Monday, June 11, 2018

Premiere Pro CC 2018 Supported Video Formats

The new features coming to Premiere Pro CC take new aim at collaborative editing and motion graphics workflows. In Premiere Pro CC 2018, video creators will find new ways of sharing projects, new ways of VR/360 video storytelling, and new ways to adapt motion graphics to fit project requirements. We all know to the first thing to edit the video in Premiere Pro CC 2018 is to import the videos to it smoothly, at the first step, most editors will meet the trouble, how to import the videos to Premiere Pro CC 2018 and do the happy video editing? You can get the effective solutions in this post.

5 MUST-KNOW NEW FEATURES IN PREMIERE PRO CC 2018

After exploring Premiere Pro CC 2018, here are the 5 new features we're most excited about:

  1. Multiple Open Projects
  2. Shared Projects
  3. Immersive Video Effects and Transitions
  4. Responsive Design tools (Timing and Position)
  5. 8 New Label Colors

Premiere Pro CC 2018 Supported Video and Audio Formats

Formats 3GP, 3G2 (.3gp) AAC  Advanced Audio Coding Apple ProRes M2T
Details Multimedia container format Advanced Audio Coding Audio Interchange File Format Apple video compression format  Sony HDV
Formats ASF   ASND AVC-Infra AVI (.avi) M2TS
Details NetShow (Windows only) Adobe Sound Document Panasonic codec DV-AVI, Microsoft AVI Type 1 and Type 2 Blu-ray BDAV MPEG-2 Transport Stream, AVCHD
Formats BWF DNxHD DNxHR DV  VOB
Details Broadcast WAVE format Supported in native MXF and QuickTime wrappers DNxHR LB, DNxHR SQ, DNxHR TR, DNxHR HQ, and DNxHR HQX Raw DV stream, a QuickTime format Container format in DVD media
Formats GIF H.264 AVC HEVC (H.265) M1V WAV
Details Animated GIF Various media that use H.264 encoding H.265 media with resolutions up to 8192x4320 MPEG-1 Video File Windows Waveform
Formats WMV OMF OpenEXR MXF
Details Windows Media, Windows only Audio Project Format Files in .EXR, .MXR, and .SXR formats Media eXchange Format. MXF is a container format that supports
  • ARRIRAW 
  • P2 Movie: Panasonic OP1b variant of MXF video in AVC-Intra LT and AVC-LongG, Panasonic Op-Atom variant of MXF video in DV, DVCPRO, DVCPRO 50, DVCPRO HD, AVC-Intra
  • Sony XDCAM HD 18/25/35 (4:2:0)
  • Sony XDCAM HD 50 (4:2:2)
  • AVC-LongGOP
  • XAVC Intra
  • XAVC LongGOP
  • JPEG2000
  • IMX 30/40/50
  • XDCAM EX

Premiere Pro CC 2018 Supported Native Camera Formats

Usually we take the video with camera, Premiere Pro CC 2018 can support the following native camera formats

Camera ARRI AMIRA camera Canon XF, Canon RAW Phantom Cine media Sony cameras
Details Premiere Pro provides built-in support for the ARRI AMIRA camera, with appropriate color LUTs applied as master clips on import. Canon XF and Canon RAW footage, including footage from Canon Cinema EOS C300 and C500 cameras. Import and edit Phantom Cine media shot on Vision Research Phantom cameras.
  • Sony XDCAM
  • Sony XDCAM 50
  • Sony XAVC
  • Sony XAVC LongGOP (Group of Pictures)
  • Sony XAVC-S
  • Sony SStP
  • Sony RAW (F65, F55, F5, FS700 cameras)  
Camera CinemaDNG Panasonic AVC, P2 cameras RED support
Details
  • Blackmagic Cinema Camera
  • Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera
  • Convergent Design Odyssey7Q
  • Panasonic AVC Ultra
  • Panasonic AVCi 200
  • Panasonic AVC Ultra Long GOP (Group of Pictures)
  • Panasonic P2 cameras and across multiple P2 cards
  • Color Science like REDcolor2, REDgamma2, and REDlogFilm
  • RED ONE
  • RED EPIC
  • RED Scarlet-X cameras with support for RED Rocket
  • Red Dragon including RED Dragon 6K

