• Adobe Premiere Pro

  CS6, Ikegami MXF Supported In PPro & NOT Prelude or AME With Plug-In Installed?

  Posted by Lindsay Simpson on August 15, 2012 at 3:03 pm

  Hi all,

  The curse of the Ikegami MXF strikes again! Just installed CS6 including all of the latest Adobe updates which are so far so good. I love a lot of the new features though I haven’t had much of a chance to get to any nitty gritty editing at this point. I am especially excited about Prelude!

  I also purchased the corresponding latest version of this plug-in:

  https://www.mainconcept.com/products/apps-plug-ins/plug-ins-for-adobe/totalcode-cs-5-6.htmlhttps://

  …which allows PPro to package the Ikegami MXF files for import through the Media Browser. I assumed the plug-in would translate to Prelude and AME as well to ingest/import Ikegami MXF properly. Initially I tested it only in PPro, which was successful, and went back today to perform various transcode tests in the hopes of having to only purchase one pricey plug-in license rather having to purchase three in total. Unfortunately Prelude does not seem to recognize the plug-in…Here’s a screen shot of the media browser in PPro vs. Prelude.

  prelude_vs_ppro_ikegami.png

  I also attempted to import straight into AME to attempt an Ikegami transcode. I was pretty positive that method would not work, and I was correct. AME crashed when a single Ikegami MXF video file was imported.

  Please tell me this is an issue/bug? that can be fixed! Or my enthusiasm that Prelude will be the solution to CatDV/Ikegami incompatibility will be deflated…I really don’t want to be forced into a situation involving the tedious workflow of exporting/transcoding individual Ikegami clips out of PPro to be used on our other two editors and/or having to battle with a tightening state bureaucracy for money to purchase two more expensive Total Code licenses…

  Thanks for any and all input,

  Lindsay

  Peter Neumann replied 13 years, 8 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Peter Neumann

  August 16, 2012 at 11:35 am

  Hi Lindsay

  I’m working for Rovi.
  Importing and transcoding Ikegami footage into Adobe Media Endoder with the TotalCode Plugin installed works.
  If you have Ikegami footage that fails to import, please contact the Rovi support and provide a sample of that footage. What format did you try to convert to when AME crashed?

  Unfortunately Prelude does not make use of third party import plugins.
  So transcoding Ikegami footage in AME into a container format Prelude can deal with, e.g. probably MXF Op1a, is the way to go.
  If you use the TotalCode Export in AME you can convert to Op1a very fast by smart rendering. You just have to create the export settings manually once. On the configuration page chose the custom settings tab. Select MPEG video codec, hit the Analyze button and open one of your Ikegami video mxf files to read the video parameters. Then chose PCM AES3 382 4 channel audio and for multiplexing MXF generic Op1a. Save the settings as TotalCode settings file or as as Adobe profile or both. When you transcode with those new settings now, the TotalCode Exporter will transfer the video stream w.o recompression very quickly. Speed mainly depends on the IO performance, not on CPU. Using a different physical hard disks for source and target is recommended.

  Regards,
  Peter

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