[Andy Mees]

in Compressor’s Geometry controls set the Source Inset (Cropping) Crop to control to Europe Standard 1.66:1

[Andy Mees]

>I just recently download a quicktime plug-in from the apple site called Calibrated{Q} MXF Import 1.2 to support some of the formats.

Claudio ,

To be clear we’re not chasing the wrong demon here, the Calibrated{Q} MXF Import 1.2 component is absolutely fine for use with FCP and allows the raw camera MXFs to be used without any need for rewrapping … its the separate XD, IMX and DVCPro Decode components that are not allowed for use with FCP (as they will directly conflict with Apple’s own codec bundles).

So it sounds like you might have downloaded and installed more than just the MXF Import component …is that possible? If so, then its those additional components you need to delete/uninstall rather than the main MXF Import component. Delete those additional components and you should be fine (and you can even reinstall the main MXF Import component if you deleted that already). If you don’t delete those Decode components then reinstalling FCP won’t help you as those conflicting components will still be in the quicktime folder.

Take a look in the /Library/Quicktime folder and delete:
CalibratedIMXCodec.component
CalibratedXDCodec.component
CalibratedDVCProHDCodec.component

And in the /Applications folder delete the whole Calibrated folder
:
Now you can safely reinstall the MXF Import component from the demo installer. You should be fine after that.

Cheers
Andy

[Andy Mees]

> What do most professional use to edit on?

These days? Computers.

[Andy Mees]

Hey Peter
The general perception is certainly that FxPlugs render in hardware… but isn’t that actually dependent of the FxPlug’s coding? I believe they can be coded to render in either software (CPU) or hardware (GPU) and that where such a choice exists FCP will actually render on the CPU? ( I think that the preferred route is actually FCP specific )
Enquiring minds and all that.
Andy

[Andy Mees]

try trashing renders (tools render manager)
try disconnecting / unmounting any and all the media locations (captured and imported media, gfx, renders etc)
try opening the project from within a new clean user account on the new mac

[Andy Mees]

you just need stanadrd FW400 to FW400 cable (aka 6pin to 6pin) or a FW400 to FW800 (aka 6pin to 9pin)
you’ll also need Sony’s free XDCAM Transfer app to log, transfer and rewrap the MXF files as MOV’s, or you could buy and use a native MXF support component such as those sold by Calibrated Software or MXF4Mac in order to edit the MXF files natively (without rewrap)

[Andy Mees]

From the Manual (Page 284 Part IV Logging, Capturing, and Importing)

To break a long DV clip into subclips based on starts and stops:

1 Capture a long clip from a DV tape containing several starts and stops.

Note: If you’re capturing the contents of an entire DV tape, make sure that the “On timecode break” pop-up menu in the General tab of the User Preferences window is set to Make New Clip, to ensure that no timecode breaks are captured. For more information, see Volume IV, Chapter 23, “Choosing Settings and Preferences.”

2. Do one of the following:
Select the clip in the Browser.
Open the clip in the Viewer.

3 With the Viewer active, choose Mark > DV Start/Stop Detect.

Note: If you have any exceptionally long clips, you can break these up further by adding a few more markers manually. For more information, see Volume II, Chapter 4, “Using Markers.”

4 Switch the Browser to list view and locate the clip you were working on in the Viewer.

For more information, see “Choosing Views in the Browser” on page 61.

5 Click the disclosure triangle to view the clip’s markers.
If you want to give any of the markers a more descriptive name, simply click the marker in the Browser, then click the marker’s name to select it. You can now change the name.

6 Drag in the Browser to select all the markers.

7 Choose Modify > Make Subclip.

Note: If you gave your markers new names, your subclips will use them.

The subclips appear in addition to the original clip with the markers. You can rename the subclips, if you want. You can review the subclips, deleting any clips you might not need. If you do remove unused clips, you can use the Media Manager to remove your unused footage from disk, leaving the media for your remaining subclips alone. For more information, see Volume IV, Chapter 7, “Overview of the Media Manager.”

You can access the Manual at any time directly from FCP’ Help Menu … its always a good place to start looking for the answer as its fully indexed and serachable

[Andy Mees]

if this is a regular chore then you might want to take a look at Scene Detector
https://www.scene-detector.com/

[Andy Mees]

QTSync from https://www.qtsync.com/qtsync.php

You can add your audio track and then sync it on the fly. Ought to be dead easy.

[Andy Mees]

or you can purchase one of the new crop of MXF native support components (wish that Apple would provide this support in Quicktime, but these components are a worthwhile investment unless or until that happens)

mxf4mac and calibratedQ offer varying levels of support depending on the raw mxf format