XAVC is the latest video format developed by Sony,XAVC uses level 5.2 of H.264/MPEG-4 AVC which is the highest level supported by that video standard. XAVC can support 4K resolution. To serve the consumer market, "XAVC S" employing MP4 wrapping format is also introduced as its expansion of XAVC.
XAVC videos is usually recorded by the newly-bought Sony PMW-F5/F55 camcorder. And currently, few video editing program can edit XAVC videos such as Final Cut Pro, iMovie or Kdenlive. Kdenlive supports all of the formats supported by FFmpeg (such as QuickTime, AVI, WMV, MPEG, and Flash Video), and also supports 4:3 and 16:9 aspect ratios for both PAL, NTSC and various HD standards, including HDV and AVCHD
So powerful as Kdenlive is, it can still edit XAVC videos directly unless you convert XAVC videos to Kdenlive supported videos. Here, you can turn toXAVC to Kdenlive Converter for Mac which can fast and best convert XAVC to Kdenlive compatible videos on Mac (including the latest Mac 10.9 Mavericks).
XAVC to Kdenlive Converter can convert Sony PMW-F5/F55 XAVC files to MOV for editing natively with Kdenlive on Mac so as to edit Sony F5/F55 XAVC footage in Kdenlive on Mavericks 10.9 with ease. Besides, it can also convert XAVC to other popular files such as AVI, WMV, MPG, MP4, FLV, 3GP, MKV, VOB, ASF, RM, RMVB etc on Mac 10.9
Step by step to convert XAVC to Kdenlive on Mac 10.9
Step 1. Import Sony F55/F5 XAVC videos
Click "Add" button or "Add from folder" to load XAVC files from F55/F5 to be converted.
Step 2. Choose MOV as output format for Kdenlive.
Click the drop-down list of "Format", and follow "Common Video"> "MOV-QuickTime (*.mov)" for this XAVC to MOV natively transcoding for Kdenlive. By choosing this profile, you will get MOV video with the least loss of original video quality.
Step 3. Start Sony XAVC to MOV conversion.
Click "Convert" button at the right-bottom corner and this Mac XAVC to Kdenlive Converter will start this conversion for further editing Sony F55/F55 XAVC in Kdenlive on Mac.