Options in this section will not take effect on the clip if you want to output lossless video formats.

Step 4. Choose the right output format and convert in batch.

Switching to the conversion tab, you can create conversion tasks by clicking the “+” button. Highlight a task on the left, and you can choose the output format on the right under relative category. Clips you placed and edited on the timeline can be output into different formats in batch.

Note:

1. Lossless: Only MTS/M2TS/MOD/TOD format videos with the same parameters can be output without loss. You can either output original format or MKV format.

2. Online: As long as you have inserted your account info, you can upload the output video automatically after conversion. And the video can be saved into MP4 or WebM format.

3. If you are using the Mac version, you can output Apple Prores format for importing and editing in Final Cut Pro without rendering. But you must install Final Cut Pro 7 or above in advance.

With the different output formats options, you can convert videos for editing in non-linear video editing software, Android/ iOS/ Windows 8 Tablets & Phones, uploading to Youtube and more. You will find it an all-in-one and intuitive video editor and converter.

Find the words too annoying? The following animation will show you the steps to edit videos with Media Magician.

Reviews from customers of Pavtube Media Magician and Pavtube Media Magician for Mac:

1. Works well on Windows 8. Successfully transcoded a .TiVo file to MP4 format.

– D.C.

2. Runs flawlessly on Win7. It does lots of things Moviemaker can’t do, like changing brightness etc. The conversions can be very useful as well. For me it is good to have. Thanks

– Sepp

3. …The benefit of lossless trimming for me is that often I set up one or more cameras at an event and let them roll, sometimes for hours. This is done in anticipation that something interesting might occur in that camera’s field of view in the next couple of hours. Out of all those hours there might only be a few minutes I really want to keep. This results in enormous files with only a few seconds of really good footage. Ideally I wish to keep only the good bits and delete the rest but so far I’ve found no way to extract the bits I want to keep and delete the rest without any loss of video quality…

– Doug Thompson

4. Installed fine on Mac 10.7 and Win 7 ultimate 64.

– Beth

5. Pavtube Media Magican! Perfect for my use. I shot movie of my younger daughter few years ago. And with today I succeed to take still pictures out of the movie. And same time I edited mistakes out of the movie. I highly recommend it for Mac users!

– Jari, Lahti, Finland

6. Very nice program. I can now leave my PC and some of the editing software I’ve purchased over the years and now use my Mac with Media Magician. I just converted a bunch of Thanksgiving and Christmas videos and added some cool effects as well.

– Trey, Dallas, Texas

7. A very good program, I was able to import an AVI file, crop it to size, then imported an MP4 file, added the two files together play them without rendering and exported to an MKV file within minutes. Highly recommended.

– Stuart, Wordsley, West Midlands

Continue reading »]]> Media Magician for Mac helps manage/backup/combine/convert your camcorder footages and videos for better editing in FCP/ FCE/ Avid Studio/ iMovie/ Adobe Premere/ Adobe After Effect/ Apple Aperture, playback on iPad/ iPhone/ Apple TV/ Android Tablets, and sharing on YouTube.

The simple editing functionalities help you frame-by-frame trim, join, cut, delete clips on timeline; add 3D and gauss blur effects, etc. You can flip video horizontally, vertically, clockwise, or counter-clockwise as well. Volume can also be enlarged or reduces for output.

Moreover, the conversion management list helps create conversion tasks with clicks and output files with different formats from same sources placed on timeline. You can output lossless MTS/MKV from MTS source files which makes it possible to lossless join your camcorder AVCHD MTS clips into one in seconds. (click the Guides to learn more solution)

In a word, it’s a useful HDcam assistant software with smart camcorder wizard helps make better use of your camcorder videos.

Product Page: http://www.pavtube.com/media-magician-mac/

System Requirements

• 1G Hz or above Intel processor.
• Mac OS X Leopard (10.5), Snow Leopard (10.6), Lion (10.7), Mountain Lion (10.8)
• 512 MB physical RAM (memory) or above.
• 1024*768 or higher resolution display.

Giveaway

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Continue reading »]]> If you want to accurate Split/Cut Video Clips or Fast Join & Merge together multiple video files for playback but have no idea of what app to use on your Mac computer, refer to our 2016 Top 5 Best Mac Video Splitter/Cutter and Fast Video Joiner.

