This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] XDCAM EX codec for .mov

Saturday, June 4, 2016

Re: [Avid-L2] XDCAM EX codec for .mov

Thank you to all of you for your help but I'm still stuck.

Dave, I tried installing the Sony AMA. It didn't allow me to export XDCAM EX 35. or any flavor of XDCAM.

Greg, I tried using Adobe Media Encoder, it doesn't have the XDCAM EX codec either unfortunately on the PC side. As all the codecs are usually shared I didn't expect it to be in Premiere Pro either, I tried to export it via Premiere Pro and the codec was not there either.

Rob, I did download the demo version to test the Calibrated Software MPEG2-X to create the XDCAM EX codec .mov file. I can see and successfully export a QuickTime .mov file with the Cs codecs but using the proprietary codec from Calibrated is it actually the XDCAM EX codec and will it work the same? I unfortunately don't have a way to test the files via the delivery encoder until Monday when the engineers are back and that is my deadline to have this project file delivered.

I've scoured several more hours across the web and reading threads. I found an old thread from 2008 about installing the SxS device driver first, then the SxS UDF driver second. Then after both are installed installing the i.link fam driver for optical XDCAM products. I tried that, and it does give me the option to create an XDCAM EX project in Premiere and Avid but not to export an .mov with the XDCAM EX codec.

If anyone has any suggestions I would greatly appreciate it. 48 hours into reading old threads and trying things is starting to feel like a cross between superstitions and blind luck at the moment.

I'm really trying to not go by a mac and install Final Cut X just so I can export the deliver file as a .mov with the XDCAM EX codec. ugh....

Thank you all for help in advance I greatly appreciate it.

Eric

On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 11:11 AM, Steve Garman <Steve@garman.com> wrote:

You can dial in these exact parameters in Adobe Media encoder.

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Subject: [Avid-L2] XDCAM EX codec for .mov

This is a new one for me and after reading and researching for hours I'm at a blank.
The format I need to deliver our show in is XDCAM EX codec in a quicktime .mov
I'm on a PC running MC 6.5.2

I tried sending the DVCPRO codec, (it looks aweful btw), an H264 as well as an OP1A.mxf. It seems their encoder plays it back jittery so the only format I can deliver in is a XDCAM EX .mov file.

With that said, I searched high and low yesterday to no avail. I read old threads on the L back to 2006.

I tried the demo version of Calibrated XD Decode and installed it but I couldn't figure out how to get Avid to see the codecs so it would export the .mov with the XDCAM EX wrapper on it.

The specs I need to deliver are:
XDCAM EX Codec
quicktime .mov
35 MB/s VBR
1920x1080
upper field first
29.97 fps
2 Ch audio
16 Bit
48 KHz
Linear PCM audio codec

This shouldn't be this hard but I've hit the wall. If anyone has any suggestions I am fully open to them and would appreciate the vast knowledge here on the L to point me in the right direction.

Thank you many times in advance and I'm even open to an old school Zelin chastising if it can make this work haha.

Thanks,

Eric

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Posted by: Eric Foster <jagermeister@gmail.com>

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