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formatted wrong card- how hosed are we?
Greetings from Moscow. The short version of the story is that someone (not me!) put the wrong card into the camera, & formatted it before the footage was backed up or transfered into FCP. We took the card to a data recovery specialist (waaaay cheaper here in Moscow, BTW), who gave us back 2 3.81 Gb files (I’m suspicious already, because both files are exactly 4,096,000,000 bytes).
After searching here & on google, it looks like there’s no program on the Mac that will read .mxf files and let us export them to QT. Am I right (I’d rather not be)? how about windows? Could we take the files into another NLE, perhaps & export from there? Or should we just bite the bullit & re-shoot?
I’ve been very doubtful all along that we could recover anything useful, but other people keep pushing in some hope that we’ll magically be able to recover & import these files.
Thanks & dast’vania
Arnie
On location in Moscow for Peristroika, a film by Slava Tsukerman
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[Arniepix] “After searching here & on google, it looks like there’s no program on the Mac that will read .mxf files and let us export them to QT.”
FCP 5.0.4 or later will, and Imagine Software’s P2 Log will.
On Windows there is one that does exactly what you want, Serious Magic’s new DVCPRO-HD decoder will read MXF files and output FCP-compatible QT movies.
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FCP 5.0.4 or later will, and Imagine Software’s P2 Log will.
They will if you have a P2 directory. I was looking for software to read an MXF file that’s not on a P2 card. As it turns out, the director expected we’d never recover the files anyway, & was expecting to reshoot. It was our producer who kept insisting that we wait to see if we could recover the files first. The reshoot is scheduled & I can finally put this behind me.
Arnie
On location in Moscow for Peristroika, a film by Slava Tsukerman
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[Arniepix] “I was looking for software to read an MXF file that’s not on a P2 card.”
They will. All the utilities will work from a hard disk or a card. You will need to have the proper directory structure, but you certainly don’t need a card to do it.
If you don’t have the proper directory structure but you do have at least the video and audio MXF files, you can import those into Avid or EDIUS and export whatever format you need.
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[Barry Green] “You will need to have the proper directory structure, but you certainly don’t need a card to do it.”
Well, I wasn’t clear enought, but that was the point I was trying to make. We didn’t have the directory structure. It turns out that we couldn’t recover the files, anyway (which I didn’t think we would). So we solved the problem by firing the assistant who screwed up & by re-shooting the scene. Thanks for offering to help, though!
Arnie
On location in Moscow for Peristroika, a film by Slava Tsukerman
https://www.arniepix.com/blog
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