With every new Camera, comes many new questions about workflow. The term ‘workflow’ can be fairly broad, but today I am looking at ingesting C300 footage into various non-linear editing systems. Due to format compatibility issues, Canon C300 owners are always having troubles importing C300 MXF footage to Avid Media Composer or Adobe Premiere for native editing. Yes Canon offers plug-ins e.g. XF utility to help users import camera video clips, but only with very limited success. To make things much easier, below is great tutorial for you, guaranteed to edit C300 MXF files with Avid & Premiere smoothly.
To achieve your goal flawlessly, the best method is to transcode Canon MXF files to Avid/Premiere native editable format along with some help from a third-party tool. After that you can open C300 footage in your video editor for further editing. Keep reading for a brief how-to below. continue reading…