broadcast lxf files

[Bouke Vahl]

Just google on:
Harris LX

And pick the top hit.
you end up on the Cow again, and you will read a post from someone who knows, basicly tells you to go back to your client and require that they come up with something reasonable…

Bouke

https://www.videotoolshed.com/
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[Johannes Johannesen]

hi bouke
thanks for getting back. i just tried googling but nothing on cow came up, in fact nothing that had to do with broadcasting… do you have a direct link please?
thanks,J

[Bouke Vahl]

https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/8/1006431

mind the ‘proprietary ‘ part…

Try exporting to XDcam, you end up with a MXF file, and if you have set everything right, it should be very close to what you need.
And since it’s Sony, probably your client will be able to work with it.
So i would suggest that you suggest that to your client…

Bouke

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[Rafael Amador]

[Bouke Vahl] “Try exporting to XDcam, you end up with a MXF file, and if you have set everything right, it should be very close to what you need.”
Right.
Export XDCAM 422 50Mbps and re-wrap as with FC “Export to XDCAM” option.
As Bouke says, is basicalli what they are asking you.
rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com

[Craig Russillroy]

We deliver a lot of commercials to broadcasters and LXF is a nightmare look at telestream episode 5 ( 6 is in pre release) this is the cheapest solution – for 1000 bucks it does all you broadcast files and a million zillion billion other files – you can get a free trial which only does 30 seconds transcode – do you do lots of sends to the broadcaster ?

[Johannes Johannesen]

thanks for your replies! great help. i m still a little confused though. So you are are saying I should export to xdcam file format from FCP and see what they say?
next step would be purchasing episode or mx4mac? i read somewhere that neither were making outcomes that were any good.

for now we are only sending 4 hour footage over every month, with it likely to increase in the next few months.

thanks for your help!!!!

[Bouke Vahl]

Rafael and me are suggesting indeed just that, send them something they did NOT ask for.

About Episode, i’ve got version 5.3.2 running, and i can’t find LXF output.

Now from the link, it’s a ‘ proprietary’ format, and i doubt they give it away.
But, since it’s 50 megabit Mpeg2, Sony MXF comes very close, to the format you described,
and Harris should be the company to support that…
(not LXF vs MXF, one letter difference, one pos in the alphabet…)

If you don’t want to nag your client, contact Harris and ask them about your options.

Bouke

https://www.videotoolshed.com/
smart tools for video pros

[Craig Russillroy]

Hi Guys,

I found on Rhozet Carbon Coder it is LXF and in Episode it is MXF – interesting – how about doing a 30 sec test to the TV STATION and seeing if they can accept tthe MXF …

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