Good Way to Import MXF to Zeiss VR One with iPhone 6

Good Way to Import MXF to Zeiss VR One with iPhone 6 for Mac 

Overview: Have a creative idea to watch MXF on Zeiss VR One with iPhone 6? If so, you need a smart and professional converter for help. 

A German company Carl Zeiss just announced VR One, a virtual reality headset for use with a smartphone to give you access to immersive 3D videos, games and augmented reality. The Zeiss VR One offers a Cinema app to enable you to enjoy your movies save in your iPhone in an immersive environment with the lights off. The VR One Cinema app can play .mov, .mp4 file formats. It also can play a side-by-side 3D formatted 3D video. 

The Material eXchange Format (MXF) is an open file format, targeted at the interchange of audio-visual material with associated data and metadata. It has been designed and implemented with the aim of improving file-based interoperability between servers, workstations and other content-creation devices. These improvements should result in improved workflows and in more efficient working practices than is possible with today's mixed and proprietary file formats. MXF is a "container" or "wrapper" format which supports a number of different streams of coded "essence", encoded with any of a variety of codecs, together with a metadata wrapper which describes the material contained within the MXF file. 

In order to watch MXF on Zeiss VR One with iPhone 6, or solve MKV/AVI/FLV/WMV to Zeiss VR One issues, you just need a right program and convert them to 3D MP4 for smoothly playing on Zeiss VR One via iPhone 6. Here Pavtube Video Converter is highly recommended, you can get this job done perfectly. With the latest version 4.8.6.5, this program adds Apple ProRes as output, supports encoding to H.265 MKV and is compatible with Sony/LG/Samsung/Panasonic TVs. If you are running on Mac operating system, you can refer to the equivalent version- Pavtube Video Converter for Mac (review). It works well even on the latest Mac OS X El Capitan. 

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How to convert MXF for watching on Zeiss VR One with iPhone 6? 

Step 1: Download, install and run the corresponding program. Click "Add Video" or "Add from folder" to load your MXF files. 

Step 2: Click the "Format" bar and select "3D Video>>MP4 Side-by-Side 3D Video (*.mp4)" as output format. 

Step 3: Click "Settings" button to customize the output video and audio settings by yourself. But if you are not good at it, you’d better use the default parameters, they will ensure you a good balance between file size and image quality basically. You can change the resolution, bit rate, frame rate as you need. 

Step 4: Go back to the main interface, hit the big button "Convert" there. 

Conclusion: There is no need for waiting for a long time. We can receive the best output files nicely. After conversion, you can get the generated files by hitting "Open" button. You can simply add the keyword "SBS" to the file name of the video, and the app will automatically show the correct content for each eye. 


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Source: http://mxfworld.jimdo.com/2015/08/25/watch-mxf-on-zeiss-vr-one-with-iphone-6/