Can’t load sony F800 xdcam .MXF files into FCPX

[Jeremy Garchow]

Do you still have the original card structure?

[Michael Williams]

No. It wasn’t cards btw, but discs, 23rd Sony pro discs.

[Jeremy Garchow]

So all you have are MXF files?

You might need an MXF importer from mxf4mac or calibrated if that’s the case.

[Michael Williams]

Thanks! I checked out both products you mentioned. calibrated seems to have extra steps in creating XML files that mx4mac doesn’t mention. dDo you (anyone here!) have experience with the two products? Any preference/review?

Thanks again,
Michael

[Jeremy Garchow]

I have used (for years) MXF4mac and love it.

It’s not cheap, but it’s worth it.

Before you purchase, can you show me a screengrab of your file directory?

[Michael Williams]

[Jeremy Garchow]

I’m not sure an MXF importer is going to help here since the files are op-atom.

I’d download the Sony Content Browser software to rewrap these files to .mov

Jeremy

[Michael Williams]

Jeremy,

Thanks for helping on this! I bought the Sony “Standard Pack” Content Browser for Mac from here:

https://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/download/contentbrowser

Jumping right in without reading the docs, I installed it and tried to Import the files (e.g. C0001A01.MXF above) , it burps:

Unsupported Clip.

Opened the Installation Guide, see that it says to open Applications->Utilities->System Information and look under Software->Extensions
to see about drivers, which should be:

If a driver is already installed on your computer, confirm that the following version of the driver or later is installed. You can find the latest versions of drivers on the XDCAM website.
• FAM Driver: Ver. 2.3.3 or later (supposed to show up in Sys Info under [prodisc_fs] but there is none there)
• XDCAM Drive Software: Ver. 5.0.0 or later (Shows up in Sys Info under SonyXDCAMDriver, mine is 3.4.1)
• SxS Device Driver: Ver. 1.1.2.10220 or later
• SxS UDF Driver: Ver. 2.1.1 or later

This page is generally helpful (but shows up under a search on the Sony site as having no name) https://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/download/software_for_sony_equipment#xdcam

So I installed
FAM Driver (which requires a reboot) from here: https://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/download/famdriver#download
The SxS UDF Driver (reboot) from here: https://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/download/sxsudfdriver
I’m still researching how to remove the XDCAMDriver (not sure how it got there) because the installation doc says to remove the old one before installing the new one.

Update soon

[Michael Williams]

Jeremy,

Any idea how to uninstall the existing XDCAM driver? Apple Support doesn’t know where it installs…

Thanks!

[Jeremy Garchow]

I think you just need to install the software, and it should rewrite the older one.

If you look in system info, it shows you where the extension is installed, but I wouldn’t root around in the extensions folder.

I would try installing all the new software, and see if it works.

Jeremy