How to Import Any Videos into Premiere Pro CC 2018 for Editing

You may met this situation: fail to import some video to Premiere Pro CC, how to do? Most reasons are the video format incompatibility issue, you just need one video converter and convert the video to Premiere Pro CC 2018 friendly video formats, that's all. I highly recommend you  Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate (to get Mac version) which is an excellent video converter with the high stability and fast video conversion speed, you can import the multiple videos with different video formats and video size, for example: You can load the MP4, AVI, FLV, VOB, even including the DVD and Blu-ray disc, disc images and folder, you also can load the 4K , 8K videos to it, and output the Premiere most compatible video format - "MPEG-2".

Apart from ouput the Premiere presets with the best settings, this software also supplies massive optimized device presets for Apple devices, Android devices, non-linear editing software, game console, and others. This software also allows you to adjust the video parameters, like the video codec, audio codec, you can solve the codec incompatibility issue. For better video compatibility, you also can adjust the video frame, video resolution, video bitrate, audio sample rate, etc.

Even though this video converter is not a professional video editor, you still can so some simple video editing with the built-in video editor, you can add the funny subtitles to video which can support the SRT, ASS, SSA subtitles, you also can replace the music in video, trim the videos to clips, etc. More features, you can download it and have a try.

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Quick Guide: Convert video to Premiere Pro CC 2018 supported videos

Step 1. Load the videos

You can open this software and load the videos by clicking File, you also can drag the videos to it directly. If you want to save much time and energy, you can add the folder which holds multiple videos and do batch video conversion, you only can output the same video formats when you choose the batch video conversion.

Load the videos

Step 2. Choose output videos

Click Format button to start the output video list, you can choose one videos from different category, like the Common Video, HD Video, 3D Video, or the NLE preset.

Output Youtube best uploading format

To output the best video format for Premiere, you can navigate your cursor to "Adobe Premiere/Sony Ve..." and select "MPEG-2 (*.mpg)".

for premiere

If necessary, you can enter the video setting window and adjust the video related parameters, you also can compress the videos by adjusting the video resolution, for example: You can compress the 4K to HD video by adjusting the video resolution from the 3840p to 1080p, or compress the HD video to SD videos, you also can adjust the video frame and bitrate for uploading to YouTube, Facebook, Vimeo, etc.

H.264 MP4

Step 3. Start the video conversion

Final step is coming, you just need to press the Convert button to start the video conversion. This software will finish this task with lighting fast speed.

When you get the perfect videos, you can import it to Premiere Pro CC 2018 and have a happy video editing.

Monday, June 4, 2018

How to Edit Sony 4K XAVC S with FCP

You can get high bit rate of 4K 100Mbps through use of the XAVC S format via Sony/Panasonic/Canon camcoders. As for post shooting, the 4K video content from the camcorder can be played back directly on a compatible 4K television through the supplied HDMI cable, or in super-sampled Full HD when connected to an HD TV. How about working them with Final Cut Pro?

Import Sony XAVC S to FCP with Sony Plug-in

As we all know that the XAVC S format record by Sony UHD camcoders is mainly designed to deliver 4K video signals with a resolution of 3840x2160, it is not an the native video editing codec for Final Cut Pro. To fix the workflow of XAVC S with FCP, sony has created a special plug-in for Mac which helps to provide support for XAVC S in FCP allowing viewing and editing capability. However, most people complain that the process to install plug in is very complicated, more worse, the plug-in some times don't even work at all.

Alternative way to ingest 4K XAVC S to FCP

If you are looking for a fast and fluid workflow of 4K XAVC S with FCP, the best way is transcoding 4K XAVC S to Final Cut Pro professional editing codec - Apple Prores 422 codec, a post-production format designed for pristine quality and high-performance Final Cut Pro real-time editing. In addition, if you Mac is very old or not has the capability to handle 4K video, it would be much better for you to compress 4K Prores to 1080p prores to fix video play backs choppy issues.

There is professional solution in hand called Pavtube iMedia Converter for Mac (to get Windows version), which enables you to directly wrap Sony 4K XAVC S to FCP  Apple Prores Codec in different file types.

