[Laura Woodlondon]

Google “TransMXF” and there’re some MXFconverters shows up. But where to find your MXF? they’re stored in Video under Contents of P2. you may need to manually import them one by one. And only MXF in completed folder can be imported to MXF converters.
hope it helps.

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[Laura Woodlondon]

Yep, Shane is right. Prores is FCP’s natve format, and requires no rendering when importing to FCP 7.
Actually, there’re so many video converters to access pro res output.

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Laura Wood

[Laura Woodlondon]

I’m sorry to let u know there’s no possiblity of no lossing any quality if re-encoding. Since the frame rate has neen changed from 29.97 to 25, the quality must be affected.

And as for how to convert it. I googled and found a forum which mainly discussed about NTSC and PAL. hope it helps.
https://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google%20Mobile/thread?tid=57e429f4ce450e2b&hl=en

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Laura Wood

[Laura Woodlondon]

For low price to get a P2 converter, maybe u need APP especially designed for MXF files. Google transmxf to see if there’s one to meet your need.

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[Laura Woodlondon]

but FCP X doesn’t have “log and capture” option now, how can MXF from P2 or Canon XF imported to it? I feel that “log and transfer” support import avchd files. Am i wrong?

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Laura Wood

[Laura Woodlondon]

between NTSC & PAL, the main differences is the frame rate, NTSC with 29.97 fps, and PAL with 25. it’s very easy, using third party software with NTSC (*vob) and PAL (*vob) output, you can get the both formats

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Laura Wood

[Laura Woodlondon]

Actually， u can convert to AIC(*mov), which can be recognized by FCP, still without rendering, just as ProRes to FCP 6 or above.

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[Laura Woodlondon]

As for your 3:2 pulldown conversion. Here’s detailed info:

Film runs at a rate of 24 frames per second, and video that adheres to the NTSC television standard runs at 30 frames a second. When film is converted to NTSC video, the frame rates need to be matched in order for the film-to-video conversion to take place. This process of matching the film frame rate to the video frame rate is called “3:2 pulldown.”

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Laura Wood

[Laura Woodlondon]

FCP can easily recognize your files with a whole structure by “log and transfer”. but if the AVCHD files isn’t in a whole folder, u can use a MTS converter with prores output.

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Laura Wood

[Laura Woodlondon]

converting MP4 to Apple ProRes with a third party software.
i saw trial version of some software can suppport using 6-7 times for free. and also it has no limit to the length of the video itself.

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