XDCAM software update, FCP X Export to .mp4/.mxf

[Charles Diego-roll]

Hi Ian,

I have limited success with the new Content Browser exporter, specifically with the audio, and was wondering if there is anything that I can do to bypass the problem.

I am exporting out of FCP X with the following settings:

XDCam HD422, 50 mbps

I have only had a successful conversion to an MXF wrapper when I export with 8 mono tracks. Any other audio configuration gives me an error message when I try to convert the file, and I need to be able to export channels 1 & 2 as stereo tracks.

Any ideas on how I can get around this?

Thanks for the help.

Best regards,
Charlie

[Ian Cook]

XDCAM HD422 must have 8 mono channels of 24 bit audio. It’s normal for the export to fail of you don’t set this correctly.

[Charles Diego-roll]

Hi Ian,

Thanks for quick response. Does that mean that you cannot have stereo on tracks 1&2 on an XDcam HD 422 disk? Is there a way that I can save stereo tracks so that the exporter recognizes them as mono tracks, but they behave as stereo?

Thanks again for all the help.

Best regards,
Charlie

[Giulia Spera]

Hallo we are trying to export from FCP 7 to .mxf.
It says “error writing to fle”.
Please help..we never did this kind of export.

[Kevin Langdon]

I posted the following in another thread but also thought it may be relevant here to try to get a reply:

I’m able to export my .mxf file to a SxS card, but then I’m having a problem playing this card in a Sony SxS card player (in a sat truck, for example).
The method I’ve been told is after exporting an edit from my laptop, take the SxS card and put it back into the Sony camera and update the clip in the menu. This allows me to see the edit in the camera and even play it out of the camera, but if I take the card out and put it in the player, there’s nothing there??
If I don’t do this and just export to the card from the laptop, the player says there’s nothing there.
In Avid, for this to work, you have to do an audio mix down first so there’s only two tracks.
Is there something that I’m missing in FCP X on the audio side to enable this export to work properly??
I don’t know if Ian Cook can help on this one??