p2 in iMovieHD

[Shane Ross]

Sorry, no. iMovie doesn’t do DVCPRO HD. DV, HDV and AVCHD only. And even if you shot DV with P2, iMovie does not work with P2.

Shane

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[Scott Bell]

Ok, thanks Shane. It was a curiosity, and now it’s satisfied 🙂

[Bjoern Adamski]

Hi Shane,

there are some tools out there that even allow iMovie to import P2 and other MXF media. 😉

Best
Bjoern

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[Bjoern Adamski]

Sure. MXF4QT stands for MXF for QuickTime. Any QuickTime compatible Mac OS X application can interface with MXF4QT, most of them do so. It’s not only for FCP, it works with Color, Motion and others.

Best
Bjoern

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[Bjoern Adamski]

That said, the DVCPRO HD codec is provided by FCP so it’s not available on a an iMovie only system.

However iMovie does not support timecode therefore the free P2CMS 1.37 could probably do the same as it installs a basic P2 MXF reader as well and a free DVCPRO HD decoder component.

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[Shane Ross]

Oho. So this makes it work with iMovie eh?

He’s talking about mxf4qt.

Shane

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[Scott Bell]

Thanks guys! The price might be out of my range on this little project, but then again it might not be. I’ll check out the demo tonight.

[Bjoern Adamski]

P2CMS from Panasonic is for free and I think it should do the job for iMovie since this is not a professional workflow where timecode is required.

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[Greg Booth]

Hi Scott,

Here’s two products from my website to check out:

Calibrated{Q} MXF Import for OSX

https://www.calibratedsoftware.com/MXFImportQ_OSX.html

this lets you import MXF files into QuickTime based applications – and it marries the separate video/audio MXF Files of the P2 so applications see it as one file.

Calibrated{Q} DVCProHD Decode for OSX

https://www.calibratedsoftware.com/DVCProHDDecodeQ.html

a QuickTime Codec for users that don’t have FCP installed – this is used in conjunction with the above product so you can then import and edit P2 MXF Files in QuickTime based applications when you dont have FCP installed (which comes with a DVCProHD Codec).

Free demos on the links above.

Cheers,
Greg

[Bjoern Adamski]

Hi Greg,

much respect for your solution but I don’t think it works for iMovie as iMovie copies or moves the selected video file to the project folder and like this the original P2 CONTENTS structure is not available anymore. As far as I understand your solution it won’t find the audio and timecode anymore in this case.

Best
Bjoern

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