I feel your pain. We deal with this sort of thing every day.
On 10/21/11, Steve Hullfish <steve4lists@veralith.com> wrote:
> 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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