Can FCP Upres DVCPro50 MXF to HD?

[Jeremy Garchow]

Sure, but your results may vary.

[Shane Ross]

FCP cannot access MXF files for uprez natively. They will need to be imported into FCP first via FILE>IMPORT>PANASONIC P2. Then you can downconvert using the media manager and retain all the timecode.

Shane

Alokut Productions
http://www.lfhd.net

[Chris Baldwin]

I want to upres Dvcpro50 mxf shot on the SPX800 and edited with 720p footage from a HVX200 and the output a HD Dvd on a 9 gig disk. many shooters tell me they shot with the SDX900 and upres it to cut with a Varicam. If a SPX800 has a HD lens on it shouldn’t it stand up pretty well to the HDX200?

Chris Baldwin
Shoulder High Productions
Media of the World; For the World!
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[David Roth weiss]

[Shane Ross] “Then you can downconvert using the media manager and retain all the timecode.”

Shane,

I think that would be an upconvert.

[Chris Baldwin]

Is the import process a generation loss or signal degradation or just an unwrapping of the mxf to a quicktime file? but regardless as to the original question will the upres occur in final cut or compressor? this question refers to wanting to edit HD from a HVX200 and SD from a SPX800 and output a 720p DVD.

Chris Baldwin
Shoulder High Productions
Media of the World; For the World!
https://www.shoulderhigh.com
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[Matt Larson]

There is no generation loss, you are just doing a file transfer, and technically wrapping the MXF in a Quicktime wrapper.

Your best bet is to run all of your DVCPRO 50 clips through Compressor using an Advanced Outputs preset (or something like that). There is a preset for DVCProHD which is what you are going to edit with, right? Just apply that preset and it’ll uprez-away.

And if you do plan on doing this again, make a compressor droplet