[Hugh john Murray]

on second look and playing with your aep, I fear this is beyond my AE skillset. Really have no idea what to do. Was hoping for an easy plug-in – but thanks anyways!

[Hugh john Murray]

sweeeet. will try it, thanks. don’t suppose it makes a difference if there is a big plane moving through the sky or subject in foreground?

cheers

[Hugh john Murray]

Hello Mr. Camp –

Thank you for the script! Indeed, this works beautifully as a rendered QT, 23.976, animation, but when I bring it into FCP (sony xdcam ex 1080p24 vbr) and render it, it’s jump-arama. Maybe you’re not the guy to ask as perhaps it’s an issue from animation to xdcam ex…but if you have any suggestions, would love to hear them.

Many thanks,

Hugh John

[Hugh john Murray]

Hi Ben – I know your post is dated, but I, too, have moire problems and was planning to try your solution – but the link was dead. Any chance it can be revived?

Many thanks…

[Hugh john Murray]

Thanks for the info Greg. At the very least, I am going to buy the Decode software. The CGI guy has downloaded the demo. Since I’m coughing up the dough, is there a way for me to pay and…what do I get? A download link for functioning software (that I could forward to him) or a licence number that I can feed to him and he updates his demo? Basically, how do I pay online and get him the functional software?

Thanks

PS – I notice it’s cheaper to buy it bundled with the import software component – is there any recourse to get that deal if I buy a little the import a little later, within a few days, for example. Or is it all or nothing?

[Hugh john Murray]

Aye, I found that calibrated importer right after I posted. But…I think I’ll just export using current settings and live with that, unless my guy wants uncompressed.

Thanks for the info!

[Hugh john Murray]

Hi Clint – so my PC CGI guy, using the calibrated software decoder, can see and use my movs (test one of same clip – exported using current settings, no recompressing, self-contained), but not the MXF file (test 2) I exported using the SONY XDCAM option in FCP export.

Am I correct in assuming that the MXF file is better quality than the Mov export? Does exporting using quicktime current setting lose any quality? Before this worked (the calibrated software decoder) I was thinking I could export tiff image seq. for truly lossless sequences for him to work with – but the files are huge. Is the QT current settings lossy compared to MXF the way to go? And is there any reason why he shouldn’t recognize MXFs? (He’s using AE…)

Thanks again for all your help. Much appreciated.

Best

[Hugh john Murray]

Hi Greg –

This is off topic but it does have to do with your software decoder, as today my PC CGI guy tried the demo and he could read my XDCAM EX 108024p files from FCP (Mac) but just the MOVs, and not the MXFs that I exported from FCP using the SONY XDCAM option in export. I have a couple of questions, and maybe you may know the answer to the first.

I’m new to editing with SONY XDCAM footage and don’t fully understand the relationship between the raw files in the BPAV folders when I brought the footage in, and the MOVs that it transferred the footage to so that I could cut it in FCP. Are not those MOVs the files I cut with and will do the final output / master from? They don’t point back to the raw files, do they?

And so that brings me to the calibrated software – can he just read MOVs but not the MXF files? Is it better to edit with the MXFs as opposed to the Movs?

Thanks very much – and it looks like I’m buying the decoder…

Cheers

[Hugh john Murray]

Sheesh – I FTPed him the MXF and he says that PC doesn’t know what to do with it. Do you convert yours and what to? I guess we should try and use a lossless codec. And then when he returns the file back to me, should I try and covert back to XDCAM codec? Or just bring it in and render the file.

I didn’t think it be so complicated between PC and Mac – I thought we crossed that platform bridge long ago ;-/

[Hugh john Murray]

OK, I think I’ve done it. It asked me to set the audio to dual mono (don’t like the sounds of “mono”) in the user preferences, and there is a SONY XDCAM EX setting in FCP sequence settings, but it wouldn’t export because it said the settings did not match. So I changed it to SONY XDCAM HD and it worked – but the odd thing is when I plunked the test clip into the timeline, there was a green line rather at the top – meaning that either the audio or the picture is a realtime render? Usually the clips are two gray lines…just wondering if this happens to you, if all the clips should have green render lines.

Will it export clips or just sequences?

Many thanks for helping me figure this out…