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Canon MXF rewrap?
I’m doing a project for someone who shot with a Canon XF100.
Long story short… some of the footage had the INDEX.MIF file, and those I could see in Final Cut Pro X. Most of the footage however was invisible to FCPX because my friend didn’t save the INDEX.MIF file.
I did a fairly extensive search, and I bought Pavtube MXF and I’m converting the footage to Prores.
I’d much rather keep the footage in the original codec however, since the prores files are so much bigger.
Anyone know how to do this for future reference?
Yes, I’m going to encourage my friend to keep the index.mif files in the future, but it seems there ought to be a way to simply rewrap it.
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Don’t live your life in a secondary storyline.Mark Morache
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Evening Magazine,Seattle, WA
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Have you tried ClipWrap?
https://www.divergentmedia.com/clipwrap -
Yea Marco, I have. I love it.
It works great for my Sony HVR-Z7U, but unfortunately, it doesn’t do squat for the Canon files.
Clipwrap works for mts files, not mxf.
Strangely enough, I tried Sony’s XDcam Transfer, which I use to bring in mxf files from our Sony server, and the video came in fine, but the audio was messed up. It lost sync, it ended before the video and there were numerous noise hits in it.
I’m still looking for something like Clipwrap that works for mxf files.
–> Mark
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Don’t live your life in a secondary storyline.Mark Morache
FCPX/FCP7/Xpri/Avid
Evening Magazine,Seattle, WA
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oh. sorry, I thought I remembered remuxing mxf to mov with clipwrap…
ok then, have you tried XfcpX2? https://pika.dk/?p=472
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Thanks.
I checked it out. It re-wrapped the footage. Didn’t seem to translate time code, and there was some strange green and yellow noise on the clips.
Getting closer!
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Don’t live your life in a secondary storyline.Mark Morache
FCPX/FCP7/Xpri/Avid
Evening Magazine,Seattle, WA
https://fcpx.wordpress.com -
Thanks, however I don’t believe the mxf converter can keep the mxf files in their native format.
I purchased the pav*tube converter which I believe does the same thing. I had to convert every file to prores, which took up a lot of space on my hard drive over the canon xf mpg2 50 format, the native format the camera shot.
As I mentioned above, the Canon plug in worked well, as long as the index file was retained from the card. The project is done now, but I’m still wondering if there’s a way to bring the footage in natively without transcoding.
I can do this with hdv footage fabulously with clip*wrap, but that product does not work with Canon XF files.
If anyone knows a tool that can do this, I’d love to know about it… thx.
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Don’t live your life in a secondary storyline.Mark Morache
FCPX/FCP7/Xpri/Avid
Evening Magazine,Seattle, WA
https://fcpx.wordpress.com
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