Compress Sony HDR-PJ440 AVCHD to Avid Media Composer

Summary: If your video converter is not working and you need to convert Sony HDR-PJ440 AVCHD to Avid Media Composer for editing, there is a user-friendly converter for your choice. 

 

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One of my friends has a Sony HDR-PJ440, which is the best camcorder as he thought. He captured many videos with his PJ440 like 1080/60p AVCHD, XAVC S, and he wants to edit the AVCHD recordings with Avid Media Composer thus he can share the videos with us and upload video on the website. But while he trying to import MTS clips from Sony HDR-PJ440 to Avid MC, the program can’t be compatible well with these AVCHD files. 

As far as we know AVCHD format is a delivery codec not for editing, so it is not compatible with many editing software, such as Avid Media Composer. That is to say, Avid MC doesn't supports Sony PJ440 AVCHD well, it takes much time to render. If you want to smoothly import and edit Sony HDR-PJ440 AVCHD video with Avid MC, you should convert Sony HDR-PJ440 AVCHD to MOV format encoded with DNxHD codec, that is best supported by Avid Media Composer. 

Based on our testing, you can get a professional video tool like Pavtube MTS/M2TS Converter for Mac (review) to finish the conversion task. It can easily convert Sony HDR-PJ440 MTS files to DNxHD MOV for Avid Media Composer on Mac OS X without quality loss. It can generate best editing format/codec for filmmakers and video enthusiasts to use in different NLE apps, such as Final Cut Pro 6/7/X, Adobe Premiere Pro CS4/CS5/CS6/CC, Adobe After Effects, iMovie, Final Cut Express, and more. 

  

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How to work Sony HDR-PJ440 AVCHD videos with Avid Media Composer? 

Step 1: Drag and drop source Sony HDR-PJ440 AVCHD videos to the main interface. Or click “Add Video” button to import videos. 

 

Step 2: Set up output format for Sony HDR-PJ440 AVCHD to Avid Media Composer. From format list, choose “Avid Media Composer>>Avid DNxHD (*.mov)” for output. 

 

Step 3: This program offers some editing functions. You can tick “Merge into one file” under the preview window. And click “Edit” button, you can make changes to the video effects as you wish. In the editing window, you can trim your favorite part from the video, crop the frame size, adjust the visual effects, or add watermarks or subtitles. If you want to change the video parameters, go back to the main interface and click “Settings” button, you can select the video encoder, resolution, audio channel and more. This function is something worth trying. You can get the work done splendidly. 

Step 4: Press the “Convert” button to start Sony HDR-PJ440 AVCHD MTS to DNxHD .mov conversion. 

Conclusion: Once finished, click “Open” to get converted videos. Then you could transfer them to Avid Media Composer for editing. 

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