How can I convert Canon XF305 MXF video to MOV easily

Which canon camcorder do you have? Do you know Canon XF105? How is the camcorder?

The XF305 is a great ENG camera but it also has the ability to be a good studio camera thanks to functions like: genlock, timecode and HD-SDI BNCs (extras over its twin the XF300). As I said earlier the image quality of this camera is outstanding, at the highest quality settings the XF305 records full 1080p/i HD using 4:2:2 MPEG-2 at 50Mbits/s and records the resulting MXF files on inexpensive Compact Flash Cards, (unlike the more expensive SxS cards for Sony or P2 in the case of the Panasonic AG-HPX250 Camera). You also have the option of recording 720p at up to 50fps. The typical record times when using a 32GB Compact Flash card should give you about 80 minutes at 50Mbits/s and there are two Compact Flash card slots so you can hot-swap between them. There is also an SD Card slot for storing user settings.

The XF305 uses Material Exchange Format (MXF) for its file structure--an internationally standardized container format for the exchange of video and audio material. Using the MXF format, video and audio can be wrapped into a single file along with important metadata.

MXF combines video, audio together with programme data, such as text together termed essence-along with metadata and loads them into a container.

If you have tried, you will know that MXF file can not import to iMovie, FCE, FCP or FCP X for editing, and it also can not be played on QuickTime. Then what should we do. AS we know MOV file is friedly with MAC applications, so if you want to paly and edit MXF file freely, you should convert mxf to mov.

Doremisoft video converter mac is the software that can help you convert MXF file to other format like MP4, WMV, AVI, MOV, MKV, MOD, AVCHD MTS, M2TS, etc. So with this software, you can convert mxf file to play on iPad, iPad 2, iPhone, iPhone 4S, iPod touch 4, iPod nano, Apple TV, etc. and convert AVI to DV, MP4 to MOV, etc. Besides, this software can be a mac pvr software, it will covnert pvr to mp4 mac easily. You can learn how to convert mxf to mov with the converter.

Step 1: Download the trial version of Mac video converter, install it to your Mac and run the program. and click "Add File" to import .mxf footage(s) to the software.

Step 2: Click "Profile" menu bar to select MOV file format in the "Common Video".

Step 3. Hit the big blue button to begin the conversion from MXF file to MOV for QuickTime, iMovie, FCE, etc.