exporting QT to edit in FinalCutPro

[Arnie Schlissel]

MXF media is not Quicktime. MXF and QT are “wrappers” for any number of codecs. FCP does not use MXF media. Avid codecs can conflict with some capture cards on FCP systems.

If you want to export media to be used with an FCP system, it needs to be in QT format and it needs to be in a codec that the other editor has installed. Ask the other editor what codec will be best. If you don’t have that codec, then work down the list of what the other editor can use, and what you have.

Apple’s 8 bit & 10 bit uncompressed codecs will work with any recent FCP system with fast drives. Photo JPEG will work with most FCP systems- set the quality to 75% and it will maintain very good quality.

Arnie
Post production is not an afterthought!
https://www.arniepix.com/

[Bjoern Adamski]

FCP does not use MXF media.

From now on it does and for the first time FCP is able to read native Avid MXF media.

Better than this we use the IMX codec from FCP to interprete Avid IMX MXF media files for full realtime effects editing including video playout – like it would be a native MOV.

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MXF4mac
https://mxf4mac.com

[Arnie Schlissel]

[Bjoern Adamski] “From now on it does and for the first time FCP is able to read native Avid MXF media.”

If I may paraphrase Gary Cooper, you’d better smiley face when you type that! 😉

That’s a very cool looking product, Bjoern, many thanks!

Arnie
Post production is not an afterthought!
https://www.arniepix.com/

[Gunnar Kordestani]

hi Arnie,

yes you are right. Sorry, maybe I didn’t make myself clear enough. I found a solution in the FCP forum to install Avid codes on a MAC and then just use them in FCP. Only to get 4 Audio tracks on the QT from the Avid is still an issue.

In the export settings (newscutter XP) I can only choose mono or stereo. So ist this a Problem of the Avid? As far as I know a QT should be capable of carrying 4 audio tracks, right?

thx anyway
Gunnar