Spanned P2 MXF into FCP7

[Jack Lenk]

Rolf, I’m finding the same issue with DVCPRO HD 720p files as well. It’s really tricky to get the single files to mix in a sequence with the spanned (sequenced) ones, because they each react differently to resizing the canvas as you suggest…

UPDATE: Modifying the XML is working for me. I can batch many “spanned clips” in one export, then search and replace in BBEdit. Thanks for the tip!

Nick and I can’t be the only ones experiencing this issue – anyone else out there??

Thanks,
Jack

[Rolf Howarth]

Take a look at https://www.squarebox.co.uk/download/CatDVPro10.0b6.dmg and see if it fixes the aspect ratio problem.

[Jack Lenk]

I’m sorry, Rolf, but the fix in v10.0b6 is not working for me. I tried
1. on the existing catalog, using the magic door to FCP7
2. on the existing catalog, export to FCP7 XML
3. re-import footage to new catalog, magic door
4. new catalog, export to FCP7 XML

Both times the XML needed to be modified by hand to come through correctly. My footage is DVCProHD 720p60, and the XML listed its width as 1280. When I change that to 960 it looks ok. But that was the same in CatDV v9

The v10 interface is looking nice, though!
Thanks,
Jack

[Rolf Howarth]

Sorry for the delay replying, still catching up after Broadcast Asia last week.

You say that’s an existing catalog? Can you try importing the DVCProHD clip again (or use the Reanalyse Media command) with the latest version of CatDV and see if it works then?

10.0b5 and later added a new metadata field “EncodedDimension” that stores the native codec dimensions rather than display dimensions and the FCP7 exporter uses this information.

[Jack Lenk]

Rolf,

I tried the Re-Analyze Media command but it failed, saying
“Reanalysing 0007NK failed (File not found for ‘0007NK’)”

So I created a new catalog in CatDV 10.0b6 and imported that whole P2 camera card. Tried the FCP backdoor, still appeared distorted. Tried Export to XML for FCP7, still distorted. Opened and modified that XML file to change 1280 to 960, then it appeared correctly in FCP.

I couldn’t find that new “EncodedDimension” field you mentioned. I’m attatching here a ZIP of the exported FCP XML, as well as CatDV XML and a PDF of Clip Summary for your reference.
4369_p2spannedclipxml.zip

Please let me know if there’s anything else I can try. Thanks again for all your help with this.
Jack

[Rolf Howarth]

Strange, that code should work and be in 10.0b6 as far as I know.

Can you quit and relaunch CatDV so you start a new session then import the P2 clip into the catalog, save it as a .cdv catalog file then mail me that and the CatDV Error Log (accessible from the Help menu) to rolf@squarebox.co.uk?

Thanks,

-Rolf

[Jack Lenk]

SOLVED. Rolf, you’re a genius. Your suggestion to upgrade my Calibrated MXF component to the latest version (2.2.0) resolved the issue. The magic-door to FCP7 now works as it should, in CatDV v10 (though not in v9).

Thanks again!
Jack