How to upload Canon MXF to YouTube?

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. MXF's use in professional camcorder includes Sony's XDCAM MXF, Panasonic's P2 MXF and Canon's XF codec camcorders. For users who want to upload the MXF footage from Sony/Canon/Panasonic camcorder to Youtube, they will first have to transfer the MXF media from its storage device to your computer hard disk, then convert the MXF format to Youtube supported formats. Transfer Sony XDCAM, Panasonic P2 and Canon XF codec MXF media to your computer hard disk Sony XDCAM MXF: The Sony XDCAM records MXF file-based media to an optical disc format. You can use the Sony XDCAM Transfer software to import plug-in to ingest XDCAM media from MXF-wrapped media to QuickTime-wrapped media on your scratch disk. Panasonic DVCPRO P2 MXF: You can use Panasonic P2 camcorder as a P2 card reader to mount P2 cards on the desktop. Canon XF codec: You can import the clips contained in Canon XF codec camcorder CF card to the computer with Canon XF utility. After you have successfully import the MXF media from your camcorder to your computer hard disk, you can then utilize a conversion software HD Video Converter to import and convert MXF to YouTube supported AVI, WMV, MPEG-4, MOV, MPEG-PS, FLV, 3GPP, WebM formats to upload/share with people around the world. Sony MXF to YouTube Converter interface Click "Format" to choose "Common Video > MPEG-4 Movie (*mp4)" as output format.