XdcamEX quicktimes to avid help

[Shane Ross]

[nayim saati] “i ingested them on my mac using the xdcam transfer utility and have them as quicktimes on my external. i erased the cards and delivered it to them.”

You did WHAT? You erased the cards? Why did you do that? Those are you MASTER TAPES. Do you shoot on tape, capture, then erase the tapes? Never ever EVER erase the master footage. What you do is copy the ENTIRE file structure off of the cards onto a backup drive, THEN erase the cards. So that you have the footage as it was shot…and can use it on any NLE that supports that format. Now you are stuck….but not horribly so.

They will need to buy the XDCAM decoder from Calibrated…

ttp://www.calibratedsoftware.com/QXD.asp

Then they can import the footage and convert it to the Avid format. Yes, there will be quality loss as you are transcoding. This would have been avoided if you kept the card dumps. Let this be a lesson.

Shane

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[Nayim Saati]

big lesson i know……

[Mark Maness]

BTW, this also works the same with P2 footage…

Can you say, “BluRay is my friend.”?

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[Jason Lyons]

Shane,
Im curious – you mentioned a quality loss in transcoding, but AVID handles XDCAM natively. So, I guess in this situation the issue is that there is no known tool to revert or rewrap the file back to its native MXF wrapper? Im not getting how Calibrated{Q}’s decode helps here.

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[Craig Seeman]

Help is on the way although it may be time consuming.

Export from FCP back to MP4 (see video). Create new BPAV in Sony ClipBrowser. Use CliipBrowser’s export to MXF for NLEs.

Maybe it’s faster to buy CalibratedSoftware plugin but I’d that I’d mention the possibility of wrapping back to MP4.

Backing up Masters was something I learned in 1980 when I started working in the tape room doing dubs after being a messenger in a big post facility. Don’t people believe in learning the fundamentals.

[Jason Lyons]

Just a theory – If you can somehow achieve getting these files back to a MXF wrapper, AVID MC may just be able to see them as native MXF’s. I have only dealt with XDCAM-HD discs, so never having imported EX1/3 footage into AVID MC Im not sure how to point AVID to the files without “Importing” them and subsequently reducing quality through transcoding as Shane mentioned earlier.

I noticed a another thread and a link to software that may help in getting back to MXF assuming AVID will see them natively.

Full disclaimer – I have not tried this software or the workflow you are trying to achieve in going back to a AVID-friendly file… just trying to help.

https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/1046302

https://mxf4mac.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=96&Itemid=97

j

[Shane Ross]

[Jason Lyons] “you mentioned a quality loss in transcoding, but AVID handles XDCAM natively.”

Yes, I know this…but the issue is that the footage is no longer in the native XDCAM format. He imported it all as QT, and then ERASED the cards. The format is gone.

[Jason Lyons] “in this situation the issue is that there is no known tool to revert or rewrap the file back to its native MXF wrapper?”

Well, as others have stated, there might be hope.

[Jason Lyons] ” Im not getting how Calibrated{Q}’s decode helps here. “

All the OP has are the QT imported files. Files that cannot be viewed on any machine that DOESN’T have FCP installed…not without a decoder. Calibrated makes a decoder…so that will allow the Avid to view the XDCAM QT codec, and then transcode it to the Avid format.

Shane

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