• Adobe Premiere Pro

  Canon MXF Workflow with Premiere CC, PluralEyes 3 & Speedgrade

  Posted by Chris Mathews on June 24, 2013 at 9:24 pm

  Hi guys! I need some advice/tips.

  I shot a live stage performance with a Canon XF105 and 2-5DMKII’s. The XF105 shoots MXF files which are causing me problems.

  1. Imports just fine into Premiere CC but will not import natively into PluralEyes 3. I tried Red Giant’s workaround, but it still won’t import. Maybe I am doing something wrong.

  2. I can use the new Premiere CC Multi-Cam Sync to Audio, but I can bring the MXF files over to Speedgrade for grading.

  The more I work with the MXF files the more I don’t want to work with them. Should I just transcode to ProRes or something else to make this 2 hour performance easier to edit? If so, should I just use Adobe Media Encoder?

  Any and all advice with working with this format using the above software would be greatly appreciated.

  Thanks!

  Chris Mathews replied 13 years ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Angelo Lorenzo

  July 11, 2013 at 11:14 pm

  Prores all the way. PluralEyes will read it and Speedgrade will import it.

  The ENG style camera formats like XF, XDCAM, AVCHD, and so on really benefit from a proper intermediate codec for more advanced workflows.

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  Chris Mathews

  July 12, 2013 at 12:40 pm

  Thanks for clarifying!

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