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How to ingest Canon MXF files into FCP 7

All afternoon I've been trying to figure out how to get Final Cut Pro 7 to recognize .mxf files generated by a Canon FS-CV hard drive, without much luck. This device has 3 options of format: .m2t, .mxf and Quicktime. I've found that the Quicktime files are not openable by Quicktime Pro 7.7 and gives me the bewildering error


"An invalid public movie atom was found in the movie."


Okay, so that's not working, let's try Plan B. Since I have a P2 camera, .mxf is a familiar sight so I tried that one. L&T doesn't recognize anything about it, so that's a no-go. The only reliable workflow I've found so far is to transcode the .m2t files to ProRes using Mpeg Streamclip. Okay, that works, but is that the only one of these that'll work with FCP? Quicktime format seemed like a no-brainer. Why won't it open and/or play? I've Googled and Googled and have found plenty of people asking this question but no useful answers so far. And why doesn't FCP Log & Transfer recognize these .mxf files? If Canon has a special plugin for this, I haven't been able to find it through the byzantine maze they call a web site.


Any suggestions are welcomed.

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Posted on Sep 19, 2011 2:40 PM

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Sep 19, 2011 3:38 PM in response to Brie-Eating Surrender Monkey

You're searching for the wrong device. It's a recorder made by Focus Enhancements, not Canon. Try


http://www.focusinfo.com/solutions/fs-cv.asp


The thing records HDV so see what happens when you try to use those conventional HDV presets.


Native MXF HDV Support

With the FS-CV, you can record native MXF HDV 720p 30 and 1080i 50/60 clips and import them into Avid Xpress Pro, Avid Media Composer, or Avid NewsCutter for editing.

User uploaded file

Native QuickTime HDV Support

With the FS-CV, you can record 1080i 50/60/25f/24f/30f or 720p 30 clips as native QuickTime HDV. The FS-CV extracts and decodes the audio from the incoming HDV stream, combines it with the video stream, and wraps it as a QuickTime HDV file. When recording is complete, your QuickTime HDV file can be imported directly into Final Cut Pro—no capture or conversion is required.


If youa re talking about the FS-CV Pro, try this:


http://www.focusinfo.com/fscfpro.asp


Native QuickTime HDV and MXF HDV Support

With the FS-CF Pro, you can record 1080 50i/60i or 720p 30 clips as native QuickTime HDV. The FS-CF Pro extracts and decodes the audio from the incoming HDV stream, combines it with video stream, and wraps is as a QuickTime HDV file. When recording is complete, your QuickTime HDV file can be imported directly into Final Cut Pro - no capture or conversion is required.

Industry Standard File Format Support

The Focus FS-CF Pro brings the most popular DTE file formats to solid state recording. When used with 25Mb/s HDV cameras. The FS-CF Pro supports QuickTime 1080i50/60 and 720p25/30 recording for Final Cut Pro use, MXF HDV support for Avid, and M2T 720p/1080i recording for use in a number of different applications from Adobe, Avid and Grass Valley (Canopus).



Recording Modes

HDV Recording Modes

.m2t 720p 24/25/30/50/60

.m2t 1080i 50/60/24f/25f/30f

QuickTime 1080 50i/60i/24f/25f/30f

QuickTime 720p 30

MXF 1080i 50/60

MXF 720p 30

DV Recording Modes

AVI Type 1

AVI Type 2

QuickTime

Canopus AVI

Matrox AVI

RawDV

MXF




bobgiesan

Sep 19, 2011 4:07 PM in response to David Bogie Chq-1

I've read these specs in the manual. Unfortunately, there's a gulf between what the literature says it will do and what it actually seems to do. The QT files generated by this thing are not recognized by Quicktime 7.7. I get the error referenced in the original post. And the .mxf files are not recognized by Log & Transfer. If Focus has a plugin for this, I can't find it.


In short, I know what the literature says it's supposed to do. It just isn't doing it. I have an email in to the folks at Focus. Perhaps someone will give me an answer soon. When they do, I'll post it here.


Thanks for your help.

Sep 20, 2011 2:04 PM in response to Brie-Eating Surrender Monkey

Here is the super-helpful response from the support dept. at Focus Enhancements.


-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --


We have found that there is an issue with the latest version of the QuickTime player. The only working solution we have found is to downgrade your QuickTime player. You may need to contact Apple's customer support for downgrading your QuickTime player.


-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --


I nuked my bookmark for the Focus Enhancements site. It will never again be needed. I'll just use the proven work-around (transcoding the .m2t files using MPEG Streamclip) until the device becomes a doorstop.


Thank you for trying to help.

Sep 20, 2011 2:32 PM in response to Brie-Eating Surrender Monkey

Bummer. But that's not a bad thing, reverting to an earlier version of QT. The problem is they haven't included any specifications for OS verison, QT version and QT Player version. We saw a ton of horrible posts when the last rev of QT (Was it QTX?) overwrote al of our perfectly fine versions QT. I dont' remember the details, ti was a while ago, but reverting wasn't that bvig a deal.


However, QT Player is just a player. QT Pro, that caem with and wa activated with your FCS3 suite, shoudl work.


bogiesan

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