Import and Work MP4 Videos in Sony Movie Studio Platinum 12/13/14

If you’re getting caught by the MP4 to Sony Movie Studio Platinum editing issues, just read on to get a definite solution.

I have many MP4 clips, but they won't open in Sony Movie Studio 13. Is there a way to get them in and work with these MP4 files in Sony Movie Studio Platinum in a quick and lossless way? I've research almost everywhere and finally found a decent solution.

Although Sony Movie Studio can support MPEG-4 format, it might not work with all MP4 files due to the codec issue. You need to find another way to perform the task. As we all know, the most compatible video codec for Sony Movie Studio is MPEG-2, then transocoding MP4 files to MPEG-2 with a third party program is an easy way to edit MP4 videos in Sony Movie Studio.

Brorsoft Video Converter is the utility I recommended here to help you achieve the goal. It offers an optimized preset for Sony Movie Studio for easy access. Besides transcoding MP4 to Movie Studio supported videos with optimized settings while keeping the video quality, the all-in-one and easy-to-use toolkit can convert all other popular video formats like MP4, AVI, MXF, Canon/Nikon DLSR MOV, WMV, MKV, FLV, M2TS, VOB, etc. to Sony Movie Studio, Sony Vegas Pro, Adobe Premiere Pro, Windows Movie Maker, etc natively supported video formats with fast encoding speed. See how below about converting MP4 files to Sony Movie Studio format.

Convert MP4 to Sony Movie Studio more edit-friendly MPEG-2 format

Step 1: Import Source files

Load MP4video files to the MP4 to Sony Movie Studio Converter program by clicking “Add” button, or drag the MP4 videos to the software directly.



Step 2: Choose output format

Click “Format” bar and choose "Adobe Premiere/Sony Vegas > MPEG-2 (*.mpg)” as output format on the drop-down menu.



Tip: Before conversion, you can click the “Settings” icon to customize the video/audio settings Bitrate of Video and Audio, the Codec of Video and Audio, Video Size, Sample Rate, Frame Rate, Audio Channels, etc. for Sony Movie Studio.

Step 3: Start conversion

Click the Convert icon under the preview window, and the program will start transcoding MP4 to MPEG-2 for Sony Movie Studio 11/12/13/14.

When the conversion is finished, you can click "Open" button to get the generated .mpg files effortlessly. Afterwards, you can import converted MP4 clips into Sony Movie Studio for further editing.

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