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Matrox DVCPRO HD DSX avi file from Win Premiere system into FCP
Hey everyone,
Scoured the web and this site and it feels like I’m the only person on the internet that’s trying to accomplish this particular feat.
I have footage coming in that was recorded to DVCPRO HD tape and digitized via some type of Matrox capture card/breakout box on an Adobe Premiere Windows system. I have an 8 sec sample of the footage that seems to be encoded in some proprietary Matrox DVCPRO HD codec. MediaInfo is telling me video codec is dvh1 and is “Encoded with: Matrox DSX AVI file. Format: 6. Build: 1.0.0.396.” The clip will open in quicktime, but audio only, no video. It also seems that Matrox does not make an OSX compatible codec for this format.
I have a Win7 install on my machine and was able to get the clip to play back in Windows after downloading Matrox’s VFW codec package.
The options now as I see it are to either have the person delivering the files transcode the master files via Adobe Media Encoder into something more platform agnostic, like say Cineform or DNxHD or deliver the master tapes and then take it to a transfer house to have the tapes transfered to Quicktime DVCPRO HD or ProRes. Neither one of these options are particularly attractive for different reasons.
The person delivering this is also claiming that his “Mac friend” is able to play this footage on his system, but isn’t able to get to this issue until Monday, so I’m curious if I’m missing something and there is a way to get this footage into FCP without stepping on it or recapturing. I’ve also spoken with Matrox and they don’t have any solution beyond transcode or recapture.
Below is a link to the sample clip.
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/5473641/derby1.avi?dl
I’ll be cross-posting this in the Matrox forum, but I though I would post here since the FCP forum has a bit more traffic.
Thank you for your time.
-Graham
OSX 10.6.3
AE CS5, Nuke 5.1.3
FC Studio 3
Octo 2.26GB MacPro, 16 GB RAM -
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Have the Premiere guy export the file as DVCPRO HD MXF (P2 format). That will import into FCP just like any P2 media.
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Hey Eric,
Thanks for the response.
If I’m not mistaken, wouldn’t I need a third party application like Raylight to rewrap the MXF files since FCP can only ingest P2 MXFs when they are contained in an appropriately organized files structure with XML data and not supported natively?
We can try a test, but that’s where my thinking leads me.
Also, would this be something that could be done as a batch in Adobe Media Encoder?
Thanks.
-Graham
OSX 10.6.3
AE CS5, Nuke 5.1.3
FC Studio 3
Octo 2.26GB MacPro, 16 GB RAM -
The Matrox MXF export in Premiere creates the proper file/folder structure. We use this feature frequently, as it is the best way to pass material from PPro (Win) to FCP using a compressed video format.
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Hey Eric,
That did it!
Thank you so much.
-Graham
OSX 10.6.3
AE CS5, Nuke 5.1.3
FC Studio 3
Octo 2.26GB MacPro, 16 GB RAM
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