[Andy Mees]

Hi Eric

You need to choose the “Roles as Multitrack QuickTime Movie” export option and set it to use 8 mono channels and assign a valid Role to each of the channels. Do that and Content Browser Exporter will happily accept the XDCAM HD422 export and manage the rewrap to MXF. If you just need 4 channels then I’d be inclined to just duplicate those first 4 channels onto the second 4 channels … but if preferable you might just add a dummy “mute” audio clip to your edit with that audio assigned to a custom “Mute” role, and then patch that in the export dialog to those unwanted extra 4 tracks.

Hope it helps
Andy

[Andy Mees]

Hey Marcus

If you’ve found a case which Xto7 isn’t handling well then I suspect the developers will want to have a look.

From their website:
Please use Provide Feedback… under the application menu for bug reports, feature requests or support. If you need to email an XML file, please zip the file and send it to Xto7@AssistedEditing.com with a brief description of what happened.

Cheers
Andy

[Andy Mees]

Hi Tim

Yes, as long as I’m targeting an XDCAM format that’s compatible with native 24 bit audio (like IMX or HD422) then the whole export to XDCAM disc process went through without a hitch 🙂 Unfortunately not a single one of my stack of XDCAM camera’s or decks support either IMX or HD422. 🙁

Ho hum. Luckily this wasn’t a stuck between a rock and a hard place issue as I could just ask the guys to use FCP7 … or even just crash record the baseband output from an FCPX attached I/O box. I really just wanted to prove to myself that it could all be done directly from FCPX as is.

Thanks again
Andy

[Andy Mees]

Yep … it’s just all becoming rather convoluted!

The simplest solution is just to hit the spacebar and record the baseband output from my I/O box directly into the deck 😉

Color me just a little bit annoyed that FCPX wasn’t yet quite flexible enough for me to make it work the way I wanted too (ie file based). No worries, I nearly got there.

For what it’s worth, I tried exporting my sequence as XDCAM HD too but had exactly the same problem (it needs 4 channel, 16 bit, mono audio).

If I had a different XDCAM deck, one that supported IMX or HD422, both of which support files with a 24 bit audio configuration, then none of this would have been an issue.

I’ll live.

Anyway, just let me say thanks a lot to yourself and everyone else who spent some brain cycles thinking on this one for me … it’s great COW support as always and very much appreciated.

Cheers
Andy

[Andy Mees]

No go on the Compressor front there Tim, like the other 4 channel settings I tried, that one creates one single 4 channel audio stream … not multiple discrete single channel audio streams, which is unfortunately what XDCAM demands.

For experiments sake, I did just test an IMX export tho, and it worked a treat as long as I set up the export with 4x mono tracks. Seems the stumbling block for now re DV for possible XDCAM export is the 24-bit vs 16-bit audio discrepancy.

[Andy Mees]

Thanks Jeremy,

In this case a value added third party based MXF export solution is not what I’m looking for … at this point it’s more an exercise in trying to find a way to make FCP X work for me as is, after all I’m only trying to do what is essentially a relatively simple export to a DV Quicktime movie (the rewrap to MXF and subsequent transfer to XDCAM disc is all handled by Sony’s Content Browser app).

That said, I certainly appreciate the heads up. Much obliged.

Cheers
Andy

[Andy Mees]

Hey Tim

Thanks for taking the time, it’s much appreciated.

My playback deck is a PDW F70, which for XDCAM SD formats only supports playback of DVCAM, so IMX mastering was not an option in this case.

I did already try one direct to Compressor “4 channel” export settings option (I used the “Quadraphonic” setting) but that identified itself as such in the resulting file and so Content Browser Exporter still failed as it wasn’t getting the explicit 4 mono channel audio file it was demanding. I’ll give that 4 channel (L,R, C, Cs) option a try tho, its worth a shot …

Cheers
Andy

[Andy Mees]

Hi Mark

Thanks for that. That’s pretty much exactly what I’d tried … in the first attempt I just exported with additional tracks that were intentionally left blank (Fig 1) but those were ignored by the export process; in a second attempt I assigned the existing roles to the extra tracks (Fig 2) but it appears I convinced myself that that didn’t work either … I just tried it again now (at home) and it worked a treat. Darn it.

I’m guessing I threw myself off because the actual export to XDCAM still failed due to the 24 bit audio vs 16 bit audio issue … but still, my concern was that I wasn’t getting 4 channels despite setting them up.

Clearly my mistake, and apologies to all for the misdirection.

I may yet be able to bend this to my will! 🙂

Cheers
Andy

[Andy Mees]

Hi Fabrizio
You could consider just temporarily switching your Project Setting from 1080i to PAL SD (Anamorphic) … or duplicating your project first and then switching the duplicate … and then exporting direct to IMX. It might potentially be more convenient than an unwanted export import shuffle.
Hope it helps
Andy

[Andy Mees]

Hi Andy

I can’t say I’ve ever explicitly used Edius for standards conversion, but I do use it pretty much daily for editing, and routinely throw all manner of source footage at it including mixed frame rates … and at the end of the day it all passes the QC and does to air. That said, it doesn’t have any mysterious magical properties, and if I were needing to convert a full show then I’m pretty sure I’d use a Terranex or Alchemist box. But while you’re thinking about it, why not just grab the free Edius trial and try it out with a bit if your source footage? If you’re shooting 25p/50i then try conforming it to 24p/48i (you can select the preferred frame rate in the clip’s properties) and then drop that in your 30p/60i timeline … should look pretty good.

Cheers
Andy