Does FCP X still need to wrap P2 MXF footage in .mov files?

[Bret Williams]

I does rewrap P2/AVC-Intra. It’s fast because unlike 7 you can start working right away while it does the rewrap in the background. You don’t have to transcode/optimize, but you can. You won’t have the option to “leave files in place” as it has to rewrap and place them either in the library or externally to another folder.

[D. scott Dobbie]

That explains a lot, Brett. The wrapping is fine (well, I’ll still budget in an extra drive for the wrapped footage, as before), but at least I won’t have all the down time.

Thanks!

[Jeremy Garchow]

Currently, MXF4mac doesn’t work with Op-Atom p2 files in FCPX (support is forthcoming), but I think Calibrated software makes a helper application that will allow to edit P2 files natively in FCPX saving a rewrap step.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CahE1xBKro

It costs money, but saves time and disk space.

Jeremy

[Bill Davis]

I just finished a 22 hour virtual Battan Death March Edit at a big technical conference show at 5am this morning. (I try to keep my hand in as a working editor since theory is one thing, real field experience is something else!)

Client’s P2 card reader into my laptop – used SCDI to make a SparseBundle of each card as they came in. Stored those on an external 2TB FW800 drive.

Since it was one of those edit tonight show tomorrow AM deals – I didn’t bother transcoding to either ProRes or Proxy – just worked with the native files.

Was able to import and cut the shows on a 1280×1024 storyline without breaking much of a sweat.

Sometimes not having taken the time to do the ProRes versions made things a wee bit more “sluggish” than I’m used to with transcoded files, but overall the whole process was pretty painless.

Bottom line: Don’t worry about it. X handles P2 card field just fine. I just checked and the files technically were MXF 1440×1080 at 29.970 AVC (Component) (High 10@L4.0 CABC) AVC-Intra 50)

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