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XDCAM files captured through FCP unreadable on Premiere in Windows.
The files were all created either with XDCAM decks or XDCAM-EX cameras and then imported and/or edited in FCP. There is no way to get the files without them having gone through FCP first, and through some digging on here and elsewhere I believe that is the problem.
The station where I produced worked entirely on Macs in XDCAM and ProRes, but my personal editor is Premiere with Windows 7. The files are .mov and are the direct copies I have on a hard drive for use in my reels. My CS6 returns an error message of “codec missing or unavailable” when I try to import them.
I have attempted several times to transcode the files to something usable. VLC media player will play the files, but any attempt to use its transcoding feature produces white video with no audio. I have access to Adobe Media Encoder and Procoder 3 though colleagues but both programs produce errors when trying to even import the files. That was the final straw for me today, as I haven’t ever run in to a format issue I haven’t been able to fix with one of those two programs.
I have been fighting this problem for going on two years, and actually had to leave my best stuff out of my last demo reel because of this issue. I am now back in the job hunt again, and it is unacceptable at this point not to have two years of my work shown. I am willing to pay for a codec pack to install if that is what will truly fix this issue, but after struggling with these files for so long I am unwilling to shell out $100-$350 just to discover that it doesn’t fix my problem at all.
I am running Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 on Windows 7 with an Intel CPU. I have included a link below to a mega account with three of the files in it in case that helps anyone diagnose the issue.
Any help would be greatly appreciated; I am in the midst of trying to cut a new reel to apply for jobs.
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5 Replies
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IIRC FCP captured XDCAM and HDV are one of those formats that just will not work on Windows. You could try this https://www.calibratedsoftware.com/QXD.asp
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Do you have the XDCAM codec installed on your windows machine? You usually import into FCP using Log and Transfer, which rewraps the .mxf file as a Quicktime file. You still need the XDCAM codec.
You can download it for free from Sony here:
https://pro.sony.com/bbsc/ssr/micro-xdcam/resource.downloads.bbsccms-assets-micro-xdcam-downloads-XDCAMSoftwareDownload.shtml#apps -
Just a FYI we added native support for .mxf rewrapped as a Quicktime file in Premiere Pro CC.
Best,
Peter Garaway
Adobe
Premiere Pro -
I know I’m coming into this conversation late, but I’ve been having this issue with XDcam wrapped in QT’s. they were exported using a tricastor. They will only play on a Mac that has FCP. I’m sharing a project with someone using PPCC2014 and he’s on a Mac. When he handed me the project, I was unable to import the files and view them. I’m not paying $149 for the Callibrated Q decode. I found a workaround by renaming the file extensions to all of the clips to .mp4. Unfortunately, I have to relink every single clip to view the project…over 300.I wish that CC2014 would be able to read the original QT files, but during my research I found that it has something to do with the XDcam codec wrapped in QT. Something to do with a proprietary FCP QT thing.
Todd
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Hi Todd,
Would you be willing to provide me a small sample file that I can look at? You may be right that either FCP/Compressor or Callibrated Q has to be installed at the moment.
Thanks,
Peter Garaway
Adobe
Premiere Pro
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