• 1. Pavtube Video Converter for Mac
• 2. Pavtube Media Magician for Mac
• 3. QuickTime Pro ($30)
• 4. iMovie (Built-in Free App)
• 5. MPEG Streamclip (Free)

Top 1. Pavtube Video Converter for Mac ($35)

Introduction: Pavtube Video Converter for Mac is an all-in-one Video Converter on Mac OS X. It is able to do format conversion among various popular video and audio formats, including Flash Video/YouTube video (*.flv, *.f4v), HD Video (*.tod, *.mod, *.mov, *.mts, *.m2t, *.m2ts, *.ts, *.tp, *.trp, *.evo, *.mkv, *.dv ), General Video (*.avi, *.mpg, *.wmv, etc), QuickTime video(*.mov), DVR Videos (*.tivo) and more. In that way, you can edit or play your video files with different video editing software and universal portable players. The Mac video converter helps you to convert video files for your new iPad 3, iPhone 5, Apple TV 3, Galaxy Tab 2, Kindle Fire HD, Nook HD Tablet,Surface RT/Pro, iTunes, QuickTime Player, iMovie, FCE, Final Cut Pro, Avid Media Composer, iDVD, and more.

Supported Formats:

Input: Video formats (*.avi,*.divx, *.wmv, *.wma, *.asf, *.dvr-ms, *.wav, dts in wav, *.rm, *.rmvb, *.ra, *.mov, *.qt, *.mp4, *.3gp, *.3g2, *.dv, *.m4b, *.m4v, *.m4a, *.aac, *.flv, *.f4v (YouTube, Hulu, Fox, etc.), *.dat, *.mpg, *.vob, *.mod, *.tod, *.mxf (partial), *.mov from JVC, Panasonic, Cannon, Sony cameras and camcorders, *.m2v, *.m2t, *.m2ts (Blu-ray), *.ts, *.tp, *.evo, *.mkv, *.dv, *.tivo); Audio formats (*.au, *.mp3, *.mp2, *.flac, *.ape, *.ogg, *.8svx, *.aiff,*.aif, *.caf, *.dts, *.smv, *.tta, *.voc)

Output: *.avi, *.wmv, *.asf, *.mpg, *.mp4, *.3gp, *.3g2, *.mov, *.mkv, *.m4v, *.vob, *.dv, Apple ProRes 422 (*.mov), Apple ProRes 4444 (*.mov), DVCPRO (*.mov), HDV (*.mov)

Split/Merge Features:

• 1. Merge multiple AVI, WMV, MP4, MPG, etc files into one big file.
• 2. Trim a duration from each video clip and combine these individual clips into one file.
• 3. Split one video file into 2 or more files evenly.
• 4. Split one video clip by every specified time frame (e.g. split a TiVo show by every 20 mins).
• 5. Split one big file by specified file size (e.g. split and save one MKV into VOB by every 1000MB).
• 6. Export video in AVI, MP4, MPG, MKV, etc with specified quality (high, medium, low quality).
• 7. Split large movie files quickly into H.264 videos for Android/iOS/Windows devices

Top 2. Pavtube Media Magician for Mac ($45)

Pavtube Media Magician for Mac is a user-friendly package designed for video transferring, compressing, converting and entry-level video editing. It helps you transfer any AVCHD (and other HD cam) videos to Mac HDD, make your own film with some basic editing, and upload your masterpiece to YouTube. Also, it gets your MTS, M2TS, TOD, MOD, MOV, MXF video into the correct format to suit your project of Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere Pro, Avid MC,iMovie/FCE, etc. No matter you are an experienced videographer or a video-editing novice, you will be very impressed with its easy-to-use process and its compatibility with a wide variety of cameras/camcorders footage, such as MXF, AVCHD*(MTS, M2TS), AVCHD Lite*(MTS, M2TS), MOV, TOD, MOD, MP4, AVI, etc.

Supported Formats:

Media Magician for Mac supports the same import and export formats as Pavtube Video Converter for Mac does.

Split/Merge Features:

• 1. Merge multiple AVI, WMV, MP4, MPG, etc files into one big file.
• 2. Cut out junk frames from each video and join the rest clips while exporting your self-made film.
• 3. Export video in AVI, MP4, MPG, MKV, etc with specified quality (high, medium, low quality).
• 4. Split large movie files quickly into H.264 videos for Android/iOS/Windows devices

Related Guide:

• How to trim/cut avchd mts clips frame by frame
• How to split and join videos for uploading to YouTube
• How to Trim/Cut MP4 files from Gopro
• How to split/cut/reorder/rerge/re-wrap AVI clips
• Combine HD footage in MTS, MP4 and MOV formats into a single video
• Cut/Join Sony Cyber-shot W730 H.264 MP4 videos clips for iMovie 11
• Combine/Join raw 1080 60p/50p MTS for streaming to DLNA-compliant Players

Top 3. QuickTime 7 Pro ($30)

QuickTime 7 Pro can convert your media to different formats, so you can watch a movie or video on your iPhone, iPod, and Apple TV. You can also use QuickTime 7 Pro to record video and share everything you make with friends and family. QuickTime Player Pro lets you import and convert tracks from compact disk (CD) audio to QuickTime, AIFF, or WAV. You can also import karaoke files into QuickTime Player Pro and maintain the text track. QuickTime Player Pro lets you import MIDI files, modify them (change instruments, for example) and save them as QuickTime audio, AIFF, or modified QuickTime MIDI. With QuickTime 7 Pro, you can record audio and video directly from your built-in iSight camera, FireWire camcorder, or microphone. You can even trim what you’ve recorded to the ideal length.

