Barry Green
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[Noah Kadner] “But I’d argue the task is not Apple’s to solve.”
Respectfully disagree. It’s Quicktime. Who else can modify quicktime but Apple?[Noah Kadner] “Why should they pay extra both in license and development to make it run on the the Windows platform too?”
They don’t have to pay a penny. Just have it tie into the free DVCPRO-HD codec that’s already installed on a PC whenever you install the free P2 Viewer. It’s already there in the OS. For example, if you install P2 Viewer, you can then play DVCPRO-HD MXF files in Windows Media Player, because the codec is registered with the OS. So surely Apple could just set up a pointer to point to the codec that’s already installed on the system. No royalties, no coding, no hassle.
And only Apple can do that. Nobody else can modify QuickTime.
[Noah Kadner] “While MS is apparently not nearly as interested in enabling the editing DVCPROHD on the Windows platform and has thus left it up to NLE makers to support.”
But MS doesn’t make the NLE’s, so how would it be MS’s problem to support NLE’s? I mean, let’s put it in perspective: MS’s file playback utility (Windows Media Player) DOES use the free DVCPRO-HD codec from Panasonic. So now it’s Apple’s job to make their file playback utility (QuickTime Player) use the same codec to allow playback of the content. Panasonic has delivered a free playback codec. It’s up to QuickTime to use it. How could it possibly be any other way?
Seems fairly open-and-shut…
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It’s entirely Apple’s problem. They make and distribute Quicktime, and for some reason they’ve decided to not offer that codec on the Windows version. It makes little sense to me, especially since there’s a free Windows codec already there waiting to be tapped into (if you’ve installed the free P2 Viewer). But Apple has to make it happen; so far they haven’t.
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Panasonic doesn’t make Quicktime, Apple does. Apple has the DVCPRO-HD codec installed on the Mac version of Quicktime, but not on the PC version.
Panasonic does distribute the codec freely if you install the P2 Viewer; programs like CineForm and Windows Media Player use it to play back DVCPRO-HD MXF files. But Apple doesn’t use it.
So it’s Apple’s problem to solve, they have to update Quicktime to support those files on the PC.
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Another option may be to get Serious Magic’s DVCPRO-HD Decoder or RayLight. Download the trial versions and see if AXIO can work with the converted files. If so it should make your workflow tremendously easier.
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[i][Eric Steinberg] “”You cannot copy data from the hard disk drive to a P2 card.””
Not true, I do it all the time on the PC.
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[Gerret] “My only surprise was that the auto iris seems to underexpose significantly.”
That’s adjustable in the menus, look for A.Iris Level in the Scene File menu. It’s biased towards underexposure in the scene files that default to the Cine-Like gammas, but you can change that. Just be sure to protect your highlights, as overexposure in the cinegamma modes is not pretty.—————–
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Yes, Seth Melnick has done so, and I actually have a test film print sitting here that I haven’t screened yet. Seth’s report was quite glowing. He wrote up on a few of the other forums, sometimes using the user nick “smelni”.
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[Arniepix] “I was looking for software to read an MXF file that’s not on a P2 card.”
They will. All the utilities will work from a hard disk or a card. You will need to have the proper directory structure, but you certainly don’t need a card to do it.
If you don’t have the proper directory structure but you do have at least the video and audio MXF files, you can import those into Avid or EDIUS and export whatever format you need.
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[Arniepix] “After searching here & on google, it looks like there’s no program on the Mac that will read .mxf files and let us export them to QT.”
FCP 5.0.4 or later will, and Imagine Software’s P2 Log will.
On Windows there is one that does exactly what you want, Serious Magic’s new DVCPRO-HD decoder will read MXF files and output FCP-compatible QT movies.
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As a backup plan, consider P2 Log from Imagine Software, I’ve had it import clips when FCP refused to so it may be able to do things for you that will solve your struggle. I don’t know what’s causing it, I’m sure the FCP Experts here can walk you through it, but as a backup plan P2 Log might be able to do it too.
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