[Richard Emerson]

Thank-you for your Info, I have checked and re checked that I have the Correct Plug-Ins for Final Cut from Canons website. The best I have achieved still is 22Mbps and the Clips are Definitely with no doubt shot at 50Mbps….

You mention Proxy, If I understand correctly this is for Editing at a lower quality and corrected as it were later..

Do you have anymore pointers where I might get some help with my current problems please, I understand you are very busy and appreciate the input so far..

All the best Ritch…..

[Richard Emerson]

Thanks for reply I am watching the Link and I will hopefully manage to Find How To Achieve and keep the Data Rate, so far 22Mbps is the best I have achieved but it must be the 4:2:2 50Mbps for HD Broadcast…

I am fortunate thus far that Sony XDCAM has aided me with MXF transfer for DVD, but I really need to achieve the Broadcast Standards required.

I have the Necessary Canon Utility and the Driver Support for Final Cut Pro 7.0.3 but have to admit this process has been anything than straight forward..

[Richard Emerson]

Hi your post was a while back about the Canon Xf 305 and MXF Files, did you find a solution? I have about 120hrs of footage that I also can’t Log and Transfer, I copied all the Info off the CF cards onto external drives, I now know I should have used the Canon XF Utility to back up the cards…That doesn’t help where Im at now.

For me it’s important to be able to give the clips nos. so they correspond to all the different camera positions shooting the particular Numbered Horse going by, this is so we can match them all up witheach other for editing purposes.

Any pointers you can give me with Workflows etc can help me Immensely..

Thanks in Advance for your help..

[Richard Emerson]

I hope you solved the problem you posted!!!

I wish to ask you a question about Canon XF Utility, i HOPE YOU DON’T MIND?
We didn’t use it on our last shoots and copied over everything from CF cards to external drives so as to be able to re-use the CF cards as we film literally 100’s of Horses and their riders..

So I have a couple of External Drives with the entire cards copied to but am having trouble to get FCP to Log and Transfer the MXF Files..
I think this is because we didn’t use said XF Utility!!

My question is, next time we shoot we have 8 cameras each 1 captures the Horse/Rider at a particular stage on a course. We need to copy the entire Cards and also need to know if through XF Utility we can Name and NO. the clips so when we do a search for example, all the footage to that particular Horses no. shows up so we can Log it into Final Cut for editing.
When we were on Mini DV we would capture by finding each horse and it’s no. and position/Camera by the notes and time codes, this was lengthy but worked and we hoped the new system would be better a) because it’s for Broadcast b) so that the Files with the particular Horse/Rider no. would be able to be quickly found and then passed out to all the different editors…

Any Info to XF Utility and how I back up the cards would be great and if you know about the renumbering of the files, and also if all the footage we shot without the use of Disk Utility is going to be usable..?
Many Thanks In Advance for your help..

[Richard Emerson]

I have got to the bottom of the Problem RE: MXF into Final Cut..

Your work flow tutorial is great by the way…..

When we filmed on the shoot we didn’t have enough CF cards so we via a Card Reader Took all the Files and Info and copied the info on to external drives.. This needs to be done through the Canon Utility which allows renaming of clips etc, this is an Important stage and there lies the problem, we just copied the whole contents and then RE Formatted THE CARDS FOR re-use..

So now I have a big problem of having 100’s of clips copied from these cards but not through The Canon Utility, I hope I can find a solution to my existing footage..

Worse still we are about to shoot again on a different project which now we have Canon Utility but the most necessary part is to get the footage from all 8 Cameras to correspond to each other ie as it’s sports a Rider has the no. 106 so when the No.106 is searched for all the footage corresponding to that No. needs to show up so it can be ‘Log and Transferred’ into it’s unique FCP project, I just hope this is possible to do..

I hope you can indeed follow what it is Im trying to achieve here..!!

Thanks so far for the pointers…

[Richard Emerson]

Thankyou, I had watched the Tutorial before and it is very informative.

I admit to still being a little confused as to whether ( Remembering the end product are multiple different DVD’s ) Have I the only choice of ‘Log and Transfer’ or is converting to another Final Cut compatible format a choice, and if so would it have any benefit for Rendering and Exporting after wards my completed 20min projects.
I Imagine Size, Quality, and what I then compress it with for the DVD’s all factor into the equation that’s why it’s important I have the best all round solution.

Going From MiniDV to CF Card in the last 3 Shoots, Using FCE I suppose doesn’t help.
As I said, Thanks for your Help So Far…

[Richard Emerson]

Thankyou for the quick response, ans the Screen Shots.

I wanted to know that because they (MXF Clips) are destined to be added to the timeline and put alongside already imported assets of .movs movies with music also already self contained, and that as so many different projects are to be done which then in turn are destined to be burnt to DVD obviously with their individual edited MXF and .Movs ( mentioned above ) for export as individual projects…

What would be the best of all the ways for A) Quality B) Quickness for render.
So to sum up are you saying only Log and Transfer is the way forward for these many many projects or there is a better conversion format to work with within my Final Cut.. And once deited what should I be exporting them out as I imagine they will be then compressed for DVD.
I have asked alot of Info from you that I know!!!

I just want to adopt the most time saving and quality saving direction.

Before I was stuck with just the option of trying in FCE.

A whole different topic is what I should ultimately do as regards to the 3 desktops, as they are Xenon Intel Macs but cannot run FCP…They were fine when every thing was Mini DV, but literally in the last 3 Shoots we have adopted the Cf Card Filming/Capture so as to conform with Broadcast standards as well as the DVD Outlet. The Broadcasters also get the footage edited on Windows Based Editing Software…

Thanks for your time, and with the help..