Supported Formats:

Input: MOV, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, 3GPP, 3GPP2, JPEG, DV, Motion JPEG, AVI, MQV, H.264, AIFF/AIFC, Audio CD, CAF, MOV, MP3, MPEG-4, AU, WAV, iTunes audio

Output: H.264, MPEG-4, Sorenson Video, H.263, H.261 (MP4, MOV, M4V, 3GP, 3G2)

Split/Merge Features:

• 1. Take several video files and merge them into one video movie or slide-show.
• 2. Split large movie files quickly into H.264 videos for iOS devices.

Top 4. iMovie (Built-in Free App)

iMovie is a proprietary video editing software application sold by Apple for the Mac and iOS (iPhone, iPad, ipad mini and iPod touch). iMovie imports video footage to the Mac using either the FireWire interface on most MiniDV format digital video cameras or the computer’s USB port. It can also import video and photo files from a hard drive. From there, the user can edit the photos and video clips and add titles, music, and effects, including basic color correction and video enhancement tools and transitions such as fades and slides. The latest iMovie 11 has the ability to make trailers for home movies, more control over audio, instant replay and flash and hold effects, facial recognition, news themes, and the ability to watch the video on a Mac, iPad, iPhone/iPod touch, or Apple TV, as well as sharing on Facebook and YouTube.

Supported Formats:

Input: DV, DV Widescreen, HDV 1080i (25 and 30 fps), HDV 720p (25 and 30 fps), MPEG 4 Simple Profile, iSight, AVCHD (.mts, .m2ts)

Output: MOV, MP4, M4V, MPEG-4, M-JPEG, QuickTime

Split/Merge Features:

• 1. Join together all the video sequence in the current iMovie project.
• 2. Cut out junk frames from each video.

Top 5. MPEG Streamclip (Free)

Despite its slightly unintuitive user interface, MPEG Streamclip is a highly effective and versatile video encoder and converter. MPEG Streamclip is more than a simple encoder. It also works as an editor, converter and player. The application supports almost any video format and can export converted files to any format of your choice. Despite its slightly unintuitive interface, which might put off first time users, MPEG Streamclip is actually relatively easy to use. Just select your file, choose a compression type and let MPEG Streamclip do the rest. You’ll find a wide choice of settings which will let you adjust quality, encoding level and bitrate of videos among other things.

Supported Formats:

Input: MPEG, VOB, PS, M2P, MOD, VRO, DAT, MOV, DV, AVI, MP4, TS, M2T, MMV, REC, VID, AVR, M2V, M1V, MPV, AIFF, M1A, MP2, MPA, AC3

Output: MOV, AVI, MP4, DV

Split/Merge Features:

• 1. Join (stitch) together multiple video files
• 2. Handle multiple audio tracks and works with files larger than 4GB

Continue reading »]]> In this post, you will get the info about how to Split, Cut, Reorder, Merge, Re-wrap AVI clips from Nikon Coolpix S6500 for editing, playing on Windows or Mac?

The orange Nikon COOLPIX S6500 Digital Camera is a point-and-shoot with a 16MP CMOS image sensor that enables you to capture low-light shots without a flash. When the light is just too low, the built-in flash is there to provide extra illumination. The camera also has a 3.0″ LCD with HVGA resolution. The 12x zoom NIKKOR glass lens covers a wide-angle to telephoto effective focal length range of 4.5-54.0mm, equivalent to 25-300mm in 35mm format. This makes it great for group shots, close-up portraits, and everything in-between. Lens-shift Vibration Reduction helps keep every shot steady, even if your hands are not, by compensating for camera shake. Maximum ISO sensitivity is 3200.

Hold down the shutter button to shoot in continuous mode at up to 7fps to freeze motion without blur–ensuring you don’t miss those shots from fast-action sequences. Capture Full HD 1080p video with stereo sound, as well.

The Nikon COOLPIX S6500 recorded videos in AVI format, you may want to transfer Nikon COOLPIX S6500 AVI footages to Windows or Mac computer for editing, here we recommend you to take a try on Pavtube Media Magician (Mac Version: Media Magician for Mac), which is an excellent video editor and video converter, this software also has optimized formats for output, such as for Sony Vegas, Avid MC, Adobe Premiere, Windows Movie Maker, Pinnacle Sutdio, Cyberlink Power Director, etc. Now you can follow the easy guide below to use Pavtube Media Magician(Windows/Mac) to convert Nikon COOLPIX S6500 AVI clips on Windows or Mac.

