Material eXchange Format (MXF) is a container format for professional digital video and audio media defined by a set of SMPTE standards. MXF is a “container” or “wrapper” format which supports a number of different streams of coded “essence”, encoded with any of a variety of codecs, together with a metadata wrapper which describes the material contained within the MXF file.

The footage shot onto a P2 card in DVCPRO (HD) with Panasonic Camcorders such as AG-HVX200, AG-HPX300, etc are normally save as MXF files. These files, usually known as P2 MXF file for short, are not naturally supported by most media players and editors. When importing the P2 MXF files for playing back or editing, you probably will get an error message. Here I would like to share with you a video trans-coding tool to help you solve the problem—the Pavtube MXF file Converter which is the best  MXF file converter. With this application you can convert MXF files to AVI or QuickTime MOV and various other video formats easily. Audio track can be extracted for collection too.

I really liked how the trial version provided full access to the functions of the software. It allowed me to test the conversion quality. You can download from here:  Pavtube MXF file Converter

The footage shot onto a P2 card in DVCPRO (HD) with Panasonic Camcorders such as AG-HVX200, AG-HPX300, etc are normally save as MXF files. These files, usually known as P2 MXF file for short, are not naturally supported by most media players and editors. When importing the P2 MXF files for playing back or editing, you probably will get an error message. Here I would like to share with you a video trans-coding tool to help you solve the problem—the Pavtube MXF file converter. With this application you can convert P2 MXF file to AVI and various other video formats easily. Audio track can be extracted for collection too.

You may download the trial version of the MXF file converter and give it a shoot. There is not any time limitation, but please note that the trial converts video with a Pavtube logo watermark on the screen. Now please refer to the following guide how to transfer MXF files to AVI with Pavtube MXF Converter.

Step 1. Import P2 MXF to the best MXF file  Converter.
Run the MXF to AVI Video Converter, click “Add” button and browse to the MXF files you’d like to convert, click “Choose” to confirm.

When the MXF files are loaded to the program, you can view the videos from the Preview window. Simply select an item and click the “Play” button. When the video is playing, you may take snapshoot when it plays to your favorable frame by clicking the “Snapshoot” button.

Step 2. Select output format- AVI, Divx AVI, Xvid AVI, HD AVI etc.
Since we are converting MXF file to AVI, what you need is to click on the “Format” bar and select desired AVI format from the profile list.

Pavtube MXF files Converter provides AVI formats with different codec. In order to save storage, you could follow “Common Video”-> “AVI MSMPEG4-V3” (*.avi), “DivX AVI (*.avi)” or “Xvid AVI (*.avi)”. If you are unwilling to degrade the HD MXF video quality, “HD Video”-> “AVI HD Video (*.avi)” is a better choice for you. You may also customize video and audio parameters in Settings panel. Simply click “Settings” button to and set the bitrate, frame rate, channels, sampling rate as desired values.

Step 3. Specify a folder to save the converted AVI files.
Click the small folder icon next to “Output” field and specify an output folder to save converted files. Click “Choose” to confirm.

Step 4. Start transfer MXF files to AVI.
Click “Convert” to start convert MXF files to AVI format when everything’s ready. The MXF file Converter supports batch conversion so you may import multiple MXF files and convert  to AVI at one time. You may also merge them to one file by checking the box “Merge into one file” before conversion starts. After conversion you may click “Open” button to find generated AVI files and use them freely.