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Importing Hyperdeck DNxHD MXF files into Vegas 12
I have searched near and far to find out how to import Avid DNxHD MXF files into Sony Vegas Pro 12. I have the Avid Codec LE pack installed, but Vegas and Quicktime do not recognize the MXF files. I do see in Vegas that I can Render to that format, so it seems to be proof that the codec pack was installed. HELP!
p.s.: I did move the files in the Program Files(x86)/Quicktime/QTsystem folder.
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3 Replies
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The Avid LE codec pack only support DNxHD in Quicktime MOV files since it is a Quicktime codec pack. Same for encoding.
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Well, is there any way to convert a DNxHD MXF file to something Vegas can deal with?
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Hi Jim,
you can use FFMBC.It’s a command line utility that can rewrap your AVID MXF into Quicktime. You can download the windows version of it.
In fact it can convert almost any format into other.
There’s a paper I found that has instructions of how to convert any file into AVID quicktime:
6143_encodingforavidwithffmbc120114.pdf.zip
But your issue is simpler, because both files use the same video codec.
I do not have a AVID MXF file for testing but the command should be aproximately this:
ffmbc -i input.mxf -vcodec copy output.mov
The command line above does not have options regarding audio ou video tags that can be necessary for a successful conversion, but it’s a start point.
In my case, I use it to rewrap (not convert) Vegas XDCAM422 MXF files to Quicktime XDCAM files. I Use this command:
ffmbc -i input.mxf -tff -vcodec copy -vtag xd5b -an -threads 8 output.mov -acodec pcm_s24le -ar 48000 -newaudio -map_audio_channel 0:1:0:0:1:0 -map_audio_channel 0:2:0:0:1:1
where:
-tff means “top field first”-vcodec copy means that the output file will use the same codec
-vtag xd5b means that the output file shoul be marked as 1080i60
-an means “audio none” i.e. it tells FFMBC not to copy the source audio
-threads 8 tells FFMBC to start 8 process simultaneously (which can accelerate the whole process). My machine has 8 cores, so this is the logical choice
-acodec pcm_s24le is the audio output codec
-ar 48000 is the audio output sample rate
-newaudio opens a empty audio output stream
-map_audio_channel determines how the input audio channel should be routed to the output.
This last option demands an explanation:
In this case, it takes the mono audio 1 of the input (stream 0.1, channel 0 or 0:1:0) and route it to the left channel of the output (0:1:0)Respectively, it takes the mono audio 2 of the MXF (stream 0.2 channel 0 or 0:2:0) and route it to the right channel of the output (0:1:1)
I hope this helps.
Regards
Adelson
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