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How to Split, Cut, Reorder, Merge, Re-wrap Nikon Coolpix S6500 AVI clips for editing, playing?

Step 1: Add Nikon COOLPIX S6500 AVI footage into Media Magician.

There are two ways available to import source media files:

1. Import from camera

Connect your Nikon COOLPIX S6500 camera with your computer and run Pavtube Media Magician. This Nikon camera companion program will detect your camera automatically and ask “Camcorder is connected. Are you ready to launch wizard now?” Click “Yes” to confirm.

Also, you can click the camera icon to load footage directly from your Nikon COOLPIX S6500 camera.

2. Import from local computer

If you your source h.264 AVI shootings have already been stored on your computer’s HDD, you can click “Import Media Files” or “Import Media Folder” to browse and load your source files.

Step 2: Drag and drop source files onto Timeline.

After h.264 AVI source files are imported into the program, you need to drag and drop the clips that you want to merge and rewrap onto timeline. Keep in mind that all files placed on timeline will be output as one file automatically. So if you want to merge and join several clips, just drag them to timeline in right order.

Step 3: Split/Cut/Reorder/Merge source clips (Optional)

If you would like to cut off unwanted parts of your video file, rearrange them in your wanted order, or merge them into one file, you can use the control buttons on timeline to do this.

The control buttons on timeline help you locate frames accurately so that you can cut, trim, delete, and merge video clips in a much easier way.

Step 4: Re-wrap Nikon COOLPIX S6500 footage to your editing app preferred format

Choose “Output” in the main interface, and click “Plus” icon to add conversion task before selecting output format. And then you can choose output formats for editing software.

When conversion task finished, you can right click on the task list and check “Find Target” to get the generated files for editing or playback. For details steps, you can read Media Magician Guide.

Continue reading »]]> Tricks for Trimming/Cutting and Converting Gopro MP4 files to MOV, AVI, WMV etc. for importing to Avid Media Composer, Sony Vegas, Adobe Premiere, Pinnacle Studio, Windows Movie Maker etc. editing or playing on iPad, iPhone, Apple TV 3, PS3, Android devices, Windows 8 devices, etc. 

As the best “wearable” adventure video/photography camera, the new GoPro Hero 3 continues the legendary line with three new models. Now the entry-level White Edition supports 5MP still capture with 3 fps burst and 30fps 1080p video, the middle-range Silver Edition spots 11MP stills with 10fps burst, and the premiere model the Black Edition features a 12MP camera that can shoot 4K video at 12fps or 1080p video at up to 60 fps.

GoPro Hero 3 records video in H.264 and saves footage as .mp4, which is a good streaming media format for sharing with iPad, Android devices and posting to YouTube. There’s a problem though. When you wear a Gopro camera and let it roll for an hour, it results in enormous files with only a few minutes of really good footage that you really want to keep, so you may need to import the Gopro MP4 video to Windows Movie Maker or other editing app for rough cutting and special effects, while the editing app is likely to reject the Gopro .MP4 because it’s not a editing-friendly format.

Here I’d recommend Pavtube Media Magician to anyone that is seeking for an easy solution to  keep only the good bits and delete the rest from Gopro .mp4 video. This is not a substitute for full-featured video editing software if your goal is professional looking videos. If you’re just doing home movies of summer vacation for the family, and you want to take an hour’s footage and extract only five minutes’ worth for fun, this makes it very quick and easy to do that. It also does a “conversion” and lets you exports editing-friendly format for Windows Movie Maker, Adobe Premiere, Sony Vegas, etc. Below is a short guide showing you how to cut out junks from Gopro .mp4 and export AVI, WMV, MOV, etc video.

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How to Trim/Cut and Convert Gopro MP4 files to MOV, AVI, WMV, etc.?

Step 1. Click on the Import file icon, and select “Import from folder”, browse to the folder that you save the Gopro recordings.

Step 2. Drag and drop video clips to timeline and extract key frames. Here you can remove unwanted clips and trim out unwanted frames by frame-accurate. Also, you may trim, cut, delete, rearrange order, and merge videos.

1. Time Display Controller: Move your mouse cursor on timeline, the opposite time point will be displayed here. Once you entered a time point into the time display box and click enter, the Preview Window and Timeline will switch to the frame of this time point. This helps to locate to the accurate frame that you want.

2. Zoom in and Zoom out: Drag the bar on top-right of timeline to Zoom in or out for better view.

3. Preview: Highlight a clip on timeline and click Play button, you can preview. Double click on a clip can also begin preview.

