Premiere CC + Canon C300 MXF files

[Peter Garaway]

Hi Lucy,

C-300 files playback fine in Premiere Pro CC. New in Premiere Pro CC we offer a sync by audio feature. PluralEyes also works great in Premiere Pro CC and provides more options to options to fine tune syncing.

Hope you enjoy CC!

Peter Garaway
Adobe
Premiere Pro

[Andie Moonie]

no need to transcode the MXF files they work fine in Premiere. However when copying your cards always copy the entire contents folder and this will prevent longer clips being broken down into their individual files as a 30 minute piece of footage will actually be made up of 3 or 4 individual files on the card. Use the media browser within Premiere to import your clips as it will see these files as one clip as long as you have imported the entire contents of the card and not just the individual media clips. On the card all the media clips are in seperate folders and this makes using the import media menu option a lot more cumbersome but the media browser window handles them no problem.

[Andrea Barnett]

Hi Andie,

Just wanted to chime in on your comment saying “However when copying your cards always copy the entire contents folder and this will prevent longer clips being broken down into their individual files as a 30 minute piece of footage will actually be made up of 3 or 4 individual files on the card.”

Myself and all my coworkers are having the issue where we are bringing in C300 footage and the clips are spanned and broken up instead of combining into the big long clips it’s should be in. We are making sure to keep their folder structure in tact so that shouldn’t be the problem.

Any ideas?

[Andie Moonie]

Are you importing the files via premieres media browser ? If you click import files and then try to browse for clips in windows explorer then you will get the broken files, but the media browser panel within premiere sees the entire clip. I have never used the C300 but I would expect the media browser to able to identify the relevant clips. The XF300 creates MXF files and if I pull the entire card over to my hard drive then as soon as I select the contents folder within the media browser panel it sees all the clips on the card without me having to open all the individual folders that have been created for each of the clips and any longer clips are joined up. If you are not seeing this then check for updates as support for new cameras are often added this way.

Andie

[Andrea Barnett]

Yes, we have tried three different ways of importing the footage and still get broken files. Maybe we are bringing them in the wrong way through the media browser? The way we’ve been doing it is we will go to our media browser and locate our files and see them in clip format, then right click on the contents folder and select “import”. This give us broken files.

Is there a different way to import through the media browser then right clicking on the folder?

[Jerry Aimee]

In fact, Adobe Premiere CC users can not enjoy the 1080i videos after editing, since XF Plug-in can not help them, only the 1280*720 video accepted. It means you have to convert C300 MXF footages to Premiere CC compatible format MPG/MOV with a top MXF Conveter for CC. I used UFU Soft MXF Converter for Mac, which can fast transcode SD MXF videos to MPG/MOV for CC on Mac OS X with best vido quality. and From this article,you can Learn More about Canon C300 MXF on CC for editing.

[Tom Small]

I got 1080 to work by just copying the entire “contents” folder off the card onto my drive, and then just right-clicking in project window and importing it. Sequence settings confirm 1080 resolution.

HOWEVER, when I tried using Canons backup xf utility I could not get it to work correctly. FYI

Tom