Disadvantages of XAVC

[Jeremy Garchow]

Disadvantages to what? Acquisition?

XAVC is a more modern AVC-Intra. It has a ton of options in an acquisition codec (4k, RGB,, YCrCb, 444, 422, 420, 10bit, 8bit, I-frame, long GOP, etc).

If you shoot the MXF variant, you can buy a plugin and skip the rewrap process in fcpx. It saves me money down the road in archiving.

Jeremy

[Steve Connor]

Which plugin is that Jeremy?

Steve Connor

There’s nothing we can’t argue about on the FCPX COW Forum

[Jeremy Garchow]

There’s Calibrated Software, but I am partial to MXF4mac.

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

https://hamburgpromedia.com/products/mxf4mac/FCP-X-support/Final-Cut-Pro-X-support.php

We have an F55 now, by the way. 😉

[Francois Jean]

There is a less expensive solution from SONY that interacts directly with FCP X, the “Content Browser 2.2” . It will import MXF in an FCP X Event and Export any FCP X project properly formated back to an MXF file …
For XAVC , XDCAM, XDCAM 422, XDCAM EX in/out MXF files

all the best

zap

Edited : Theoricaly it deals with almost all Sony MXF but it does not do XAVC MXF … sorry

[Jeremy Garchow]

Hi Zap.

Last I checked, it doesn’t seem to work for XAVC, unless of course I don’t have v2.2. I just downloaded a round of updates a few weeks ago, so I think I have the latest.

I do like Content Browser though. If what you say is true and you can in fact send XAVC MXF files to fcpx without rewrapping to .mov, that will be awesome.

Jeremy

[Francois Jean]

Edited my post …

I double checked and 2.2 does not yet do XAVC , we mostly work with XDCAM HD 422 and SR Tape for now and i had not tested XAVC. You have to go to page 229 to realize the fact.

sorry for the hopes

all the best

ZAP

[Rafael Amador]

The main disadvantage may be that is property of SONY.
rafael

[Kai Von garnier]

we do support the native import of these files up to 4K:

https://www.hamburgpromedia.com/products/mxf4mac/mxf-for-mac.php

you can view these files with our free Player without rewrapping or transcoding
https://www.hamburgpromedia.com/products/mxf4mac/applications/mxf-for-mac-player.php

if you have any question, please send us a mail

info@hamburgpromedia.com

Kai