MXF file icon

LarsHD wrote on 5/26/2009, 2:48 AM

In the Vegas files list in explorer all files have a nice appropriate little icon. But not the MXF file, it just has a standard anonymous Windows generic icon... Anyone?

Lars

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erikd wrote on 5/26/2009, 9:41 AM

Lars, just wanted to let you know that MXF files in Vegas explorer for me do have the correct icon. The one with the little orangy arrow pointing down on a grayish brackground.

Erik

ritsmer wrote on 5/27/2009, 12:40 AM

Lars probably you have an error in your Windows Registry not assigning the proper icon to that file type.

jabloomf1230 wrote on 5/27/2009, 6:41 PM

Well, I never noticed it before, because MXF files show up as thumbnails, with the settings that I use in the Vegas 9 Explorer. Since most systems do not, by default, have a media player that will "auto open" an MXF file (which is a wrapper, like MOV and AVI), there is no icon associated with the file type.

If you have the freeware VLC Media Player installed and you set that as the default reader for MXF files (It plays them fine, BTW, even the "dreaded" XDCAM HD 422 50 mbps flavor), you will get the little orange "traffic cone" icon associated with MXF files, but that icon just shows that VLC is the default program for reading these files.

Mikey QACTV7 wrote on 5/27/2009, 9:10 PM

Do a google for sonys xdcam viewer. I found it on sonys england website. This will let you see thumbnails of MXF files in windows. It will also play your MXF files. Best of all its free.
http://www.sony.co.uk/biz/view/ShowContent.action?site=biz_en_GB&contentId=1167924780439&sectiontype=BC+Tools+XDCAM
I found the link.

farss wrote on 5/27/2009, 11:01 PM

For all things XDCAM Sony have a dedicated "micro" site:

http://pro.sony.com/bbsc/ssr/micro-xdcam/

Bob.

LarsHD wrote on 5/28/2009, 6:18 AM

Thanks a lot. Now I got the icon for the MXF files and the luittle XDCAM player too which can be useful for quickly viewing the files outside Vegas.

Great! Thanks for your help!
Lars

Laurence wrote on 5/28/2009, 2:49 PM

I'm finding VLC does a pretty amazing job of playing back .mfx clips. Any reason to use the XDCAM player over VLC?

Edit:

OK, I've found a good reason to use the XDCAM player: that is that with VLC I can only play an XDCAM from start to finish. I can't shuttle around. With the XDCAM player I can shuttle around all I want. The preview resolution is degraded somewhat in the XDCAM player though. With VLC, you can see the .mfx video at full glorious resolution. With the XDCAM player you are watching some sort of lowered resolution version. Still handy though as long as you aren't previewing for final quality.

2nd Edit:

If you are in the XDCAM player and you go to Tools/Options and check the "use alternative renderer" tab, the player will use your GPU and give you much better video quality preview. This is very cool now.