4. Trim: Put your cursor to the start or end point of a clip on timeline until it changes to trimmer. Drag the trimmer and you can trim off unwanted starting or ending.

5. Cut: Drag the pointer to the right place; Put your cursor to process bar under preview window and select the right frame; Click the Scissors button and you can cut the clip. And then you can rearrange order or delete.

6. Delete: Highlight the unwanted clip on timeline, and click Delete button. You can also delete it with right-click menu.

7. Rearrange order: Drag and hold a clip to the right place until the place line shows. Drop the clip and it will be placed right there.

8. Merge & join: All files placed on timeline will be output as one file. So if you want to merge and join several clips, just drag them to timeline in right order.

On the preview window, you can use Frame Selection Controller to seek to the corresponding frame of the current image, or seek the previous frame/next frame, which helps to locate frames accurately.

Step 3. Click the Output button on the top and switch it to output interface.

Here you can set common video format like AVI, MKV, MP4, MOV, MPG, etc as well as intermediate codec for non-linear video editing apps. Decide your output format, choose it, and then click on the + sign to add it as a conversion task.

Step 4. Select the task(s) and click on the triangle sign to start exporting MP4/AVI/WMV/MOV video for playing on iPad, iPhone, Apple TV 3, PS3, WD TV, Android device or importing them to Avid Media Composer/Sony Vegas/Adobe Premiere/Pinnacle Studio, Windows Movie Maker etc. for editing and uploading.

Continue reading »]]> The Sony PMW-EX3 is a flash-memory based high definition camcorder capable of a variety of frame rates and resolutions using Sony’s new XDCAM-EX intraframe codec. A “big-brother” to the PMW-EX1, the PMW-EX3 ups the ante by providing an interchangeable lens mount. The mount allows users to put a variety of professional lenses on the camera, including 1/2″ and 2/3″ bayonet mounts (with optional adapter).

Enhancing both usability and workflow efficiency, the PMW-EX3 has an extensive set of features that push the boundaries of traditional handheld cameras, including a continuous record time of up to 140 minutes! Whether shooting in 720p, 1080i, or 1080p modes, the PMW-EX3 has it all covered. Its bevy of output settings lets users take advantage of fast and slow motion, as well as popular frame rates such as the “film-like” 24p mode.

XDCAM EX is a variant of Sony’s popular XDCAM HD codec, which has become a benchmark for affordable non-linear professional acquisition. Through the use of flash-based memory, the PMW-EX3 can take advantage of variable bit rate (VBR) recording. Its recordings are in .MP4 format.

Can Avid split BPAV .MP4 files from Sony PMW-EX3?

You may have the need to import Sony PMW-EX3 MP4 recordings to Avid Media Composer for editing, can Avid split BPAV .MP4 files from Sony PMW-EX3? The answer is no. As Avid Media Composer best supported video format is DNXHD codec MOV format, it can’t supports BPAV .MP4 files from Sony PMW-EX3 natively. According our multi-testing, Avid doesn’t do Sony PMW-EX3 MP4 clips. You can’t edit Sony Cyber-shot MP4 clips natively in Avid Media Composer directly.

Solution: Import Sony PMW-EX3 MP4 to Avid MC on Mac for easier editing

Since Avid Media Composer natively supported video format is Avid DNxHD, thus, you should transcode Sony PMW-EX3 MP4 to Avid DNxHD with this professional Mac MP4 to Avid DNxHD Converter. The MP4 to Avid Converter for Mac comes with an optimized format preset for Avid editing software, which enables users to convert Sony Cyber-shot MP4 to DNxHD MOV for using in Avid Media Composer directly.

Software need: Pavtube Media Magician for Mac

Step 1: Add Sony PMW-EX3 MP4 files into Media Magician for Mac

Connect your camera with your Mac computer and run Pavtube Media Magician for Mac. This camcorder companion tool will detect your camera automatically and ask “Camcorder is connected. Are you ready to launch wizard now?” Click “Yes” to confirm.

In the mean time, you are allowed to backup Sony PMW-EX3 MP4 directly from camera to local computer. Also, you can click the camera icon to load camcorder videos as well.

Step 2: Drag and drop Sony PMW-EX3 MP4 onto Timeline
After source Sony PMW-EX3 MP4 clips are imported into the Media Magician for Mac program, you need to drag and drop the clips that you want to transcode to DNxHD MOV onto timeline.

If you would like to cut off unwanted parts of your Sony PMW-EX3 MP4 clips, rearrange them in your wanted order, or merge them into one file, you can use the control buttons on timeline to do this.

The control buttons on timeline help you locate frames accurately so that you can cut, trim, delete, and merge video clips in a much easier way.

