Importing Clips, transcoded from FCP

[Tim Kolb]

[Todd Schmidt] “The only things that works is changing them to an mpg. “

As much as I am glad you at least found something that works…I still don’t feel I understand why it works…

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Video Producer at I-CAR

[Todd Schmidt]

I know Tim…it’s odd, and I’m gonna have to do a lot of work arounds since I’m sharing this project with someone. I called Adobe and they said there was a downloadable x54 prores codec, but they won’t direct me to it. I’m still in detective mode though.

I’ll let ya know! Thanks for everything!

Todd

[Todd Schmidt]

Actually Tim, I narrowed this down to this family of codecs:
XDCAM HD422

xd54 is in there. Now I need to know why I don’t have them, where I can get them, etc.

Searching!

Todd

[Todd Schmidt]

Sorry for so many posts, but here’s what I found. There’s nothing wrong with Premiere importing and play the xd54 footage. It’s XDCAM…that’s not it. It’s the QT wrapper that is causing the problem. XDCam is usually has a .mp4 or MXF extension. FOr some reason the tricaster uses a QT wrapper. So when I changed it to an mpg it worked. I also changed them to an .mp4 and they work.

I have a Sony EX3 and it records as BRAV folders. In there are mp4 files.

Very weird how this happened.

Todd

[Alex Udell]

Pemiere will use multiple path ways to decode an image…(part of what makes mercury mercury)

in this case it looks to be basing that on the extension (the first thing it finds)…

so it sees .mov….it uses the quicktime library…

but since in this case it’s only a soft wrapping of the data….and you can still get to i another way….

Premiere can interpret the native data bypassing the quicktime wrapper.

As a side note…

This might even provide better performance as well…as quicktime on windows uses a 32bit path, not a 64 bit one…..

nice detective work!

Alex Udell
Editing, Motion Graphics, and Visual FX

[Todd Schmidt]

Thanks Alex,

I really appreciate all the help I get here. In the case of the DP who shot it, all I got was the insinuation that I’m not a professional and lack professional equipment, haha!

Thanks!

Todd