• Avid Media Composer

  Convert MXF to Quicktime

  Posted by Uli Kunkel on December 3, 2009 at 12:04 am

  I am digitizing HDCAM footage into Media Composer, but I’ll be needing to eventually take it to a Final Cut system for editing. What is the best way of doing the necessary conversion? I don’t have automatic duck.

  Terence Curren replied 16 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Terence Curren

  December 3, 2009 at 1:34 am

  Export as a Quicktime movie from the Avid.

  Why aren’t you capturing into FCP to save the trouble?

  Terence Curren
  http://www.alphadogs.tv
  http://www.digitalservicestation.com
  Burbank,Ca
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  Uli Kunkel

  December 3, 2009 at 4:56 pm

  I can export as quicktime from Avid, but I was concerned that if I did that I would lose the original tape timecode in the exported QT file. Do you know if I will?

  I’m not digitizing directly into FCP because I don’t have a deck connected to an FCP system at my disposal. If I digitize into Avid, I don’t have to rent a deck for 1 tape.

  Thank you for your help.

  Uli
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  Terence Curren

  December 3, 2009 at 5:09 pm

  Got it.

  Yes, MC does export timecode, but only in the newer versions. I don’t remember if this came in 3.5 or 4.0.

  For future reference (and a guilty plug) you might check out https://www.digitalservicestation.com/ which is set up to handle exactly your type of situation.

  Terence Curren
  http://www.alphadogs.tv
  http://www.digitalservicestation.com
  Burbank,Ca

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