Convert Sony XDCAM to MPEG-2 for Sony Vegas Pro Editing

Convert Sony XDCAM to MPEG-2 for Sony Vegas Pro Editing Flawlessly

Summary: Sony Vegas Pro cannot read XDCAM files from Sony camcorder? Is that true? Some issues between Sony XDCAM and Sony Vegas are asked frequently online. So this article can give you an example of converting Sony XDCAM files to MPEG-2, which can be smoothly editing in Sony Vegas Pro.

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"I have a client who gave me an XDCAM EX .mp4 file to add to his project, but Vegas Pro 12 doesn't like it."

"Can Sony Vegas export to a Quicktime wrapped XDCAM HD422 1080i60 file format? If so, does it support that format natively or do the XDCAM codecs have to be installed separately? If separately, can you get those codecs from Sony?"

What are the best supported video formats for Sony Vegas Pro? This may be the top point for all Sony users I think. Frankly speaking, to bypass all issues while editing Sony XDCAM videos in Sony Vegas, first please make sure you copy all the files in the media card folder to your source footage drive, keeping the folder name and structure intact. Or it would be the format limitation between XDCAM and Sony Vegas Pro. This situation also happens in Premiere Pro, FCP X, etc. So it would be better to own a professional XDCAM converter to work the original files well.

To achieve the goal, the program Pavtube Video Converter can give you some help. Well, this XDCAM Converter allows you to convert Sony XDCAM to MPEG-2 for Vegas Pro 13/12/11/10 with zero quality loss. With the recent upgraded version 4.8.5.1, it can also decode and encode the H.265/HEVC videos so nicely. With several conversion steps, we can easily convert the XDCAM to MPEG-2 especially for Sony Vegas Pro.

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How to Encode Sony XDCAM videos for using in Sony Vegas Pro?

Step 1: Load Sony XDCAM files to the program by clicking "Add video" button, or drag the videos to the software directly.

Step 2: When you come to the output list, just click "Format" bar to determine output format. Follow "Adobe Premiere/Sony Vegas" and select "MPEG-2(*.mpg)" as the output format.

Additional Tips:
Click the "Effect" button to open the Video Edit window to achieve editing MP4 like trim, crop, image, watermark, effect, subtitles and rotate and etc in the corresponding editing pane.
Click the "Setting…" button to open the Advanced Settings window to adjust the output video codec, resolution, bitrates, frame rate, aspect ratio, audio codec, channel, volume and etc in the advanced tab.

Step 3: Go back to the main interface if you have finished the preparation work. Here just hit the "Convert" button and we can easily get the work started.

Conclusion: For smoothly editing your Sony XDCAM files, you won't be troubled in editing original XDCAM in Sony Vegas Pro. Let's have a try! All users can enjoy 30% discount from May 4th to May 6th after the upgraded days! Come on!


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