Editing Sony a6000 XAVC S in Avid Media Composer

Read this article, you will know how to import and edit Sony a6000 XAVC S footage in Avid Media Composer flawlessly. 


Sony adds XAVC S and high bitrate video to a6000. After recording some XAVC S files, how to work these XAVC S in Avid Media Composer?

We can import videos like MXF, MXF to Avid using AMA plugin. But as you find, the plug-in does not seem to support XAVC-S. Well, XAVC S codec is a new one, and is not widely supported, including Avid Media Composer.

The best solution to edit Sony a6000 XAVC S in Avid Media Composer is to convert XAVC S to DNxHD, which ensures best results when using in Avid Media Composer. Brorsoft Video Converter for Mac is the solid tool to help users make the XAVC S to DNxHD .mov transcoding on Mac OS X. It’s easy for you to transcode XAVC S footage shot from Sony a6000 to Avid MC highly compatible DNxHD MOV, ensuring maximum editing quality and efficiency when working with Avid Media Composer. Windows users please get Video Converter.

Convert Sony a6000 XAVC S for Editing in Avid Media Composer

Step 1: Import XAVC S videos

Install and run the XAVC S converter on your Mac, then run it. Click on “Add”, and browse your files; select all the XAVC S files you wanna convert. If you want to combine all the files together for easy importing to Avid, please tick the box “Merge into one” on the main interface.



Step 2: Choose DNxHD as output format

You just need to go to “Avid Media Composer -> DNxHD (*.mov)” as the best video format for editing XAVC S in Avid with good video quality.



Tips: Adjust video, audio settings

Click the “Settings” button and customize proper video/audio parameters including Video size, bitrate and fame rate and more.

Step 3: Start XAVC S to DNxHD conversion

After all necessary settings, hit the convert button to start encoding XAVC S to Avid DNxHD on Mac OS X.

Once the conversion finished, click Open to get the output videos. Create a project and start editing Sony a6000 XAVC S in Avid Media Composer 5/6/7/8 without any issue.

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