Professional MXF Converter offers fast MXF Conversion to various video formats

How to convert MXF files to AVI, MOV, MP4, WMV, MPEG-2 and more on Windows and Mac

October 6th, 2012 Updated by Bigasoft Support

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Overview

MXF, short form for Material eXchange Format, is a container format (Like AVI) for professional digital video and audio media defined by a set of SMPTE standards. MXF is fairly effective at the interchange of D10 (IMX) material and is used by more and more professional camcorders like Sony XDCAM, Panasonic P2 502, HVX200 and Canon XF300/XF305 to store video, audio, and programmed data.

MXF files can be opened and supported to edit by many professional video editing programs like Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro via XDCAM Transfer, Avid and more. MXF files, however, are not supported by some basic movie editing program such as Windows Movie Maker and iMovie and cannot be played by many video players and portable players.

In order to be played or edit such MXF files with professional video editing programs, you will need to convert MXF to AVI, MOV, MP4, WMV with the professional MXF Converter and editor for Mac or Windows.

To play and edit MXF on Windows, Windows Movie Maker, Xbox you can convert MXF to AVI or WMV.

To play and edit MXF on Mac, QuickTime, Zune, iPod, iPad, iPhone, Apple TV, etc you can convert MXF to MP4, or convert MXF files to MOV to play on Mac, QuickTime and iMovie.

To import MXF to Final Cut Pro, you can convert MXF to DV or convert MXF to ProRes MOV to add to Final Cut Pro for edit.

You can also convert MXF to any desired video formats with the professional MXF Converter.

3 Steps to Convert MXF to AVI, MOV, MP4, WMV, etc with MXF Converter

Make Preparation: Download and Install Bigasoft Total Video Converter

Free download Bigasoft Total Video Converter (Windows Version, Mac Version), When the installment is finished, launch the program.

About Bigasoft Total Video Converter:
Bigasoft Total Video Converter for Mac, also works as professional MXF Converter can convert MXF files to AVI, MOV, MP4, WMV, MPEG-2, MKV, FLV, 3GP and more on Mac (Mountain Lion included) or on Windows (Windows 8 included). In addition to convert MXF files, the MXF Conversion tool can also edit MXF files like trim, crop, merge, add water mark, and keep metadata and more.

Step 1 Add MXF files to MXF Converter

Click "Add File" button to load your MXF files to the MXF Converter

Tips:
You can select all the MXF files and drag and drop them to MXF Converter. Or drag and drop the folder where your MXF files are to the MXF Converter to load files to the converter.

Step 2 Set desired output video format

Take convert MXF to AVI, MP4, MOV for example. To convert MXF to AVI, click the "Profile" drop-down list and choose "HD AVI Video (*.avi)" from the "HD Video" category.

To convert MXF to HD MOV, choose HD QuickTime Video (*.mov) form "HD Video" category.

To convert MXF to HD MP4, choose H.264/MPEG-4 AVC Video (*.mp4) from "HD Video" category.

Editing Tips before convert:
The MXF Converter allows basic editing of your MXF Converter. Click "Trim" button to clip unwanted video parts. Click "Crop" button to crop unwanted video area. Click "Effect" to add effect to you video like adding watermark, adjust video image.

Step 3 Convert MXF to AVI, MOV, MP4, etc

Now everything is set, press the big button at the bottom to start the conversion of MXF to AVI or MXF to MOV, WMV, MP4, etc. When the conversion is completed, click "Open Folder" right beside of "Destination" to fast locate the converted files.