How to Edit Canon XA50 4K MP4/MXF in Premiere Pro CC?

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Edit Canon XA50 4K MP4/MXF in Premiere Pro CC

Canon XA50 is a popular camcorder that recommended and selected by many professional users, the powerful camcorder can help you to capture high quality 4K videos. In this article, you will learn the best workflow to import and edit Canon XA50 4K MP4 and MXF videos in Premiere Pro CC, you will also get the best Canon XA50 4K video converter to use.

The XA50’s optics include an integrated 15x HD optical zoom and a nine-bladed circular iris for more natural highlights, and wide DR gamma support for low-light recording. The camera’s pro-style features include Dual Pixel and Contrast autofocus, fast- and slow-motion recording, full manual control, optical and electronic image stabilization, a 3″ touchscreen LCD, user-assignable buttons, infrared mode, and a DIG!C DV 6 image processor with high sensitivity and low noise. The XA50 also has display monitoring features such as zebra, color bars, and test tone and a built-in neutral density filter mechanism offering ND4, ND16, and ND64 options.

After got the Canon XA50 camcorder, most users will use it to record high quality videos. From Canon XA50 official product page or its user manual you will know that Canon XA50 can record full HD 1080p videos in multiple frame rates, or capture videos in 4K resolution, and the recorded videos will be in 4K MP4 and MXF format. The 4K format will help you to store high quality videos, but the 4K .mp4 and XF-AVC .mxf files are not compatible with Premiere Pro CC, many users have encountered problems when they import 4K files from Canon XA50 to Premiere Pro CC for native editing, below is an example problem.

Canon XA50 to Premiere Pro CC Question

“Hi, I purchased the Canon XA50 camcorder not long ago to capture high quality 4k videos, can you help me to import 4K files from Canon XA50 to Premiere Pro CC and edit smoothly? I have used XA50 recorded some videos in 4K MXF format. Today I need to edit some 4k footages with Premiere Pro CC, but when I try to import 4k .mxf files from Canon XA50 to Premiere Pro CC, I found the videos can’t be handled smoothly, and I was told by professional Canon users that Canon XA50 recorded 4K MXF files are not compatible with Premiere Pro CC, they suggested me to convert Canon XA50 4K MXF files to supported format of Premiere. Can you show a method to import files from Canon XA50 to Premiere Pro CC and edit natively? Thanks!”

Have you encountered the Canon XA50 4K files’ importing and editing issue just like it showed above? Many Canon XA50 users have encountered this kind of issue, why Canon XA50 4K videos are not natively supported by Premiere Pro CC? The issue is caused by the video codec and format. If you check Adobe Premiere Pro CC supported video formats on its official website, you will know that not all the video formats are supported by Premiere Pro CC natively, and Canon XA50 4K videos are not natively supported, in this case, if you try to load 4K MP4 or MXF files from Canon XA50 to Premiere Pro CC, you will meet with importing and editing issues.

Canon XA50 to Premiere Pro CC Workflow

How can we solve the Canon XA50 to Premiere Pro CC importing and editing issues? The easiest method is to convert Canon XA50 4K videos to Premiere Pro CC native supported video formats, and then you can get rid of importing and editing issues. A powerful 4k video converter will help you to convert 4K MP4 files from Canon XA50 to Premiere Pro CC, it is called UFUSoft MXF Video Converter, this software has Windows version and Mac version, it can work 4K video converter to help you convert all the 4K UHD videos, Blu-ray disc movies and DVD disc movies, you can check its features below.

UFUSoft Video Converter main features:

  1. Convert Canon XA50 4K MP4 files to Premiere Pro CC;
  2. Convert 4K MP4, 4K H.264, 4K H.265, 4K MOV, 4K MKV, 4K MXF, etc.
  3. Rip Blu-ray and DVD discs, ISO files or folder;
  4. Optimized formats for Premiere, FCP X, iMovie, Sony Vegas, etc.
  5. Optimized formats for smartphones, 4K TVs, tablets, etc.
  6. Editing features like trimming, cropping, watermark, 3D, effect, etc.
  7. NVIDIA and AMD video card acceleration technology.

Convert 4K files from Canon XA50 to Adobe Premiere Pro CC

Step 1. Download UFUSoft Video Converter for Mac or Windows version, install this 4k video converter on your Mac or PC, run this Canon XA50 video converter program as the best Canon XA50 video converter.

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Step 2. Click “Add Files” button on the main interface to import the Canon XA50 4K MP4 files that you need to convert, you can also directly drag and drop the Canon XA50 4K videos into the software.

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Step 3. Please click format column and choose output format. To convert Canon XA50 to Adobe Premiere Pro CC, please choose “Editing software -> Adobe Premiere Pro (*.mov)” for output. To edit Canon XA50 4K files with Premiere Pro CC on Windows PC, please choose Premiere WMV format for output; If you want to convert Canon XA50 4K videos to Premiere and then use on Mac, just choose Premiere MOV format.

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Step 4. Click settings button you will be able to adjust output parameters, such as video resolution, bitrate, frame rate, codec or others according to your need. If you don’t need to adjust you can skip this step.

Step 5. The last step is to click convert button to start Canon XA50 to Adobe Premiere Pro CC conversion.

UFUSoft Video Converter for Mac or Windows will convert your Canon XA50 4K videos at fast speed with top quality, when your Canon XA50 files are converted, click open folder button you will get the converted videos, and then you can import the converted Canon XA50 videos to Adobe Premiere Pro CC for editing natively, you will not have any importing or editing issues anymore. Just download this Canon XA50 4K video converter and try as you want.

Tip: Canon XF series and professional camcorders are well supported

UFUSoft MXF Video Converter has good support for Canon XF series and professional camcorders recorded videos, it can support videos recorded by Canon XF705, XF405, XF400, XF205, XF200, XF105, XF100, XF305, XF300, etc. they are popular camcorders of Canon XF series, professional camcorders like XA10, XA20, XC10, XA55, XA50, XA45, XA40, XA15, XA11 are also well supported. Just use UFUSoft Video Converter to deal with your professional videos, it will help you.