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  Sony F5 footage!?

  Posted by Dave Pearson on August 14, 2013 at 5:56 pm

  Hey everyone,

  I’m in a bit of a pickle here and I was hoping someone may be able to help. I have been given footage that was shot on a sony F5 8-bit MPEG-2 HD422, 50Mbps and comes in a .MXF wrapper. I’ve made a cut in Premiere CC and then was beginning to grade in After effects when I noticed that when increasing the saturation the picture began polarising and I released that there was missing information in the picture. My first thought was perhaps the files need transcoding – perhaps they aren’t the full res files, so I tried transcoding one to DNX 145 – just to see if there was any difference – there wasn’t.

  So my question is; is the way the footage is? Or are they merely compressed for file size economy and is there a way of uncompressing them?

  Any help would be amazing. I’ve been out of the game in regards to handling the raw files – haven’t got the foggiest…

  Many thanks!

  Dave Pearson
  Editor

  Dave Pearson replied 13 years ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Todd Kopriva

  August 14, 2013 at 9:50 pm

  Sony F5 is not a supported import format for the current version of After Effects.

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  Dave Pearson

  August 15, 2013 at 5:35 am

  Ahhh I see. It opened up and played totally fine when I imported it but nevertheless, thankyou for the heads up! Would you recommend grading in Premeire CC? Or Should I purchase Speedgrade to have more luck?any thanks again…

  Dave Pearson
  Editor

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