[Scott Hindman]

Yea I tried ImixMXF, but I foudn it wouldn’t hold the settings when convertign a batch of clips.
ie: I loaded a folder with 50 clips, set the output to prores 422 50fps, top quality, and it converted the first clip with this setting, then did the rest of the clips at the default setting of NTSC 29.97 fps.

Very annoying.

I have found the “Editready” software pretty good. BUT it has been crashing a bit, and only converting some clips “partially”. Something to do with interrupted background process. Very odd. I havent asked for help on that one yet.

It was also weird to me that when I played the converted file from Editready on my quicktime pro7, it showed identical audio channels. But when i imported it to FCP the channels were split and separate signals. I’m guessing there is some indicator in the file that tells quicktime how to pan the audio tracks. L&R or both MID.

It does still amaze me that no one has really offered the perfect solve for this. I do thin editready will be good once they fix this latest issue. I’m completely over dealing with the people from Pavtube. They have no idea. Even the fact you have to select “mix audio tracks” when you want to separate them. ridiculous.

Anyway I hope Editready or ImixMXF works for you.

[Scott Hindman]

yes so true.

thanks again for your help.

[Scott Hindman]

OK, now I must humbly eat my hat 😉

When I tried EditReady I thought that the audio tracks were mixed together, but as it turns out, that was just the pan setting on the player I was using.
Several players actually.

But when I imported it to FCP the tracks were two separate mono tracks just the same as the original MXF.

Perfect. Thanks so much for the advice.

Scott

[Scott Hindman]

Thanks…

I’ve just tried EditReady as you suggested… but it doesn’t keep the audio tracks separate either. It mixes them together.

So audio track 1 from the MXF file appears on both A1 & A2 of the converted file, and A2 from the MXF again appears on A1 & A2 on the converted file.

I’ve contacted their help desk but there are hardly any settings in this software so I’m not holding my breath.

It also cant convert to AIC, only prores and DNxHD. Which I could live with, but yea, not quite an answer yet.

[Scott Hindman]

Hi there,

An important note when using Pavtube MXF converter. It doesn’t deal with the audio channels well.
I cant create a stereo left and right signal, and if you have a different mic in each channel as many of us do… only one of the mics will end up in your converted video.

So if your original MXF has A1 and A2 on left and right, then the converted video will have A1 and A1 (duplicate) on left and right.

I’ve been back and forth with the Pavtube help desk, they have eventually said they cant fix it and have no plans to.
Their answer is iMixMXF, but this has problems too. There are only some selected formats which offer the “split channel’ option. Also when doing a batch convert it will not hold your settings and reverts to default after the first clip is done.

Today I tried AcrockMXFconverter for mac. Almost identical to Pavtube. Same audio issue.

So WARNING, if you use 2 separate audio channels on your camera, these converters are no help.