Fixing Damaged MXF Files

[Jonny Revolt]

I will try that in P2cms, I have been able to also open the MXF files in QT and export them as ProRes Qt’s and then stitch the video and audio back together in FCP. Thanks again for your help.

Jonny

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Jonny Revolt] ” have been able to also open the MXF files in QT and export them as ProRes Qt’s and then stitch the video and audio back together in FCP.”

Yeah, that makes sense if the video is acutally there. In the clip you sent, there’s nothing there, even though it looks like it.

Good luck, Jonny. And sorry I had to break it to you.

Jeremy

[Jonny Revolt]

Yep do what ya can do, and that’s all you can do in post, wasn’t there I am just the editor. So now it’s time to get clever.

Jonny

[Jonny Revolt]

BTW what program did you use to open the MXF file? I tried it with Xcode…

Jonny

[Jeremy Garchow]

I couldn’t open it.

[Jonny Revolt]

I wanted to post a resolution to the damaged MXF files and the fact they wouldn’t convert from the toast .iso files. I had thought the media was gone and was going to have a bear of an edit because I had 2 hours of the 12 hours that were shot. I had decided as a last ditch effort to send a drive with the media to a friend who was an UNIX programmer. He was able to go in and grab the files and copy them to another folder without mounting the .ISO files. Well I got the drive back and was able to convert 95% of the footage into FCP in the new folders he created (ie. standard OSX folders like they were on the P2 card). So basically the .iso files were not allowing me to read and write all of the data contained in the compressed files, although everything was there. So other than about 8 minutes of damaged footage full of digital noise the entire shoot was saved and I was able to edit a good product in the end. The lesson here is use only tried and true P2 procedures like shot put.

I would like to thank everyone who helped with this and I know what to tell people on set to do before I get the footage and don’t have another nightmare

Jonny

[Jeremy Garchow]

Thanks for the follow up.

[Jonny Revolt] ” I had decided as a last ditch effort to send a drive with the media to a friend who was an UNIX programmer. He was able to go in and grab the files and copy them to another folder without mounting the .ISO files”

Nice, and that’s one of the ways you had to do it. You can open the file in certain situations, but it’s not for the faint of heart to try and fix the bit matrix. I know I can’t do it.

Jeremy

[Jonny Revolt]

Thanks again for your help! Hopefully I won’t be posting anytime soon, as I try to avoid these problems!

Jonny

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Jonny Revolt] “Hopefully I won’t be posting anytime soon,”

Nonsense. Post whenever about whatever. It’s what this place is about. You learn about what you don’t know!

Cheers,

Jeremy

[Sebastien Pancrazi]

Hello Jonny

I have the same problem on 1 shot
i have 4 MXF and 2 of the the are digital noise
I need the the last one shot wjth is 3,05 G0

Could u ask your friend if he could do it again

Many thanx

Sébastien