Chris Walsh
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Easiest and fastest thing would be to find someone with a Windows PC and convert to Quicktime, MP4, or MPEG2 there using MPEG streamclip. I’ve come across many different DivX files that I could never get converted on my macs, so ended up converting on a PC and copying across.
Depending on how large the files are you may want to try a few of the online conversion sites if there’s no PC available.
Chris Walsh
http://www.musicfog.com
Silver Spring, MD
Premiere Pro CC, FC7 & AVID
Former Windows diehard and edit*or -
This is a problem that has been plaguing me off and on for the last six months, all on projects consolidated via Project Manager.
It has something to do with clip spanning and how the clips were originally imported (or how PPro names the imports).
All my footage is C500 MXF interview footage, usually spanning a couple of separate, sequentially named files (e.g. TP04501, 4502, 4503) which may appear in the timeline only as the first file number.
When project manager consolidates and copies, it only copies the first of the spanned files, so when I reopen the project I get danger stripes in many sections (because the media isn’t there). My low-fi solution is to consolidate, then manually copy the full MXF folder, delete the consolidated mxf files, open and re-link. It is far from elegant, but achieves what I need, a stripped down archive of only the necessary elements for archive. It is a huge pain in the neck though.
Chris Walsh
http://www.musicfog.com
Silver Spring, MD
Premiere Pro CC, FC7 & AVID
Former Windows diehard and edit*or -
I had the same problem recently (fortunately just an Arabic lower third). I tried installing different fonts to no avail. Text was reversed, some characters missing etc. Photoshop was no better than Premiere.
My solution, which would be too complicated for a whole captioning job, was to import text in MS word, copy and paste into MS Powerpoint, then copy from PPT into photoshop as a vector object.
Once it was a vector object I no longer had to worry about how the text characters were misinterpreted and could size and place it wherever I wanted.
Chris Walsh
http://www.musicfog.com
Silver Spring, MD
Premiere Pro CC, FC7 & AVID
Former Windows diehard and edit*or -
Workflow error on my part, sequences need to match the file codec exactly. Once I created sequences from the clip they played fine, and I could duplicate and change sequence settings as need.
Chris Walsh
http://www.musicfog.com
Silver Spring, MD
Premiere Pro CC, FC7 & AVID
Former Windows diehard and edit*or -
Thanks Ian. Both PPro CC and Adobe Media Encoder handled the files very nicely.
I am stunned that Sony does not provide a tool to convert/export this footage (other than a link to $360 plugin for their $20 “content browser). This is supposed to be their new codec (or partnered codec).
At least just say, “Our newest camera can shoot in a codec that can only be used by the most current version of editing software.”
So I’m going to say it. As of December 2013, if you shoot XAVC, you risk spending a lot of time and some money being able to use the footage. FCPX and Adobe CC can handle it, perhaps the most recent Avid update, but that’s it. So legacy FC and prior CS users should shoot something else, anything else. Or make sure the camera is set to MPEG2.
Sony just moved to the last place in my camera spec list. GoPro footage is easier to deal with.
Now I know what the F in F-55 stands for. They did leave out the Y though.Chris Walsh
http://www.musicfog.com
Silver Spring, MD
Final Cut & AVID MC5
Former Windows User and edit* lover -
The footage was shot with the F55 and is XAVC codec.
So I think I’m looking for a specialized conversion utility.
Chris Walsh
http://www.musicfog.com
Silver Spring, MD
Final Cut & AVID MC5
Former Windows User and edit* lover -
Thanks – I think there’s something wrong with the core files, directory, or xml.
Media Encoder 5.5 couldn’t see them, Media Encoder 6 could see them, but crashed on encode.
Will try to recopy source directories later and see if the problem lies there.
Chris Walsh
http://www.musicfog.com
Silver Spring, MD
Final Cut & AVID MC5
Former Windows User and edit* lover -
Have you looked at NewBlueFX Flash Remover? There’s a free trial, and it might work to reduce the flicker/shift you’ve got in the current footage.
https://newbluefx.com/product/flash-remover-pro#core_features
Chris Walsh
http://www.musicfog.com
Silver Spring, MD
Final Cut & AVID MC5
Former Windows User and edit* lover -
It better be stackable, since I’ll need room for my hard drive chassis, my thunderbolt to pci chassis, and who knows what else.
Maybe it will all fit inside my old Mac Pro tower case, once I clean it out.
Chris Walsh
http://www.musicfog.com
Silver Spring, MD
Final Cut & AVID MC5
Former Windows User and edit* lover -
Repaired permissions on my boot drive using Disk Utility, restarted, and now the same project exports without a hiccup.
Chris Walsh
http://www.musicfog.com
Silver Spring, MD
Final Cut & AVID MC5
Former Windows User and edit* lover