Step 3: Convert Sony PMW-EX3 MP4 to DNxHD MOV for Avid Media Composer

Choose “Output” in the main interface, and click “Plus” icon to add conversion task before selecting output format. Then switch to “Editor” > “Avid Studio” and click “Start” to begin exporting Sony PMW-EX3 MP4 to DNxHD MOV for Avid Media Composer. Then you can get the converted DNxHD (*.mov) files for importing and editing in Avid MC.

Continue reading »]]> “Can any MTS/M2TS Converter repack (remux) Canon 1080i 50 Hz h.264 M2TS-container file to h.264 MKV-container (or MP4-container) file with no recoding (no conversation) – saving the original video stream? The M2TS file format is a real pain. It is touted as HDTV Friendly, but in fact my HDTV will play just about any video file format (directly from an SDHC memory card) except M2TS!! I’ve tried a few MTS/M2TS Converter software, all of them take long time (some files even hours) to convert Canon M2TS, and export MKV video with image loss! I want fast packing and the original quality. Anyone know a best app to remux Canon M2TS to MKV? If possible, I’d like to join some M2TS clips as well….”

You surely want to convert camera video files with no image loss. Then, what you should do is “rewrap” files with Pavtube Media Magician. AVCHD MTS and M2TS files can simply be remixed using this app. I’ve remuxed tons of 1080i Canon MTS files just fine to MKV. And here’s a short guide of how I did.

Guide: Repack h.264 M2TS to MKV container without recoding

1. Import M2TS from Canon Camera or local archive.

Connect the Canon camera with your PC and run Pavtube Media Magician. This camcorder companion tool will detect your camera automatically and ask “Camcorder is connected. Are you ready to launch wizard now?” Click “Yes” to confirm. In the mean time, you are allowed to backup MTS footage directly from camera to local computer. Also, you can import Canon 1080i h.264 M2TS from local archive as well.

2. Drag and drop Canon M2TS video to timeline for organizing/merging/joining.

In timeline you can remove unwanted .M2TS clips, trim out unwanted frames from specific clip by frame-accurate, and put them into the right order for merging M2TS file while remuxing M2TS to MKV.

3. Set lossless remux mode for exporting M2TS video

Choose “Output” in the main interface.

Then switch to “Lossless” > “original” or “Lossless” > “MKV” so as to set Media Magician to remux M2TS to MKV without encoding.

4. Remux M2TS videos to MKV with no conversion Finally press the “+” sign to add the task and click the triangle sign to begin repacking MTS/M2TS/TOD/MOD to MKV with no recoding/recompression

If you’re working on Mac, download Media Magician for Mac instead. There’s another good feature for Mac users – when you have pain importing MTS/M2TS/TOD/MOD/MXF video to iMovie or Final Cut Pro, you can use the app to export Apple Intermediate Codec or Apple ProRes 422 video for natural editing.

Continue reading »]]> “I have a Panasonic P2 AG-HVX200 camcorder which records MXF footages, and I use L&T to load videos to FCP on Mac Mountain Lion 10.8. This way is easy to import but it is not good for editing, because it takes long time to render after the importing. How can I shorten the process? Is there a way to import Panasonic P2 MXF to Final Cut Pro without rendering? Thanks for help”.

Panasonic AJ-HPX3000 Panasonic’s top of the line camera is a 1920×1080, 10-bit 4:2:2 color sampling beauty. It uses a 2.2 million pixel 3-CCD block and records using the new AVC-intra codec to capture true native 1080p images at 24p, 25p & 30p frame rates. This codec, thanks to a low compression ratio at a video bit rate of 100 Mbps (1080/59.94i, 720/59.94p) and the easy-to-edit intra-frame compression system, is suitable for recording fast-moving subjects with no motion artifacts other than motion blur. However, the P2 MXF does not seem to work in Final Cut Pro well. Although it is reported that the “log and transfer” can help import the MXF files, stored onto the P2 card, actually there still exists some problems causing error when importing AG-HVX200 1080/60i MXF to FCP 6/7/X. A better workflow is to convert Panasonic AG-HVX200 1080/60i MXF to Apple ProRes 422 first, as it is the best codec for FCP editing. Below is the simple step-by-step guide for P2 camcorder users to keep and maintain 1080/50 mbps or 100 mbps from Panasonic AG-HVX200/AJ-HPX3000 MXF to Apple ProRes for FCP on iMac/MacBook Pro with Mac OS X, Leopard, Snow Leopard, Lion, Mountain Lion.

• Read More: Flawlessly Import and Edit Panasonic AG-HVX200 P2 MXF footage into iMovie 8/9/11

Cut and Transcode Panasonic AG-HVX200/AJ-HPX3000 MXF to Apple ProRes for Final Cut Pro editing
1. Backup your P2 MXF files structure to local computer.

