And so it begins – MXF for FCPX (and other NLE MXF “assistants”)

[Craig Russillroy]

That is fantastic news …

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[Bernard Newnham]

I’m endlessly amazed at the loyalty shown to this product – FCPX that is.

Do all of you do the same to everything other product? Mt wife was a big Nissan buyer, till they brought out a line of vehicles that didn’t suit her. But she didn’t buy a Qashqai and hammer it till it got to the shape she wanted, she bought a Toyota instead. Isn’t that what normal people do?

Personally,I’m happily working away with Edius now, on a PC which runs faster and has better graphics – and an SSD – than your ancient MacPros.

I loved FCP for ten years, but now we’re divorced and I’m moving on.

B

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Bernard Newnham] “I loved FCP for ten years, but now we’re divorced and I’m moving on.”

Good for you. I am happy am I am glad you find the tool that is right for you.

I am excited about this as I have used MXF4mac in FCP7 for a long time now. This is the next evolution and I wasn’t even sure if this was going to be possible in FCPX.

Having direct access to MXF media is a big deal in broadcast and other workflows.

If you like/use FCPX, and you shoot MXF, this might be a good thing.

The pro version looks like it will tidy up Avid’s op-atom MXF explosions as well.

Jeremy

[Andy Neil]

[Bernard Newnham] “I’m endlessly amazed at the loyalty shown to this product – FCPX that is.”

Some of us don’t feel like jilted lovers with regards to FCPX. We see it as a tool that either works for a particular project or it doesn’t. I’ve personally never put all my eggs in one basket as an editor, so it does me no harm to work with FCPX on the projects it works well with. And believe me when I tell you, for those projects, it works better than the other NLEs out there.

Most everyone recognizes it as an unfinished product. But I’m not a facilities manager required to make NLE purchases for an entire company. I’m just an editor who works with many different NLEs, and whose Mac Pro didn’t stop working when X was released last year.

This has nothing (or little) to do with loyalty for me. If I can’t use it, or it doesn’t make financial sense, I won’t buy it. Obviously you made a similar decision for your work. Why begrudge us ours?

Andy

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[Steve Connor]

[Bernard Newnham] “Do all of you do the same to everything other product? Mt wife was a big Nissan buyer, till they brought out a line of vehicles that didn’t suit her. But she didn’t buy a Qashqai and hammer it till it got to the shape she wanted, she bought a Toyota instead. Isn’t that what normal people do?
“

So you’re saying that those of us who choose FCPX and are prepared to put up with some third party solutions aren’t “normal”

Steve Connor
“FCPX Professional”
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[Craig Shields]

LOL I wish there was a way to see how many times you have peaked in this forum. I wonder how many happily divorced men go back and peak in their ex’s window?

[Daniel Frome]

There’s no doubt that Edius is the fastest editing software out there. Not many people truly realize this.

[Walter Soyka]

[Jeremy Garchow] “One of my favorite and useful workflow assistants to FCP7 is going to be available for FCPX. VirtualMXF from the company that developed MXF4mac (Hamburg Pro Media). Looks like there’s going to be a regular and “Pro” version. Regular is available now, Pro coming soon.”

That is really, really cool.

It’s interesting to note it doesn’t plug directly into FCPX. The application seems to be reading the MXFs and presenting them to the system on virtual volumes as QuickTime files for any application to read. It looks like quite a bit of behind-the-scenes wizardry to make it all work.

Nice find, Jeremy, and thanks for sharing.

Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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[Walter Soyka]

[Walter Soyka] “It’s interesting to note it doesn’t plug directly into FCPX. The application seems to be reading the MXFs and presenting them to the system on virtual volumes as QuickTime files for any application to read. It looks like quite a bit of behind-the-scenes wizardry to make it all work.”

On this note — I do wonder how this approach will work with FCPX’s everything-online-all-the-time approach. You could end up having to mount an awful lot of virtual disks.

Will transcoding to optimized media still be ideal?

Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
RenderBreak Blog – What I’m thinking when my workstation’s thinking
Creative Cow Forum Host: Live & Stage Events

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Walter Soyka] “On this note — I do wonder how this approach will work with FCPX’s everything-online-all-the-time approach. You could end up having to mount an awful lot of virtual disks. “

I don’t know how it works quite yet, but my guess is that it puts a link in the event to the original media.

The MXFImport component works like this in QT and fcp7 now. Using the QT framework, the component simply presented the information to the OS. It’s very slick.

A limitation with that system was once you brought it in to FCP7, you have to use media manager to transcode to QT as the way the MXF files were presented weren’t the same as log and transfer.

My guess, and I hope to find out shortly, is that with FCPX’s transcode feature, you’d be able to make high or low res media at anytime. This is a huge benefit if my guess is correct. It means you have instant access to the media as needed, and you can make .movs if you need to move the edit to another system/machine that doesn’t have the MXF software. I am also intrigued about how it says you can map metadata between 7 and X via XML.

More speculation, I’m sure there’s a reason the pro version isn’t available yet and might point to more FCPX XML updates in the near future, but what do I know…

Jeremy