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Avid HDV to Premiere Pro HDV transcoding
Let’s say I wake up tomorrow morning and want to take my enormous 1 TB collection of Avid MXF media (HDV 1080i) and want to use it with Premiere Pro. Is there an easy way to transcode this?
The data inside the MXF is essentially the HDV stream off tape. I assume Adobe uses this same approach. If the data is the same, this should be easy… anyone?
– Paul
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Paul,
I don’t have any MXF files from Avid to try this with, but MXF is on the list of acceptable formats. The codec could be a different matter.
If you want to provide me with a few seconds (or more) of video, I would be happy to try it out for you. Send me an email via my web site if you wish.
Or, if you know where some is available online, let me know. I couldn’t find any.
I do know that the MXF files I downloaded from https://www.opencubetech.com/page47/ annoyed my copy of Premiere Pro CS6. I couldn’t import them. And one of them hung my system so I had to kill Premiere Pro because it would not respond.
Steven
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I tried to import a MXF into Premiere 5.5 and it gave a “this file has an unsupported compression type” error. Audio MXF files work fine.
I suspect that the AVID HDV codec is not supported. Question to the group is… does Premiere 6 support it?
If not, is there a “transcoder/re-wrapper” that can make them compatible?
– Paul
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