Unwrapping a mxf wrapper.

farss wrote on 10/13/2005, 8:18 AM

So just how much mxf support is there in Vegas? I know it's far from all encompassing from my own tests managing to crash Vegas just trying but now this get serious.
Client is coming around tomorrow with a heap of stuff he needs clips out of and it's all wrapped up in a mxf wrapper. I was kind of hoping Vegas might pull this off but just in passing he says he knows there's at least 6 channels of audio in there so it don't look to good so far.
Assuming Vegas chokes on this anyone got any clues on how to unwrap this thing into something I might be able to handle?
Bob.

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ForumAdmin wrote on 10/13/2005, 9:14 AM

From Vegas 6.0c's readme:

"A full-resolution MXF reader for XDCAM has been added to allow you to use MXF files on the Vegas timeline. "

Other notes:

1)This is a reader only , no MXF write. To print the timeline back to the XDCAM disk you can use either a Decklink (SDI) or 1394 for DVCAM mode

2) Full resolution only (no proxy). Copy contents of XDCAM disc to local drive, add full resolution mxf files from the "clips" folder to the timeline, edit.

3) All flavors of XDCAM full resolution files are supported. All frame rates and aspects, all full rez compression types (Dv, IMX 30/40/50) can be intermixed on the same timeline. Essence marks show up as media markers. 2 channel audio only. No other MXF variants are supported, just those sourced on XDCAM cameras.

Hope this helps-

farss wrote on 10/13/2005, 1:55 PM

Thanks but I have a horrible feeling these are not XDCAM files. Best guess is these files have been written out of an Avid system. If that's the case I'm hoping to find something that'll let me open the wrapper and extract the contained components.
Bob.

ForumAdmin wrote on 10/13/2005, 2:57 PM

Is re-exporting from AVID as .avi and .wav files an option?

farss wrote on 10/13/2005, 6:13 PM

Thanks,
finally got the files and yes they are from 530 camera!
Installed the proxy viewer and the other widgets. proxies view just fine in the viewer. As expected cannot drop the proxies into Vegas, don't really want to anyway. It seems though that someone has pulled a swifty, the copies only contain the proxies. As these are IMX50 files just by the amount of data on the DVDs I know the full res files aren't there.
I guess it's a good way for cameramen to protect their work but if clients don't understand what's going on it can be a strain explaining it all to them.
Bob.