Canon XA35 Davinci Resolve Workflow-Edit Canon XA35 AVCHD/MP4 videos in Davinci Resolve 9/10/11/12

Can’t open Canon XA35 AVCHD files or editing XA35 MP4 videos in Davinci Resolve 9/10/11/12? In this article, we introduce the easy solution to you. Get tips and tricks. 

Not long ago Canon released the XA35 camcorder, it is a professional camcorder that has powerful hardware equipment. Canon XA35 equipped with 1/2.84″ HD CMOS Pro Sensor, 20x Canon Optical Zoom Lens, 2x XLR Audio Inputs with Manual Controls, Dual SD/SDHC/SDXC Media Card Slots, etc. with this professional camcorder you can easily shoot high quality videos. 

With Canon XA35 you can capture up to 1920×1080 video at 23.98p, 29.97p, 59.94p, and 59.94i frame rates, the recordings will be in AVCHD or MP4 codecs. After you bought Canon XA35 camcorder have you recorded some videos with it? Maybe you have recorded some AVCHD MTS files or MP4 files with this camcorder and you are looking for the way to import videos from Canon XA35 to Davinci Resovle 9/10/11/12 for editing smoothly. 

DaVinci Resolve is a valuable on set tool for logging and organizing footage. As it claimed, DaVinci Resolve allows full unlimited editing and grading of DPX, CIN, EXR, QuickTime, ProRes, DNxHD and MXF files all in real time. DaVinci won't import the AVCHD, MP4 files... 

What we need is to find a fast way to get around the Canon XA35 MP4/AVCHD Files to Davinci Resolve incompatible issue. 

 
Based on our multiple testing, we finally work out a solution to editingCanon XA35 AVCHD/MP4 Files in DaVinci Resolve flawlessly. In fact, it is easy, fast and worth the effort. The best way to let DaVinci Resolve work with AVCHD/MP4 clips is to convert these AVCHD/MP4 files to Davinci Resolve most compatible format like DNxHD. Brorsoft Video Converter for Mac is just what you want. 

It provides hundreds of output format presets for Canon XA35 videos, such as DNxHD for Davinci Resolve, Apple ProRes for Final Cut Pro, Apple InterMediate Codec for iMovie, MPEG-2 for Adobe Premiere. Besides, this Video converter is also available to customize the output resolutions to any size like 1080p, 2K as users want. If you are working on Windows(Windows 10 included), please turn to Brorsoft Video Converter. Download the tool and start the Canon XA35 AVCHD/MP4 to Davinci Resolve video conversion. 

Download AVCHD/MP4 to Resolve Converter: 

 (Note: Click here for OS X 10.5)  

Convert Canon XA35 video to DNxHD for editing in Davinci Resolve 9/10/11/12 

1. Load Source Video Files 

First and foremost, download and launch the Video Converter on your Mac. Then, press the "Add" button to add Canon XA35 AVCHD/MP4 video file into the program. Batch conversion is supported, so you can add several files to the converter at one time. 

 

2. Set Output Format 

To encode AVCHD/MP4 files to Davinci Resolve 9/10/11/12, choose Avid Media Composer -> Avid DNxHD (*.mov) as the target format. 

 

3. AVCHD/MP4 Video Settings 

Click "Settings" button if you'd like to customize advanced audio and video parameters like Video Codec, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, Audio codec, sample rate, audio channels. 

4. Start Conversion 

After confirming everything is alright, click the "Convert" button on the bottom right to launch the conversion. 

When the conversion is finished, just run Davinci Resolve and import the generated DNxHD .mov files. You will find the output video work perfectly on DaVinci Resolve 9/10/11/12. 

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