XAVC is an open format that uses level 5.2 H.264/XAVC video compression standard. It can support 4K resolution at up to 60 fps, 8/10/12-bits color depth and 4:2:0/4:2:2/4:4:4 chroma subsampling. XAVC use Material Exchange Format (MXF) as the container format.
Sony has announced two CineAlta cameras that support XAVC format. They are the Sony PMW-F55 and Sony PMW-F5. Both cameras record XAVC with a color depth of 10-bits and 4:2:2 chrome subsampling. The Sony PMW-F55 can record XAVC with 4K resolution at 60fps at 300 Mbit/s and 2K resolution at 120 fps at 400 Mbit/s. The Sony PMW-F5 can record XAVC with 2K resolution at 120 fps at 400 Mbits/s.
As a proprietary format for Sony CineAlta cameras, you may find that this format is not supported by many media players and video editing applications pre-installed on your computer. To conveniently view and edit XAVC video, you can use a video conversion software to convert Sony XAVC video to a more compatible and popular format.
Jihosoft Video Converter is the professional XAVC Converter application that works impressively to accomplish the process of converting Sony PMW-F5/F55 XAVC video to popular SD and HD file formats with original video quality well preserved.
Convert XAVC to common SD video like AVI, WMV, MP4, MOV, MPG, MPEG, FLV, MKV, 3GP, RM, RMVB, ASF, etc or HD video formats including HD AVI, HD WMV, HD MKV, HD MPEG-2, HD MPEG-4, HD H.264 and HD MPEG-TS.
Convert XAVC to device and application optimized video formats to play on iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Android Phone/Tablet, Windows Phone 8/Tablet, Blackberry, PSP, Kindle Fire, CD/VCD/SVCD, etc.
Encode XAVC to Avid DNxHD for Avid Media Composer, rewrap XAVC to Apple Prores to work on Final Cut Pro, transcode XAVC to WMV (*vc-1), MPEG-2 (*mpg) or MOV (*.avc) for non-linear video editing applications.
Trim video into small video segments, crop video size to remove the black borders or unwanted parts, merge multiple video clips into a single one, apply text/image watermark to video, adjust video color effect or add special rendering effect like gray, canny or old film, etc.
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