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  Canon XF105 MXF files to AVID Metafuze

  Posted by Mikko Leino on May 4, 2011 at 11:09 am

  Hello,

  I was wondering that is it possible to bring Canon XF105 MXF files to AVID Metafuze program? I cant really find out strictly specs for supported filetypes…Red…DPX…TIFF so on but how about Canon MFX??

  Thanks

  Mikko

  Mikko Leino replied 15 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Michael Kammes

  May 4, 2011 at 9:49 pm

  The Canon XF105 generates a MPEG2 in an MXF wrapper. Media Composer 5.5 has an MXF AMA Plugin which apparently understands this codec.
  
  Camera codec spec:

  Compression: MPEG-2 Long GOP
  Color Space: 4:2:2 (at 50Mbps recording)
  File Format: MXF
  Recording Modes:
  50Mbps (CBR) 4:2:2, 1920×1080, (60i/30p/24p), 1280×720 (60p/30p/24p)
  35Mbps (VBR) 4:2:0, 1920×1080 (60i/30p/24p), 1280×720 (60p/30p/24p)
  25Mbps (CBR) 4:2:0, 1440×1080 (60i/30p/24p)

  PDF link (page 3) to Avid AMA MXF Guide: https://avid.custkb.com/avid/app/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=367189&Hilite=plug-in

  Canon XF: MPEG-2 HD 50 and 35 mbits: 1920×1080, 1280 x 720
  Canon XF: MPEG-2 HD 25 mbits: 1440 x 1080

  Thus, it appears Avid supports the codec natively with the MXF AMA plugin…no need for metafuze.

  …then again, if you DON’T have 5.5, and you have an older version of Metafuze, I don’t know. Luckily, Metafuze is free! That being said, no where in any literature I’ve found does it list MXF media as being acceptable for INPUT into Metafuze. Listed for input: DPX, R3D, TIF, JPG, AVI and QuickTime files.

  One trick COULD be to use a 3rd party plugin (like Calibrated Software) which allows QT to see MXF files. Since QT sees MXF, and Metafuze sees QT…that may work…but that seems kluge at best.

  Good Luck!

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  Mikko Leino

  May 10, 2011 at 12:31 pm

  Thanks for your response Michael. Well the problem has not been solved and I find it quite odd.

  I do have AMA plugin for Canon xf and in media composer everything is working well. But somehow Metafuze does not understand canon’s MXF format. Metafuze should be a converter tool as well so its hard to convert if the converter tool doesn’t support different formats.

  So I can import MXF files to composer and change them to mov files and then Metafuze can handle the files. But this shouldn’t be the order. Now I am doing things backwards. Maybe I should use some 3rd party plugin as Michael mentioned but anyway the main thing is that, is it really so that Metafuze doesn’t support MXF files from Canon.

  Mikko Leino

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