2. Get Media Magician for Mac installed on your Mac.

Pavtube Media Magician for Mac offers an easy introduction to video editing with support for color adjustment, themes, easy to use effects, a simplistic timeline view and built-in camcorder wizard for ingesting video from camera/camcorder. Moreover, this smart app even exports intermediate codecs and professionals can export ProRes, AIC and DNxHD etc. for further post-production in FCP, iMovie/FCE, Avid, Adobe AE, etc.

Step 1: Run Media Magician for Mac.

To load stored MXF clips on your computer’s HDD, you can choose to “Import Media Files” or “Import Media Folder” to browse and load your source files from computer.

Step 2: Organize and edit Panasonic AG-HVX200 MXF videos in timeline.

Drag and drop the MXF videos to timeline. Here you can remove unwanted .mxf clips, trim out unwanted frames from specific clip by frame-accurate, and put them into the right order for merging. Use the scissor icon to do frames trimming.

Step 3: Choose “Output” on the top of main interface to switch it to output interface.

Step 4: Choose Apple ProRes codec as output format. For importing Panasonic P2 video to FCP, follow the steps to set Apple ProRes 422 preset:

1. Move your mouse to Editor, click on the tab.
2. Select “Final Cut Pro” group.
3. The default output format for FCP is Apple ProRes 422. To use other codec in the ProRes family, just select the desire codec (ProRes LT, Pro, HD, ProRes 4444) from the drop-down list of “Format” bar. Set bitrate and frame rate if necessary.

Step 5: Export Apple ProRes video for FCP 7/FCP X.

Press the plus sign (+) to add task for conversion. Select the task(s) and click on the triangle sign to start encoding Sony MXF to Apple ProRes 422 MOV.

After converting and merging the Panasonic P2 AVC-Intra MXF files, just import Apple ProRes 422 MOV to Final Cut Pro. In Final Cut Pro, follow pull-down menu- File/Import/Files… to import converted Panasonic P2 AVC-Intra MXF footage to FCP 6/7/X without rendering.

• Final Cut Pro Video Files Importing Tutorial: How To Import P2 footage into FCP from P2 card?

Tips: If you would like to edit Panasonic P2 AVC-Intra 50/100 MXF with FCE/iMovie, Avid, Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, etc, you can convert Panasonic P2 MXF to Mac itself bring format like ProRes MOV for FCE and iMovie, or transcode Panasonic AVC-Intra MXF to H.264 MOV, DV, AVI, M4V, MPG for Avid, Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects on Mac.

• Avid Media Files Importing Tutorial: How to Import Media Files to Avid?
• iMovie Videos Importing Workflow: How to Import Video files, Projects to iMovie?

Continue reading »]]> “I just received the neat Sony HDR-TD10 camera and I’m trying to figure out the particulars of the MTS files that it shoots. Now I’d like to merge multiple Sony HDR-TD10 .MTS without losing quality, so that I can stream the result AVCHD footage smoothly over Wi-Fi to PS3 in full HD quality. The HDR-TD10 also shoots in 3D mode, so I’d prefer some tool that let me merge 3D .mts video as well. I’m working on iMac with OS X Mountain Lion. Thanks. ”

There are some MTS converters that can convert your media (HDR-TD10 MTS video) in mp4 file as I read in previous posts, but you will definitely loose a lot of details doing it. This Mac MTS Converter can encode 3D MTS to MP4, if you don’t mind. For lossless merging of Sony HDR-TD10 MTS clips, I find the Media Magician for Mac a best solution. Using the software, you can merge m2ts/mts files (2D or 3D) together without losing quality. Overall, this is a best solution to easily re-mux m2ts/mts files produced by Sony HDR-TD10 or other similar camcoders in order to stream them smoothly over Wi-Fi to PS3 in full HD quality. Below is a guide for your reference.

Tutorial: Remux AVCHD MTS/M2TS camera videos without recompression on Mac

1. Import source files into Media Magician for Mac Run Pavtube Media Magician for Mac, load source videos into it.

Learn the details on How to import source videos into Media Magician for Mac

2. Drag and drop Sony HDR-TD10 MTS video to timeline

In the Timeline panel of Pavtube Media Magician for Mac, you can copy a video clip by “Duplicate This Clip” in the Timeline. You can also change the start time and end time of a clip to trim/cut off unwanted parts in a movie clip. To remove clips, select one or more clips in the sequence and press “Delete”. You can also change the order of clips once they are there in the Timeline. If you would like to split a clip into two parts, you can drag the cursor/pointer to the right place and click the “Cut” button to cut off the clip.

Read More: How to Duplicate, Trim, Split and Delete a Clip with Media Magician for Mac.