If you computer is old or slow, or you just want to do some rough editing, you can select to output "Apple Prores 422(Proxy)(*.mov)"or "Apple Prores (LT)(*.mov)"format to save more space and bandwidth. However, if your Mac version is powerful enough to handle multicam and high-resolution video, even the 4K video and you are going to do many effects editing work with FCP, you'd better choose to output "Apple Prores 422(*.mov)"or "Apple Prores 422(HQ)(*.mov)"for better performance.

How to to encode and compress 4K XAVC S to 1080P Prores for FCP?

Step 1: Import 4K XAVC S videos.

From "File"drop-down option, select "add Video/Audio"to add source 4K XAVC S video files to the program.

Import 4K XAVC S videos.

Step 2: Select output file format.

Click "Format"bar, from its drop-down list, select "Final Cut Pro"> "Apple Prores 422(*.mov)"as your desired output file format.

Choose Apple Prores 422 format

Step 3: Adjust video parameters

Open "Profile Settings" window, you can edit video codec, resolution, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate. channels here. To keep the output video resoltuion as 4K, just set it as 3840*2160; to compress 4K to 1080p, you can change the resolution to 1920*1080.

compress 4k proes to 1080p

Step 4: Convert 4K XAVC S to Apple Prores format.

Go back to the main interface and press the "Convert"icon on the right-bottom to start Sony 4K XAVC S to Final Cut Pro Apple Prores process.

When the conversion is done, you can easily import the converted video to FCP  for furthering professional editing.

Wednesday, May 30, 2018

How to Edit AVCHD Files Effortlessly

AVCHD (Advanced Video Coding High Definition) is a file-based format for the digital recording and playback of high-definition video. Developed jointly by Sony and Panasonic, the format was introduced in 2006 primarily for use in high definition consumer camcorders. And AVCHD files generally use extensions like MTS and M2TS, and can not be accepted by many meida players and devices.

By using AVCHD format, you can burn high definition video to a standard DVD disc. Later you can play that DVD disc in a Blu-ray disc player. Thus you don't have to own a Blu-ray disc burner to enjoy high definition video on Blu-ray disc player. AVCHD video can also be outputted to TV via an HDMI cable or components outputs. It can also be transferred and viewed to computer. Whereas, most people prefer editing the AVCHD before sharing or uploading to the social network. So the best way to get full use of the AVCHD is to convert the file to other format like: MPEG, MP4, MOV, MKV, AVI, etc. After that you are able to play the AVCHD file on iPhone X, iPad, Galaxy S9, Xbox One, and editing in iMovie, Final Cut Pro, Premiere, etc.

The Best AVCHD Video Converter for Windows/Mac

Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate is an application that you can use to encode AVCHD media files to multiple formats, including MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, H.265, DNxHD, ProRes in MP4, MKV, AVI, WMV, MOV formats. The interface of the program is clean and pretty intuitive. AVCHD files can be imported into the list by using the file browser, by the way the "drag and drop" method is also supported. Batch processing is allowed so that you can add multiple AVCHD files to batch convert AVCHD to any video format you desired with this software. To edit AVCHD effortlessly, you can convert AVCHD to MPEG for Premiere, Sony Vegas editing. If you are Mac users, you also can choose to output "Apple InterMediate Codec(AIC)(*.mov)", "Apple ProRes 422 (*.mov)" for iMovie/FCP postproduction.

Since you can adjust the video bitrate and resolution, you can make the output AVCHD video more compatible with your devices. With the built-in video editor, you can merge multiple AVCHD files into a single one file and you also can trim the AVCHD file to cut off the unwanted part. You also can add external subtitles to the AVCHD file to make the file easier to understand.

Steps to Convert AVCHD to Premiere/Sony Vegas/FCP/iMovie Compatible Video Formats for Further Editing

Step 1: Load protected AVCHD files into the program.

Install and launch AVCHD video converter program on your computer, click "File" > "Add Video/Audio" or "Add from Folder" to load AVCHD files into the program. You also can directly drag and drop the AVCHD files into the software. Batch conversion is supported here.

load avchd

Step 2: Choose output file formats.

