Re: [Avid-L2] Anybody know what camera generates this crap?

I AMA'd in Avid. I probably could have Log and Transferred in FCP, but since I didn't know that even FCP needed the Canon drivers, Log And Transfer didn't work when I first tried it. I was able to spin down all of the folders (doing it from bottom to top is the key to efficiency), then I could just hit command-A to import all of the files, and it ignored the folders.

It's a real pain when you receive things like this from a vendor that doesn't tell you what the heck shot it. You have to KNOW what camera shot it so you can download the write AMA and FCP drivers to see the crap. But if you don't know what the camera is, you're running completely blind. I've seen the structures of P2 and XDCAM folders, so I'd know those just by looking at them, but it's like the fricking wild west with these camera manufacturers.

Steve Hullfish
contributor: www.provideocoalition.com
author: "The Art and Technique of Digital Color Correction"

On Oct 21, 2011, at 5:02 PM, Eric Foster wrote:

> You should be able to ama the mxf files shouldn't you or use the
> transfer program in fcp to use the mxf files? Maybe?
>
> On 10/21/11, Dom Q. Silverio <domqsilverio@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I think that is from the Canon XF series cam. MPEG-2 @ 50 Mb/s.
> > AMA plugin here -
> > http://avid.custkb.com/avid/app/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=394971
> >
> >
> >
> > On 10/21/2011 4:31 PM, Steve Hullfish wrote:
> >> Client has no clue what shot this.
> >>
> >> They sent me a hard drive with about a terrabyte of a multicamera "HD"
> >> shoot.
> >>
> >> For each day of the shoot, there are about 20 folders, labeled
> >> cryptically: AA0001, AA0002, etc.
> >>
> >> Inside each folder are four files: AA0001.CIF, AA0001.XML, AA0001.MXF, and
> >> AA0001.SIF.
> >> So a dot CIF, a dot XML, a dot MXF and a dot SIF file.
> >>
> >> Anybody know the workflow for this? Avid AMA doesn't recognize it. FCP
> >> doesn't recognize it. I tried Log and Transfer at various folder levels.
> >>
> >> There are also a bunch of files marker INDEX.MIF, but there's aren't as
> >> many of those files as there are folders.
> >>
> >> This isn't from a Lego camera or a Barbie camera is it? :-)
> >>
> >> Steve Hullfish
> >> contributor: www.provideocoalition.com
> >> author: "The Art and Technique of Digital Color Correction"
> >>
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> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
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