Andy Mees
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Hey Dan
Maybe try something like this :
https://www.videotoolshed.com/product/57/tc-to-mp3
or
https://www.videotoolshed.com/product/59/maketranscriberfilesCheers
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Hey Thierry
You say “exact same issue” … can you confirm then that you are trying to import Canon XF305 (or similar) MXF media using Sony XDCAM Transfer software? If so then that is likely the issue. Sony’s software is wrapping and tagging the media according to properties of Sony XDCAM HD clip format, not Canon’s version. Try using Canon’s own tools (XF Utility) instead … or maybe you can try Convergent Design’s FileConverter?
Cheers
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Nice find Michael, thanks for sharing.
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>I was surprised to learn that Sony F3 MXF files are not natively supported by Davinci Resolve – am I mistaken?
No, I believe that is correct, you’ll need to rewrap the files as QT … this is not a transcode of the image data, you’re just changing the wrapper. The standalone application XDCAM Transfer and its successors (XDCAM Browser and Content Browser) can do this for you.
>A couple years ago there was a stand alone program called XDCAM Transfer that enabled encoding to another codec (ProRes) , but I haven’t been able to find it… does this still exist?
Yes, it still exists. You can download it from one of Sony’s professional support pages, here’s one:
https://support.sonybiz.ca/esupport>It seems like the only way to transcode the to ProRes is to use Final Cut Pro with the XDCAM plugin or Adobe Premiere?
If you want to transcode then yes, you can do this in FCP or Premiere or a transcoding app, but there is no need to do so. Just rewrap.
Hope it helps
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Hey Tim
You note that its only “some” live devices that are a problem … do you happen to know which if any live devices might not be a problem? I ask because I just ran into this issue myself last week … we’d stuck a copy of FCP X on a laptop here (as a cheap and cheerful backup edit solution) but when the guys tried to do a quick capture from a live DV input we hit the same problem described above. Without knowing a lot about built-in DV capture support in FCP X (and to be fair, not a whole heck of a lot about much else in FCP X either) I just concluded that it doesn’t work without deck control. I had the guys capture into iMovie instead, which worked just fine and afterwards let them bring the capture events into FCPX pretty simply too via iMovie project import … but I’m wondering now if there’s another (DV bridge) solution I might have had hanging around and that might have worked?
Thanks in advance
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Ah well Rafa .. just because it exists doesn’t mean its as good as the sum of its parts, I’m still very partial to XDCAM Transfer myself, but I thought it was worth throwing into the mix. 🙂
Cheers
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The latest version of the toolset is called Content Browser … you can check it out here: https://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/contentbrowser
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Just changed the name to get rid of the annoying apostrophe in the link
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/59082689/andysplugins.zip -
A quick Google search just turned up multiple download links for me, but to make life simpler …
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/59082689/andy‘s%20plugins.zipCheers
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