3. Remux Sony HDR-TD10 MTS videos with no conversion on Mac

Choose “Output” in the main interface, then switch to “Lossless” > “original” or “Lossless” > “original”. Click “Plus” icon to add conversion task, and click “Start” to begin merging and remuxing Sony TD 10 MTS without recompression on Mac.

Soon after the rewrapping task is finished by Media Magician for Mac, you can add the generated MTS file to your Mac media server and play the 2D/3D MTS video to PS3 over Wi-Fi. Enjoy it!

Continue reading »]]> Have you ever met the similar issue? And do you know the reason? Have you find what is the best way to solved the problem and get Panasonic GH3 50p AVCHD to Avid Media Composer? The Media Magician will help you.

Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH3 Reviews

They are really pushing the combination high-quality still and video in one camera. They have really helped their cause by adding a headphone jack for monitoring to the camera along with a flip-out 3-inch LCD screen. This is the cheapest camera available to offer this feature.

The Panasonic GH3 once again focuses on video as much as photo performance. From the specs we can see that the new Lumix DSLR records at much higher bitrate video. AVCHD capture is now at up to 1080/50p. However, the big news is a QuickTime mode that records at 1080/24p, 1080/25p or 720/50p using an unusually high 72Mbit/s bit rate and all-intra compression. Unlike normal AVC compression, this describes each frame from scratch rather than updating areas that have changes since the last frame. It should give less compression artifacts than the heavily compressed AVCHD output from the GH2, particularly for fast-moving scenes. QuickTime 1080/50p capture is at 50Mbit/s, and while it doesn’t use all-intra compression, it should still give better results than the GH2’s 24Mbit/s maximum bit rate. It supports several video recording formats:

• H.264 MOV: [Full HD] 1,920 x 1,080, 50p, 25p, 24p; [HD] 1,280 x 720, 50p
• AVCHD (MTS/M2TS): [Full HD] 1,920 x 1,080 50p/50i/24p
• MP4: [Full HD] 1080 25p; [HD] 720 25p; [VGA] 480 25p

The 1080/50p shooting mode brings Full HD 1920x1080p video with best possible quality, but it could be a problem if you’re working AVCHD footage in Avid Media Composer. Avid does not support the 50p footage. So far I am still not able to import the 1080/50p from my Panasonic DHC-TM900. But still the 50i AVCHD is very good to see on a 42 inch plasma screen.

Here’s a solution for importing 1080/50p to Avid with the help of 3rd-party app Pavtube Media Magician for Avid, a nice camcorder assistant manager and AVCHD editor. When serving as an intermediate decoder, the software can convert 1080/50p AVCHD .mts/.m2ts video into Avid DNxHD .mov format, which is naturally supported by Avid Media Composer.

How to get Panasonic GH3 1080/50p video into Avid DNxHD .mov format?

Step 1: Import AVCHD clips from Panasonic GH3 to Media Magician.

Connect your camera with your PC and launch Pavtube Media Magician for Windows (If you work on OS X, get Media Magician for Mac). The app will automatically detect your camera and ask “Camcorder is connected. Are you ready to launch wizard now?” Click “Yes” to confirm. Select the 1080/50p video files you’d like to import to AVID, and then press “Start” to import AVCHD to Media Magician library.

• Read More: How to batch manage AVCHD MTS/M2TS footage at One Time

Step 2: Organize and edit Panasonic GH3 1080/50p videos in timeline.

Drag and drop the AVCHD videos to timeline for editing from library. Here you can remove unwanted .mts/.m2ts clips, trim out unwanted frames from specific clip by frame-accurate, and put them into the right order for merging. Use the scissor icon to do frames trimming.

• Read More: How to edit movies on a timeline and frame selection control?

Step 3: Choose “Output” on the top of main interface to switch it to output interface.

In output interface you can set intermediate codec for editing software as well as common video format (AVI, MKV, MP4, MOV, MPG, etc) for compressing AVCHD.

Step 4: Choose Avid DNxHD codec as output format.

For importing Panasonic GH3 1080/50p video to AVID, follow the steps to set Avid DNxHD preset:

• Read More: Panasonic Column   |   MTS Column

1. Move your mouse to “Editor”, click on the tab.
2. Select “Avid Studio” group.
3. The default output format for AVID is “Avid DNxHD 720p(*.mov)”. To export 1080p full HD video, just select the “Avid DNxHD 1080p(*.mov)”from the drop-down list of “Format” bar. Set higher bitrate for better quality if necessary.

Step 5: Convert Panasonic GH3 1080/50p videos and export best format for AVID Studio

Press the plus sign (+) to add task for conversion. Select the task(s) and click on the triangle sign to start encoding Panasonic GH3 1080/50p videos to Avid DNxHD MOV.

After conversion you can refer to this post: How to Import Media contents to Avid Media Composer naturally without rendering/encoding.