• Adobe Premiere Pro

  MXF Workflow

  Posted by Ahmed Aborady on March 24, 2016 at 10:40 am

  Hi
  I have a project that has hundreds of files 4k MXF shot with sony FS7
  I know premier pro is handling mxfs pretty well but with projects like this
  It keeps generating peak files
  So i wanna transcode all the footages to pro res for smoother editing process
  But wt i concern about is the color rendition i wanna be able to properly color grade the pro res files after locking the edit .. So i wanna know how to see whether its 422 or 444 since its not there in the meta data

  I hope i could make myself clear enough

  Ahmed Aborady replied 10 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 4 Replies
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  Mark Thompson

  March 24, 2016 at 11:55 am

  Hi Ahmed,
  An easy way to read that metadata is to download Sony Catalyst Browse (think it is free but you have to register).

  Another way is to look at the “sidecar” xml file. E.g. I have a clip 726_0001.mxf and the sidecar is 726_0001M01.xml. If you open that in a text editor and search for “videoCodec”, right next to it is a coded, but readable, name of the codec.
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  Ahmed Aborady

  March 24, 2016 at 12:01 pm

  Thanks Mark
  i just checked the xml file all the metadata are there
  but i wanna know specifically the color rendition i dunno if the camera record this value in the meta data or not
  i wanna know whether its 4.2.2 or 4.4.4
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  Mark Thompson

  March 24, 2016 at 12:16 pm

  Ahmed,
  in my codec name is the string 422 , which means 4.2.2 color. If it was to be 4.4.4 the same part of the codec would be 444.

  I don’t think that camera will produce 4.4.4, even with the XDCA ProRes option.

  IF you have the XDCA and option to record Raw then that might be a possibility but I’ve not tried Raw yet.
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  Ahmed Aborady

  March 24, 2016 at 12:18 pm

  Thanks mark i got it

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