[Omar Ayoub]

This is an excerpt from a Youtube video with a similar problem..
https://f1.creativecow.net/file/5885/5885_test.mov.zip

I’m editing in 25fps.. The file format I exported to is .AVI (PAL DV) with “maximum render quality” checked.

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[Omar Ayoub]

Yes, I do have a problem with interlacing although it is not always evident. I can’t seem to find a better way to describe the dominant effect .. It sort of flickers slowly, blurring and then “un-blurring” with each frame.

[Omar Ayoub]

Alright, I’ll be sure to check that out.
Thank you Ryan, Ann, Tim, and Paul for all your help 🙂

[Omar Ayoub]

I’m going to create two sequences, a 720p and a 1080p and work on both.

My last question for the thread: I was looking for some video effects (old VHS, overexposed film, ..) that I can apply. Is there any resource for such effect plug-ins (that don’t look to generic) besides Red Giant, and can I find some which apply to Premiere instead of just After Effects?

[Omar Ayoub]

After an arduous process of sifting through all the .MXF workarounds I could find, I decided to save myself some time and uninstall Premiere Pro then re-install it / re-activate it. Surely enough, all the formerly missing sequence settings and format support is now there. Thank you all for your insistence that I should stick to .MXF.

On another note: I opened my .MXF files and they now work wonderfully. My sequence settings are (25fps, 1920×1080, Preview file-format: 1-frame only MPEG as opposed to one of the P2 DVCPROHD options).

I shot an interview in a wide-shot so that I can have the option of zooming in to a medium shot or a close-up shot later on in the editing phase (since I have enough HD quality to go for this and since I saw this done in a number of documentary films). My question is, do I make the sequence resolution smaller than the original video resolution (1080 for example), so that I can help make the close-ups lose as little resolution as possible when I enlarge the videos? (I also want to use a lot of low-quality mobile phone videos, so I need an all-encompassing sequence preset..)

[Omar Ayoub]

It’s true, I’ve read countless references that say that .MXF should play perfectly in Premiere Pro CS6.. I agree with Ann when she says that my version is missing a lot of features but I can’t do much about it at this point…
If I want to wrap my DNxHD in a Quicktime .mov format, what software do I need and how do I go about that?

[Omar Ayoub]

Hey Ryan,
Unfortunately nothing worked as far as importing my .MXF files into Premiere Pro (I have no idea why it isn’t), which is why I decided to convert the files. I’ve also been reading about DNxHD and I came across these threads on the Adobe forum:
https://forums.adobe.com/message/4156906 (2011)
https://forums.adobe.com/message/4997147 (2013), but says that “PP doesn’t support DNxHD in an MXF wrapper”. If, as per your recommendation, DNxHD is the best intermediate format for Windows and it works on Premiere Pro CS6, what is the best .MXF to DNxHD converter?

[Omar Ayoub]

Update: After I got to my personal laptop this morning and attempted to import the .MXF files (which I successfully exported via the Canon XF utility), it still gave the much-dreaded “The importer gave a generic error.” message. I then looked into converting the .MXFs to MPEG2 in order to preserve the quality as much as possible (As Ryan previously pointed out) and found this program. If anyone has experience with a better converter, I’m all ears.

[Omar Ayoub]

You are a genius. Thanks a million, Ann 🙂

[Omar Ayoub]

Thank you Ann. What I’m going to do is this: Since I retained the CF cards’ folder structure, I will re-copy them onto the CF card and then import them via the Canon XF Utility and re-export as single files, like you said. I hope it works.