Click "Format", from its drop-down option, you can choose MOV, AVI, M4V, MKV, H.264/H.265 MP4, etc. If you want to edit AVCHD with NLE software, you can choose the MPEG-2 preset for NLE software from "Adobe Premiere/Sony Vegas" category.

MPEG format

Choose the "Apple InterMediate Codec(AIC)(*.mov)", "Apple ProRes 422 (*.mov)" for iMovie/FCP postproduction from "iMovie and Final Cut Ex..." and "Final Cut Pro" category respectively on Mac version software.

Option 1.

Option 2.

output for fcp

Click "Settings" on the main interface to open "Profile Settings" window to tweak the output video codec, bit rate, sample rate, resolution, audio codec, bit rate, sample rate and channels to make the output video more fit with your devices or programs.

Check an item to active the "Video Editor" function, then click the pencil like icon on the top tool bar to open the "Video Editor" window, you can trim the AVCHD file length, crop video black bars, add external subtitles to AVCHD files, apply sepcial rendering effect, remove/replace audio in video, etc.

edit avchd

Step 4: Start the conversion process.

After all setting is compelted, press the "Convert" button in the right-bottom and the AVCHD video conversion process will start automatically. When the covnersion stops, please go to the output folder to get the covnerted files.

Wednesday, May 23, 2018

Top 5 Best 4K Camera Phone You Should Know

More and more often you can see 4K technology everywhere. More and more devices, monitor add support of 4K playback, 4K enables people to pursue the extremely audiovisual enjoyment. Nowadays, you can even shot video in 4K resolution with the smart phone in your hand. The following article will give you top 5 best 4K camera phones for you.

1. Sony Xperia XZ Premium

Sony Xperia XZ Premium

In terms of photography, Sony is one of those respected names in the industry. The Sony Xperia XZ Premium has everything you want when paying top dollar for a phone, with its 4K display and slow motion camera two standout party pieces. It will please Sony fans around the world. The camera has an amazing feature that we loved: it is able to record slo-mo video at only 980 frames per second. With this kind of camera, you can even film a nature documentary because it will catch all the details. However, we also need to tell you this up-front: you do need a good light.

2. Huawei P10

Huawei P10

The Huawei P10 comes with one front camera with 8Mp and two back cameras: one with 12MP and another one with 20MP. Just like it already happened with the previous Huawei models, you can use the 20MP one to take black-and-white photos. However, when you use both rear cameras, your photos will have a better clarity. Although the Huawei P10 comes with the feature that allows you to shoot 4K videos, the fact is that it doesn't offer any stabilization when you're recording at this resolution. As if this wasn't enough, if you use Windows, you won't be able to open them by using Windows's 10 Photos app, VLC, and you won't even be able to upload it directly to YouTube. 

3. Samsung Galaxy S9

Samsung Galaxy S9

The Samsung Galaxy S9 is a great phone, but one that hasn't really kicked on from the Galaxy S8, bringing a very similar design and screen to 2017's version. The improved biometrics were sorely needed, and the camera is a leap forward, but the amazing low light capabilities have resulted in sacrifices elsewhere. Samsung Galaxy S9 comes with a front camera with 8Mp and a rear camera with 12Mp. In case you're serious about shooting 4K videos, you need to know that the sound quality is not the best in the market and that you might have a few problems with the hybrid stabilization system. 

4. iPhone X

iphone x

iPhone X comes with a 7Mp camera in the front and 2 back cameras, both with 12Mp. Losing the home button and altering the design was a dangerous move, but one that was sorely needed after years of similarity and the premium design, extra power, all-screen front mix together to create - by far - the best iPhone Apple's ever made. It's impossible to give a perfect score to something that costs this much - but this is the closest to smartphone perfection Apple has ever got. iPhone X allows you to shot 4K videos at 24/30/60 fps steadily. What's bad is that it is the most expensive flagship phone around.

