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Sony F55 XAVC MXF to ProRes using Premiere
I need a little help. We’re doing a workflow test for a project and I’m stuck. We shot 4K XAVC mxf with s-gamut and we’re trying to import it into…anything.
The logic was not to use 2 cameras on the shoot and use one 4K and then punch in and out. But we can’t import the footage into resolve or premiere. (VLC plays it just fine though) I’ve downloaded all the codecs I could find associated with XAVC and still nothing works.
Because we need the flexibility to punch in and out, a simple conversion wouldn’t work unless there was a way to scale and shift the frame in the conversion software. Ideally, I’d want to use the proxies to edit and then before the final render just replace the proxies with the cc’d 4K. But none of that really matters if I can’t open the footage anywhere.
Any thoughts?
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Which version of Premiere Pro are you using?
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If you are having troubles using XAVC with Premiere, Davinci, or other software packages you can check an up to date software compatibility matrix I put together covering everything from Smoke to Avid.
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/3/948791
Also in my post there are a couple guides to import XAVC into Davinci and FCP X which can be useful for creating proxy files so later you can use a round-trip approach to grading your project. There is a lot of info on the web on how “round-trip” process using Premiere, FCP 7, FCP X as your NLE and through XML export use Davinci to grade your files.
In your case because you plan to do post frame scaling or punch-ins this will really tear apart the edit in Davinci (along with most dissolves, title effects, and other NLE specific timeline parameters or settings) so I recommend after your grade you swap out your proxy files for the newly graded ones coming out of Davinci. There are two ways to do this, one is physically replace your proxy files with the new ones keeping the same file name, the other is from within your NLE and by pointing to the new directory with the graded files. I prefer swaping out the proxy files for the new graded ones, just rename the actual folders so you keep the proxies incase they are needed.
Cheers,
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Hi Jerry,
Not sure your XAVC file conversion with scale problem is solved by now or not? In case you still need some help, you may want to check out isovideo’s Viarte standards conversion/transcoding services at https://www.isovideo.com/services.php. We could transcode your XAVC files to prores HQ for example and scale them at the same time (up to 2000 files can be handled with a single command).
You may want to check out our scaling examples at https://www.isovideo.com/rescape.php and many Viarte conversion examples at https://www.isovideo.com/viarte_conversion_examples.php. Viarte was one of five prestigious Game-Changer Awards winner by the IABM and NAB 2013, and the Viarte server was used for Footage Conversion in two-time Academy-Award winning director Ron Howard’s new concert documentary “Made in America”.
We will soon be lunching a 4k workflow collaboration program using Viarte, if your are interested and image quality is high, we could do the conversion for you for free.
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Apple ProRes is Apple’s professional video codec which has been designed to work especially well as high-quality, high-performance editing codecs for Final Cut Pro. There are many types of Apple ProRes, for editing in FCP regardless of version, Apple ProRes 422 MOV is an ideal one. I used a professional tool to encode MXF videos into Apple ProRes.
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