xdcam transfer / codec crash

[Rafael Amador]

Hi Martin,
Calibrated in incompatible with FC in the same machine.
You use one or the other.
rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com

[Martin Kleinert]

Hi Rafael,
thanks. but if i delete “Calibrated” then i have no codec for my EX shots and xdcam transfer tells me: “missing codecs….”.
which one must i use / which one is compatible then?

cheers, martin

[Rafael Amador]

Hi Martin,
There are two ways to get the codec:
– Final Cut
– The Calibrated Plugin.
As I said you can’t have both installed.
But I don’t know yet if you have FC or not.
If you have it (FC 6.0.2 on), you must uninstall the Callibrated.
This plugin has been designed for people that have no FC.
rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com

[Greg Booth]

Hi Martin,

1. Calibrated{Q} XD Decode is a QuickTime Decode codec – it’s not meant for computers with any version of Final Cut Pro.

2. Calibrated{Q} MP4-EX Import is a QuickTime Import component – that CAN work with FCP6.0.6 or FCP7 to import XDCAM EX MP4 files directly into FCP and FC Studio applications. However it does not work at all with XDCAM Transfer (as XDCAM Transfer reads the XDCAM EX MP4 file wrapper natively)

3. If you have FCP 6.0.2 or greater then you should have the Apple XDCAM EX codec – if it’s not showing up with XDCAM Transfer then that means that your FCP install was not complete for some reason.

4. You can run XDCAM Transfer without codecs installed ( I believe there’s a check box to do that somewhere in the XDCAM Transfer Options)

Hope the above help.

Cheers,
Greg

Calibrated Software

[Ian Cook]

Hi Martin,

XDCAM Transfer does not provide codecs and will not work properly unless FCP is also installed. For the EX codecs you’ll need FCP 6.0.2 or higher. The Calibrated plugin is a QuickTime decoder for use when there is no FCP installation on the same system.

Best regards,

Ian

Ian Cook
Sony Broadcast and Professional Company

[Craig Seeman]

There’s some confusion here which Greg Booth explained.
Calibrated has several plugins. The one which allows MP4 direct import to FCP . . . works fine in FCP and creates no conflict and is what the original poster seems to have installed.

Firsthand info since I have that Calibrated plugin installed as well. It allows FCP and Quicktime based apps to handle the MP4 as if they had been wrapped to mov.

If XDCAM Transfer is not showing video when adding the media for re-wrap it does mean that FCP XDCAM EX codec is not being accessed and is likely an issue with the Final Cut Studio install.

[Martin Kleinert]

Thanks guys for all the replies.

So what I did now… I deleted the“CalibratedXDCodec.component”
from Library/Quicktime because i got FCP 6.0.6 installed on my Mac.

The “CalibratedMP4EXQ.component” I kept in this bin
and tried to Log and transfer directly from FCP.

I can listen to the audio of the clips but can’t see the video.
When I “transfer” the Clip into FCP it has audio but video is just a white frame.

Any ideas? The installation of FCP was fine without errors.
Thanks for your time. Cheers, Martin

[Martin Kleinert]

in general… the video of my mp4-clips should be fine. i can see and listen to it with the VLC player perfectly.

[Ian Cook]

Can you remove the Calibrated components completely, if only to test?

Are you running the Calibrated software in Demo mode? If so, that’s may be why you’re seeing white video with no audio. If not, it’s a codec resources conflict because you have the Apple codec and the plug-in codec trying to perform the same decoding.

[Greg Booth]

Hi Ian,

The ‘white frame’ from QuickTime is not from our Calibrated{Q} XD Decode or Calibrated{Q} MP4-EX Import – it’s a standard QuickTime procedure to display a white or black frame when a codec is not installed for a particular MOV file.

The ‘white’ frame issue is not because of any conflicts with our software – basically Martin (and correct me if I’m wrong) sought our software out because XDCAM Transfer and FCP 6.0.6 were not seeing his XDCAM EX MP4 files…..which makes wonder whether something is wrong with his FCP installation – since if he removes Calibrated{Q} XD Decode then XDCAM Transfer reports that no codecs are found – which should not be the case if you have FCP6.0.6 installed correctly.

Martin – Calibrated{Q} MP4-EX Import does not work with Log and Transfer in FCP or with XDCAM Transfer – rather it lets you import XDCAM EX MP4 files directly into FCP and work with them natively. So there would be no conflicts whatsoever when having Calibrated{Q} MP4-EX Import installed when using XDCAM Transfer.

Martin – In the /Library/QuickTime folder – there should be the AppleHDVCodec.component (or called something like that) – which gets installed with FCP. FCP 6.0.2 or greater version of this Apple codec supports XDCAM EX.

Cheers,
Greg

Calibrated Software