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I can’t work with my converted MXF’s in Premiere
I’m having a problem with some files I converted to edit in Premiere CS4 on PC. The files I received were originally xdcam .mov’s on a Mac hard drive. I used the Convergent Design file converter to rewrap them into .mxf files on a friend’s macbook, and then used Macdrive to access them and copy them onto one of my pc hard drives. The .mxf files play fine in VLC, but the problem comes when I try to either edit them or convert them.
I can open them in Premiere, but only the first 2 minutes and 24 seconds of each file will play, after which the video will just stop, and I can’t scrub any further in the timeline. If I try to convert them in Media Encoder, I get an unknown error, and the output file only contains the first 2 minutes and 24 seconds of information, and that time is the same amount across every clip I’ve converted.
As a test, I downloaded a demo of Sony Vegas to try with the files, and the clips play fine in that. I can also render them out of Vegas, but the files are quite large and there’s a lot of them, and anyway I’d rather not spend the time doing that if there’s another option. So I guess my question is, is there an easier way to get my files to work with Premiere?
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Make sure that NONE of the files have the same file name.
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Main Concept has a plugin that enables PPro to handle the Convergent Design files.
35 Mbit XDcam files from EX cameras are MP4 wrappers…if they were wrapped as QT .movs, I wonder if FCP converted these?
PPro handles straight XDcam files without any conversion, so I wonder if you can get the files from the camera?
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,
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