Saeed taji Farouky
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Yeah, I friend of mine finally found a 3rd party software, too. Calibrated, for around $100, wrapped all the XF files in movs so I can now edit with them normally. Thank god, it was starting to drive me crazy. I still can’t for the life of me understand why Canon would design a workflow so impractical…
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Hi Digital Antics: No responses yet unfortunately. There seems to be a general black hole in terms of knowledge about this camera on forums. A lot of guessing about how the card structure works. I couldn’t find any way of re-building the structure, so it looks like the only other options is to go through Avid (which reads XF files natively) Easier said than done for someone who uses FCP.
I’m pretty disappointed with the camera in general. I’m not a huge fan of the image, don’t like the electronic lens mechanism and it’s inconceivable to me that someone would design a camera with footage that, once you remove it from the card you shot it on, is inaccessible. This is a total waste of time in terms of workflow, and for what? A new codec that seems almost exactly the same as Sony’s XDCAM? I don’t get it.
On closer inspection, the sound issue with transcoding through XDCAM is worse than out of synch, the sound file is completely corrupt, simply because it’s not an XDCAM codec (although it looks like one, acts like one, sounds like one, etc.)
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If I’ve backed up my CF cards to an external drive, rather than transcoding them directly through FCP, does anyone know how to recreate the original card structure so the log & transfer window will recognise it?
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Hi, you guys seem to know what you’re doing with this camera, so maybe you could help. I’ve been using the 305 for a few days now, and very impressed with the image quality (although I do wish I could get a shallower dept of field, it seems like everything’s always in focus…)
But I’m having trouble transferring the files to quicktimes. I used XDCAM transfer, but all the quicktimes have sound out of synch, and the sound cuts off about 3/4ths of the way through. When I just play the clip in XDCAM transfer, sound is fine, so it’s definitely somewhere in the transfer to quicktime. Is there something obvious I’m doing wrong?
I’m on a macbook pro, 13inch, 2.26ghz dual core, OSX 10.6.5