I want to buy a new camera, I am looking at two cameras now wording if you have any suggestion. Sony HDR-AX2000 and Canon XF100 (This makes the MXF files), I know Sony HDR-AX2000 recording AVCHD, it’s not native for FCP, so this would need to transcode to Apple Pro Res. But where I am unsure, is MXF. Can I just import them directly into final cut?

You may not realize that you are not posting on a FCP forum, but happily you have [accidentally?] posted on a forum that offers a free video editing platform similar to FCP called Kdenlive, available from http://kdenlive.org

Kdenlive features free-style editing very similar to the drag-and-drop style popular in legacy FCP, about as many filters (greenscreen, blurs, sharpening, etc), a phenomenal colour correction system (it's curve based!), and, best of all, free and permanent access to all of your data - in other words, Kdenlive will not suddenly deprecate all of your old projects the way FCPX has done to legacy FCP projects.

The cameras you are looking at are fine cameras, but I'm wondering why you are mentioning those specifically. I have found the quality of DSLR cameras to be unbeatable; even a Canon T5 or T4 or T3i, which can be gotten for no more than $700 (US) have a quality that I just don't see any of the Panasonics matching. They use H264 codecs, which import quite nicely into Kdenlive.

If you're set on the camera models you have mentioned, I'd probably go with the Sony, which can also record in AVCHD and hopefully will import into Kdenlive.

Good luck! and welcome to Linux video editing, if you do end up trying Kdenlive. Kdenlive tends to be best on some stable Linux distribution rather than trying to make it work on Mac or Windows, so try out an easy Linux distribution like http://linuxmint.com and see what you think.

vinazhang wrote:I want to buy a new camera, I am looking at two cameras now wording if you have any suggestion. Sony HDR-AX2000 and Canon XF100 (This makes the MXF files), I know Sony HDR-AX2000 recording AVCHD, it’s not native for FCP, so this would need to transcode to Apple Pro Res. But where I am unsure, is MXF. Can I just import them directly into final cut?

No worry about that problem, you can just update your FCP X to 10.1.4 , and this version supports MXF files natively.