Two Ways to Convert MXF to AVI (With Tutorial Guide)

Summary: When you feel trouble to play MXF file on your PS4 or edit MXF file on Avid, the solution you should consider is to convert MXF to AVI.

This page collects two ways to help you convert MXF to AVI online and desktop.

• Part 1. Why should convert MXF to AVI
• Part 2. How to convert MXF to AVI with MXF to AVI converter
• Part 3. How to change MXF to AVI online

Part 1. Why should convert MXF to AVI

MXF is a file transfer format for the exchange of programmed material between servers, tape streamers and to digital archives, open available to all interested parties.

As a "container" format, MXF 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.

But it still has some limits or disadvantages. If you want to edit MXF on Windows, you will find that you can't import MXF files into Windows Movie Maker or some other editing software successfully. Even you can't play it! MXF files cannot be accepted by Windows Media Player. In addition, importing MXF files into Xbox also can't be achieved.

There is a good method to solve this problem. You can convert MXF files to AVI video format which is compatible with Windows Media Player, Windows Movie Maker, PS4, Avid, and Xbox 360, etc.

Part 2. How to convert MXF to AVI with MXF to AVI converter

In this part, we will collect some MXF toAVI converters, so that you could convert MXF file to AVI for your device easily.

Now follow the step to convert MXF to AVI video format.

Step 1 Download and launch MXF to AVI Converter

Download and install this excellent MXF file Converter, and then launch this program on your computer.

Step 2 Add MXF files

To add MXF video to this software, you can click "Add Files" button or directly drag any source file to the main interface. This MXF to AVI conversion software supports batch conversion, so you can import multiple files at one time.

Step 3 Set profile

Click the "Convert All to" drop-down button and select the .avi video format fit for your needs from the profile list. You can also click "Custom profile" button to set the detailed video output parameters such as video encoder, resolution, aspect ratio, etc.

Step 4 Convert MXF to AVI

Now if you don't have other requirements, just click the "Convert All" button to start to convert MXF files to AVI. Besides converting MXF to AVI, this magic software also provides powerful clip and edit function, and even help you convert 2D video to 3D files. Just click the corresponding button on the toolbar to open the dialog box and set the detailed parameters. Want to learn more? Click "Help" menu and select "User Help" from the drop-down menu. Then you can get what you want.

You can check the video below

Part 3. How to change MXF to AVI online

If you do not want to download the MXF to AVI converting software to your computer, then you could try the online MXF to AVI converter. There are many online MXF to AVI converting software online, and here we will take Aiseesoft Free Online Video Converter as the example to show you how to convert MXF to AVI.

Step 1 Go to https://www.aiseesoft.com/free-online-video-converter/, and then click "Add Files to Convert" to activate the launcher. Then, choose an MXF file from your computer.

Step 2 Select "AVI" from the "Video" tab, and then click "Convert" to start convert MXF to AVI. Wait for a while, the converted files will be downloaded to your computer.

If your MXF file is damaged, you can read the post to recover MXF file.

Conclusion: This page aims at showing why converting MXF to AVI and the two ways to convert MXF to AVI. You can convert MXF to AVI on your computer with the software or change MXF to AVI online. But the online way will put your XMF video file risk if you have some important information within it. So here we recommend you the first method to convert MXF to AVI at ease.