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Importing Canon XMF Files
Hi,
I’m new to Vegas, I just got Vegas 10 Pro on my new PC (i5 2500k, 16gb ram, Nvidia Gtx560 Ti graphics, should be a dream to edit with), coming from FCP7 on mac.
Each clip is in it’s own folder titled with the same number as the clip, and I’m wondering how I would be able to take each clip out of its folder and import them, so I don’t have to go through each folder and import the clips individually, as that would take forever.
Any suggestions would be awesome.
Cheers! Tom.
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Yeah, total pain.
I have a Canon XF300. It produces XMF files. The Canon came with a Utility that allows me to export aggregated XMF files to a single folder. I then drag these files to the Project Media pane and off I go.
That’s one way.
Another way I use is the SONY Media Manager. This is good as I can again aggregate/collect any XMF files and prior to importing into the Project Media pane I can audition the clips and them organise clips into a more of a logical, pre edit, narrative.
There is yet another way, which I haven’t tried yet, and that us to use the SONY XDCAM Utility. Haven’t gone down this route.
Ok, for me, apart from XDCAM, these are working for me. Here is one major caveat you need to be aware of. I use CF cards. CF cards are only formatted in fat32. This means that long form takes are clamped to chained 2gb file sizes. Anything over 2gb and you get chains of files. Drag an hour lecture onto the timeline you’ve got several files. Depending on the bitrate, you’ll have more or less. I’ve needed to render these chains to a further XMF to go ahead with multicam! If I didn’t I’d have ended up with a bowl of spaghetti.
So, several ways to deal with my Canon output. Standard Definition, tape based file management it ain’t.
If I do sound weary about this, it’s true. Clip naming and chaining are just two of the silllinesses I’d have thought we’d got down and dusted, by now, being in the 21st Century?
Grazie
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I usually just do a search in the main folder for the file extension. example .mp4 and copy and paste those into a sub folder. import that.
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See MXF format organizes one video track and 2 audio tracks in their own separate files contained within one folder, and then editing programs such as FCP, Avid, or Vegas, detect the format and when importing the footage they combine the files into one single importable file through their media browsers. So when looking through folder on your desktop there are 3 separate files. Which makes copying 3 files for each clip into a base-folder quite tricky, as I’m not sure if it will recognize that they’re MXF type files when there are a whole bnuch all together. I’ll try it and see what happens.
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You might try it. I have never had to copy all of the files over. It seemed to find the audio files…
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