Converting MXF files to Quicktimes for FCP7

[Jacob Dammas]

Dear Shane,

I obviously watched your great tutorial too late because I have erased the INDEX and JOURNAL files in some of my folders with MFX video materials from a camcorder Canon XF100. I have tried naively to copy an INDEX and JOURNAL file from another volume into the folder that is missing the INDEX and JOURNAL files, but Final Cut Pro 7 won’t import the MFX files in Log and Transfer. It just doesn’t react at all to my command. No error code appears. Is there any other way I could import my MFX files, or any way I could re-create the INDEX and JOURNAL files, or fool FCP to think the folder has the correct structure and content ?

Thanking you in advance and best regards,
Jacob Dammas

[Shane Ross]

Without the full card structure, you then need to rely on MXF decoders, like MXF IMPORT:

https://www.calibratedsoftware.com/MXFImport_Mac.asp

Shane
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[Jacob Dammas]

Thanks !

[Ashley Shambeck]

Hi!! My first time working with mfx files. I had to use a converter to .mov files. Weird thing happend though. First file set of mfx files converted great. The rest have a jagged edge around image…..any ideas? Thanks for help!

Ashley

[Eason Joy]

I was recommended by someone to use UFU Soft MXF Converter for Mac,which can helps convert MXF to QuickTime for FCP 7 with good quality.

[Karen O’donnell]

I am trying to backup from my card from canon xf100 and then want to get the mxf files into fcp7.
I was reading a post by Shane Ross, who has given very specific instructions for how to do this which is great. But I am not seeing the LastClip.txt file that he referred to ….I am looking at the card itself and it only has a contents folder…..I am not an editor but am trying to learn so that i can at least prepare the material for him.

I don’t want to reuse this card until I know I’m backing up correctly.

Any comments?

thanks so much….karen

[Shane Ross]

Only P2 cameras have the LASTCLIP.TXT file. Other formats have other files.

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[Karen O’donnell]

ok great….thanks….first issue resolved….now i will try to convert to be able to work in fcp7….i will watch your tutorial….thanks so much again….for newbies like me, it is very easy to become overwhelmed with the tech aspects….k

[Helen Carry]

You can try one mxf converter,here is one url can help you https://www.freemxfconverter.com

[Ahilan Ratnamohan]

Hi Shane,

I thought I’d tag onto this post to ask you this.

I was given some footage from a cameraman recently. He had converted it from MXF to MOV (using Avid) so that I could use this in FCP7, but I am getting codec errors. He also gave me the original files, but these do not come, as you’ve described, with the ‘CONTENT’ folder and the LASTCLIP.txt. He’s confirmed that he never changed this btw.

They came in an ‘XDROOT’ folder, therein are a bunch of folders, CLIP, EDIT, GENERAL, SUB… and some XML files.

Do you have any idea about how I can tackle this issue?

Thanks in advance for any advice.

Ahil