5. MOTO Z2 Play

MOTO Z2 Play

Featuring a 5MP camera on the front and a 12Mp camera on the back, we can say that the photos taken with the MOTO Z2 Play are among average. While the rear camera includes phase detection autofocus, dual-pixel autofocus, laser autofocus, and a dual-tone LED flash, this should imply that low light photos would have an awesome quality. In what concerns video capabilities, the MOTO Z2 Play allows you to shoot using Full-HD or 4K. Although the videos could be a lot better, they are quite ok. Besides, one of the things that you can easily do is to use the Go Live mode and go live directly on YouTube.

Best 4K Camera Assistant

Convert Any Phone Recorded Video to Non-linear Editing Software

Some day, 1080p will be the past, since the 4K will dominate the market. Finally you made the 4K videos, the next thing you want to do is to edit and enhance video and upload it to social network for sharing. Here we strongly recommend you a 4K editing software and covnerter for you which is called Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate (to get Mac version). It allows you to convert 4K video to iMovie, Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere optimized presets with the best settings. It also can upscale SD/HD to 4K video, and compress 4K to 1080p if you need.

As we know, when you import 4K video into non-linear editing software and the exported file in 4k resolution will has a large size. You will spend a lot of time to upload the render file to Youtube, Vimeo, Facebook. Don't worry, this software also allows you to customize the video codec, bit rate, frame rate, channels, etc to make the most suitable video for your media player, devices. Know more here(guide).

Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate

Wednesday, May 16, 2018

How to Split Large VOB File into Parts

VOB (Video Object) is the container format in DVD-Video media. VOB can contain digital video, digital audio, subtitles, DVD menus and navigation contents multiplexed together into a stream form. Files in VOB format may be encrypted. Besides that normally VOB files are very large, it brings difficulties to VOB transfer and share. Thus, many guys desire one perfect VOB splitter to split the large file into parts for storage and share. And in post, we will sare the best VOB splitter with you.

vob splitter

What we will share with you is a Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate (to get Mac version), with this software, you can not only split encrypted VOB file, digital file formats with verious different file formats but also commercial Blu-ray/DVD disc. The program offers 3 different way for you to split large video files into small equal parts: by file size, file count or time length to satisfy your different video splitting need.

Besides splitting video, this advanced program also offer other beneficial simple video editing function for you. You can flip or rotate video to get it displayed in the right angel, trim or cut video files to remove unwanted parts or segments, crop video to remove the unwanted black bars or area, add image/video/transparent text watermark to video, apply special rendering effect to video, flip or rotate video angel, remove/replace audio in video or merge separate videos into one file.

Tips: To get smaller VOB video file size, you can convert VOB file to MP4, MOV, and other more compressed video formats. And then lower the video bit rate to get smaller video file size. Welcome to download this software, read this tutorial guide and try it.

Hot Guide: 3 Ways to Compress VOB files on Computer

Step by Step to Split Large VOB Video Into Small Parts by File Size, Count or Time Length?

Step 1: Import large VOB video files.

Launch and start the program on your computer, click "File" > "Add Video/Audio" or "Add from Folder" to import VOB source files to the program. For splitting Blu-ray or DVD disc, insert Blu-ray/DVD into DVD optical drive or external Blu-ray drive, then click "File" > "Loadf from Disc" option.

Import large VOB video files.

Step 2: Define output file format.

From "Format" bar drop-down list, select one of your desired file format to output. If you don't want to loss any file quality, just select to output the same video as original file format by select format from "VOB Format" category. You also can convert VOB to MP4, which is the most popular video format in this world.

Define output file format.

Step 3: Split VOB video into small parts.

By clicking the "Split" button under the file displaying list, checking "Enable" to enable it, and then you can split the file by file count, time length, or file size according to your own needs.

Split VOB video into small parts

Step 3: Trim/Crop/Watermark video.

Select an item on the main interface to active the "Editor" function, then click the Edit icon on the tool bar of main interface to open the Editor Window, you can play and preview the original video and output effects. Also you can flip video, trim, crop, add effect, add watermark, apply special effect, etc.

Trim/Crop/Watermark video.

Step 4: Start VOB video splitting process.

Press the right-bottom "Convert" button to start the large video into small parts or segments splitting process.

When the video splitting is completed, you can find your converted files by clicking "Open output folder" with all splitted small files for convenient sharing, emailing and distributing.

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