Unfortunately I was not there when this was all done, and it looks like they did not keep the mxf files, they just plugged the card reader in and converted to quicktimes and ditched what was on the cards…which I would never have done.
How do I make it a ref file from QT pro? I see the option for a “hinted movie” or a “quicktime media link”, but I don’t think these are the same thing as a ref file. This what I tried to do from FCP, and it looked like it was working…at least I could actually see the picture rather then just digital noise…but unfortunately I realized (after I had done them all) that they freeze when you try to play them in fcp. The only way I was able to really make it work was to export a qt movie from QT Pro, but I want to keep them DVCPROHD, and isn’t that method just recompressing them and degrading them?
Thanks,
Eli