Best video conversion settings for Premiere Pro CS6

[Omar Ayoub]

Thank you Ann. What I’m going to do is this: Since I retained the CF cards’ folder structure, I will re-copy them onto the CF card and then import them via the Canon XF Utility and re-export as single files, like you said. I hope it works.

[Ann Bens]

No need to copy back to card (dont even think that is a good idea or even possible).
Set CONTENTS in a folder and call it e.g. card 1.
Start XF utility / File / Set Virtual Media.
Select card 1.
This will open the files in XF utility.
Select all files / Edit / Export to MXF.
That should do the trick.

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[Omar Ayoub]

You are a genius. Thanks a million, Ann 🙂

[Ann Bens]

You are most welcome.

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[Omar Ayoub]

Update: After I got to my personal laptop this morning and attempted to import the .MXF files (which I successfully exported via the Canon XF utility), it still gave the much-dreaded “The importer gave a generic error.” message. I then looked into converting the .MXFs to MPEG2 in order to preserve the quality as much as possible (As Ryan previously pointed out) and found this program. If anyone has experience with a better converter, I’m all ears.