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View mxf without fcp
Hello all,
I have spent the better half of the evening searching for the answer, I am sorry if it is an easy one.
I am getting footage placed on a ext hard drive for me from several people, and then pass it on to an editor so I can get a show reel cut. The hard drive is getting full so I am trying to cull some of the footage down. How do I view the mxf files without having final cut pro?
I am working on a mac.
Thanks,
Graeme
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If you’re on an Intel Mac and have BootCamp installed, you can install the free Panasonic P2 Viewer and use that. Otherwise, yeah, P2 Log is the way to go.
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Raylight for Mac will do it. I love this program. After it’s installed it extracts to the shared folder in the users folder a small mov file for each mxf file on your external drive. Then you can use Quicktime viewer to watch them. It will handle DVC Pro 50 up to HD. I can’t tell you how much time this has already saved me. If you use it with FCP (I know you don’t do that in the field) you can open the mxf files direcly in FCP without importing them.
I also have HD Log from Imagine Products similar to P2 Log that Shane mentioned. It works very well and has other capabilities than just viewing, but is much more expensive than Raylight which I think is $89.
John
Dual 2.5 G5 4 gigs RAM OS 10.4.8 QT7.1.3
Dual Cinema 23 Radeon 9800
FCP Studio 5 (FCP5.1.2, DVDSP4.1.1, Comp2.3, STP1.1, Motion 2.1.2)
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[John Fishback] “raylight for Mac will do it. I love this program. After it’s installed it extracts to the shared folder in the users folder a small mov file for each mxf file on your external drive. Then you can use Quicktime viewer to watch them.”
I have downloaded a trial version.
I can’t see it working, it doens’t seem to allow me to direct it to a particular folder to extract(scan) the mxf files. I have checked the folder it has set up in the “users” folder, and it only has a text file.
Am I missing something, to my knowledge the trial version limits the playback to 10 second grabs only.
Thank you,
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The application help has instructions on how to use it
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You have to show Raylight where the mxf files are located. It won’t scan all your drives. Drag the folder containing the Contents and Lastclip files to the rectangular box at the bottom of the Raylight dialogue. Then Raylight will see the files and do it’s translation.
If you still have problems, go to the Raylight site’s support page and submit a question. They are very responsive.
John
Dual 2.5 G5 4 gigs RAM OS 10.4.8 QT7.1.3
Dual Cinema 23 Radeon 9800
FCP Studio 5 (FCP5.1.2, DVDSP4.1.1, Comp2.3, STP1.1, Motion 2.1.2)
Huge U-320R 1TB Raid 3 firmware ENG15.BIN
ATTO UL4D driver 3.50
AJA IO driver 2.1 firmware v23-28
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Can someone explain why it is that QuickTime can read and write a reference movie that points at MXF media, but cannot read nor write MXF media directly?
Thanks
dbk
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If you’re talking about the link files created by Raylight for Mac, https://dvfilm.com/raylight/mac the links are not created by Quicktime, although they are 100% compatible with the quicktime player and FCP. MXF files are not compatible.
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What I was thinking is that the “link file” to which you refer is in fact a QuickTime reference movie that points at the MXF media. Is that not the case? Sure looks like it from what I see at the raylight website.
I know that I can read and write QuickTime reference movies that only point at MXF media files, and that QuickTime can play those movies. So what I don’t understand is how QuickTime can read and write reference movies that point at MXF media but will not play MXF media without the QuickTime wrapper.
It’s always seemed to me that MXF was built mainly to de-proprietize a lot of existing QuickTime functionality.
dbk
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thanks a lot!
I’ve rescued an old footage with hd log and p2 log which is great to play mfx files, it gives all information about the footage so you can repair any p2 volume with hd log even if you do have only audio and video folders, it repaired so I have all xml files and all other folders except bmp pictures files in ICON folders which is not important I think,
you are great in helping,
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