Importing MXF files into FCP 6.0

[Dennis Dean]

Shane – on 2/10 you wrote

“There is no native MXF editing in FCP…not with FCP alone. You need third party software to deal with that, like MXF4MAC, Calibrated or Raylight. But if you get the Sony XDCAM Log and Transfer plugin, you can then import the files as .mov quicktimes. FCP is designed to work with QT files. Why not import that way? Why the insistence on editing native MXF? There is no quality loss.”

This is good news – as I am considering a camera ( Canon XF 105) about to be released that outputs MPEG-2, 4:2:2 video in an MXF file format on CF Cards and shoots 60p/60i, 30p and 24p at up to 50Mbps and uses the Canon XF Codec.

Two questions – Do you know whether the Sony plug-in you mentioned above would work with this video, enabling me to import the files as Quicktime? Or is there a better way that I should be looking at before purchase?

Thanks – always enjoy your posts!

PS _ I’m currently running FCP 6.06 on a Dual 2 GHz Power PC G5 with 4 GB of RAM.

Dennis Dean
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