Pinnacle Studio is a non-linear video editing software application manufactured by Pinnacle Systems, a division of Avid Technology. The consumer-level editing software allows its users to make their own holiday movies. Plus, the Pinnacle Studio is capable of making your 1080i MXF videos to HD movies where more than 2,000 effects and some other content can be used for incorporating special effects.

It is such a great editing software for "common" people, although you will find the incompatibility problem while importing MXF files to Pinnacle Studio. The key reason is that MXF is not a good editing format. if you want to solve the importing problem with MXF files and Pinnacle Studio, the best way is to convert 1080i MXF to AVI for Pinnacle Studio. It is said that AVI seems to be the best one due to the great video quality but small size.

Here recommended an intuitive MXF to Pinnacle Studio Converter for you. It can support all kinds of MXF files, including those shot by Canon/Panaosnic/Sony camcorders and exported from other editing softwares and encode MXF to AVI. In addition, you can also do some simple editing work with it, such as combining several clips into one for easy importing/editing in Sony Vegas, trimming videos, deinterlacing 1080i videos, adding text/image/video as watermarks to your original files, replacing audio tracks, adjusting brightness/contast/saturation of the imported files, etc.

Guide: How to transcode 1080i MXF files to AVI for editing in Pinnacle Studio

Step 1: Get the free MXF to AVI Converter and install it on your PC. Run the trial version to import your MXF footages.

Tips:1) If you want to combine all the files together for easy importing to Pinnacle Studio, please tick the box "Merge into one" on the main interface.2) Double click on the selected file and you can have a preview on the viewer. 3) You can click the Browse button to choose the output destination as you like. After the conversion, you can click the "Open" button to find the converted AVI files.

Step 3: Adjust the video and parameters, including the Bitrate of Video and Audio, the Codec of Video and Audio, Video Size, Sample Rate, Frame Rate, Audio Channels, etc., by clicking the Settings buttion on the main interface. The screen shot listed below is our recommendation on the settings for you.

Tip: The 1920*1080 as video size and 30fps for NTSC area while 25fps for PAL area as Frame Rate are the best settings for editing in Pinnacle Studio.