Hello,
I'm in the process of purchasing a Canon XF305 Professional camcorder which uses MXF format files. I am using Apple Final Cut Pro X with Lion operating system. Is there a tool which can help me when ingesting with Final Cut Pro X rather than earlier versions of Final Cut Pro.
Thank you very much,
Thomas
Final Cut Pro X, Mac OS X (10.7)
Dear Thomas,
As far as I know, there is few programs which natively support MXF video converting or processing. I got my new Canon C300 several days ago, I looked around for a nice tool for my c300.
I tested one professional MXF Converter on Mac. The program seems nice. It natively supports my C300 camera and encodes MXF footages to Apple Prores which FCP X likes best. I found it in App Store. You can download it for a test. In addition, I saw the project about mxf column in a blog , it also seems to have a lot of solution, if you are interested, you can give it a try http://mts-to-aic-converter.com/mxf-column/
Hope this program helps. Happy Every Day.
Thanks, I will try.
Hi oliviacarol,
I'm very thanks for your help. product is now working fine in full mode i must say your converter is one of very many i have tried out in the past few months and i made the decision to purchase yours as the fast and efficient conversion rate far excedes any other on the market today, i am only baffled why none of the reviews dont rate it the number one as I do, congratulations and best wishes for your brilliant program.
yours sincerely
You connect the camera and open the camera import function. Select the camera and you will see the clips. You don't need a third party converter.
There is an astonishing amount of unnecessary converter software "out there"…and I guess there are a lot of people who buy it.
I have have a similar problem:
I am trying to work on a project remotely. It appears my ingested C300 clips are on our other mac in our office so are offline in FCP7. I have my laptop with me with the backup files on a drive with full structure but I can't work out how to import into XF Utility. XF Utility does not see them. i've tried transferring onto a CF card and reader but still not seen.
I tried your transcoding process (MXF to ProRes 422), it did work. Nothing is simpler than this. Thanks for sharing!
thank to share..
OP, you can try oliviacarlo's suggestion, this tool makes importing easier, you won't encounter other problems that you just need to transcode mpeg-2 codec MXF to prores codec, and then you can use in FCP X without rendering. I also use it to output DNxHD for AMC 6.
Hi Tom Wolsky,
I have tried to directly import the files to Final Cut Pro X, but it carsh, very bad! I have 20GB videos
Yeah, I heard many users directly imported the MXF files into FCPX, but I failed. I bought brorsoft mxf converter for mac to transcode my Canon .mxf to apple prores. With it, I can freely select ouput codec and set videos settings.
It seems to me that some of the people in this thread (perhaps most of them) and other threads on the same topic are actually people working for the company selling transcoder applications. I find that very sad.
You need a plugin to use MXF files with out transcodeing tham in Final Cut Pro 7 and X.
It's the same with Avid. Quicktime needs to go native MXF import and export. They have sat on this for too long at Apple.
Yes, they come free from Sony and Canon.
yesterday, I find an useful article mainly tacking mxf to fcp http://www.mxfconvertermac.net/mxf-to-fcp.htm
How much do they pay you to spam these boards with adverts?
How to import .mxf files to Apple Final Cut Pro X?
