Import and edit Sony PXW-FS7 MXF in Premiere Pro CC/CS6/CS5

If you are using a Sony PXW-FS7 camera with Premiere Pro 6.0 or its earlier versions of CS4, CS5, CS5.5, or even Premiere Elements, you may see the error "ERROR COMPILING MOVIE: UNKNOWN" coming up when exporting a movie composed of MXF clips, whether it's to AVI, H.264, etc.. It's enough to make you want to pull your hair out. The Internet is full of discussions on this issue, but we don't know why Adobe can't fix it? The bottom line, however, is that once you convert your Sony PXW-FS7 MXF footage to H.264 using Acrok MXF Converter, there are absolutely no problems regardless of file length…which in our case is perhaps a four minute movie.

We were concerned with possibly losing quality by encoding Sony PXW-FS7 MXF to H.264 for Premiere Pro CC/CS6/CS5 with Acrok. But a side-by-side comparison showed us there was absolutely no discernible difference. We thought some users might want to know this because it permits Premiere Pro CC/CS6/CS5 users to rectify this problem and continue on with it. So we share the workaround here for people who wanna load Sony PXW-FS7 MXF to Premiere Pro CC/CS6/CS5 for edit without meeting the error "ERROR COMPILING MOVIE: UNKNOWN".
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How to encode Sony PXW-FS7 MXF to H.264 to open successfully in Premiere Pro CC/CS6/CS5?

Step 1: Run Sony PXW-FS7 MXF to Premiere Converter and load source MXF clips to it
You can load Sony PXW-FS7 MXF clips to the program through "Add File" button.



Step 2: Choose H.264 as output format for Premiere Pro CC/CS6/CS5
Acrok MXF to Premiere Converter offers optimized format preset for Adobe Premiere. Transcoding Sony PXW-FS7 MXF to H.264, please click "Format" menu firstly and then follow "Adobe Premiere/Sony Vegas" > "MOV (AVC)(*.mov)".



Step 3: Transcode Sony PXW-FS7 MXF to Premiere Pro CC/CS6/CS5 compatible H.264
Tap "Convert" button to start Sony PXW-FS7 MXF to Premiere H.264 Conversion. When the conversion task is done, click "Open" button to get the exported H.264 MOV footage for Adobe Premiere Pro CC/CS6/CS5 to do further editing. Acrok MXF Converter enables anyone with MXF files to use any non-linear editor as long as they convert MXF to a recognizable format, easily done with Acrok!