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Editing MXF video files with Premiere Pro
Hi,
I’ve got the opportunity to shoot this week-end with Panasonic HD camera and I really want to try HD with it. Unfortunatly, PPro cannot edit MXF files on its own. I’ve tried the demo version of Raylight and it works fine, it’s amazing, but as it’s a demo version, I’ve got the watermarks…
I came to understand that Adobe OnLocation could handle DVCproHD files, but I still quite don’t get how it works. Do you think I can convert or whatever the MXF files into a format that Premiere will understand with OnLocation or am I completely missing the point?
The HD footage I’ve got looks soooo amazing, that it would be a shame if I can’t edit my project in HD.Thanks for any help.
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8 Replies
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Download a trial copy of Cineform Aspect HD. It is only good for 15 days so edit in a hurry! The trial is fully funtional.
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On a side note, since you seem worried about the cost of Raylight, you might want to sit down before pressing that buy button on Cineform 😉
Vince
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Vince,
Too true. But at least Cineform allows you to try it without limitations other than time. And once you love it, the price becomes slightly less of a problem than when you first see it.
Steven
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Well, next to the cost of those 16 Gigs P2 chips that nobody can even buy right now, that still isn’t all that bad…
Vince
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Wouaw! Thanx both of you, this is a very good news actually, I didn’t know that the demo version was without limitation (other than time that is!)… I’m going to try that, thank you so much! You saved my day!
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I just bought an HVX200 and imported an MXF file into premiere from the VIDEO folder on my firestore FS-100. Premiere played the file fine and let me use it freely on the timeline. However when I disconnected the firestore the file went offline. Is there a way to have Premiere automatically transfer the necessary files (audio video XML etc) to a scratch folder so the video becomes native to my computer the way FCP does? What do you suggest?
Thanks
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Just make your footage offline in Premiere, copy the entire folder from the Firestore to a local drive, then link your footage back in Premiere to the local files. You really don’t want to edit from the Firestore unless you really have to.
The other issue could have to do with the drive letter changing. If you connect say a USB stick before the Firestore after a restart, the file path in Premiere now points to the stick since it was assigned the drive letter previously assigned to the Firestore.
Right click on my computer > Manage > Disk management > Right click on the drive your footage is on and change the letter to something way up in the alphabet.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area -
Cineform would be a great company.. but should lower the costs quite considerably… You cnnot spend more than 50-80 $ for a codec! Consider that Pro-Res in free on Mac
Editing MXF in Premiere (MAC) causes some problems to me. Single files play very well.. no jitter.. fast speed etc… But if you have a long (5 minutes) timeline software sucks.. ooops.. stucks
siRoma di Marcello Mazzilli
Corporate video productions in Italy
http://www.siroma.com
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