• Avid Media Composer

  XDCAM EX – Not importing correctly or linking

  Posted by Al Lilly on October 18, 2016 at 4:21 pm

  Hi,

  I’m having trouble working with XDCAM EX footage. I’m using MC 8.6.

  I’ve downloaded the Sony plugin and verified using the console AMA_lisplugin:

  

  But in the source browser, it says it can’t be linked:

  

  Right clicking doesn’t give me anything either:

  

  When I try to link the footage anyway I get this:

  

  These are my link settings:

  

  Additionally I’m having trouble with XDCAM EX files that I ingest into MC, it shows up as green:

  

  This is my import settings:

  

  Thanks for any help and insight!

  Al Lilly replied 9 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  John Pale

  October 18, 2016 at 5:25 pm

  XDCAM files are not normally Quicktime .mov files. They usually are MXF files on the XDCAM disks. Did this files come from an FCP system (which converts them to .mov)?
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  Al Lilly

  October 18, 2016 at 5:32 pm

  It’s based on the camera settings which is recording to an SD card, not the typical SxS card. This is for a high school and the settings have worked for previous versions of AVID (MC 7 I believe). I’ll try recording with their camera to another format to see if a simple resolve would simply be to to avoid the XDCAM EX codec in a QT container.

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