The footage will AMA, though you'll want to go to Canon USA to get two things first: the latest AMA plugin for your OS (Mac or Windows) and the XF Utility which I've found to be very helpful to have. https://www.usa.canon.com/internet/portal/us/home/support/details/camcorders/professional/xf300?tab=drivers#Z7_MQH8HIC0L88RB0AMD0F1Q42K25
The Avid easily sees the XF footage with AMA, and you can then transcode or consolidate it, but you can also do a direct import. It comes in as native XDCam 50mbps. At least in Windows, the files are only 2GB, but once on the timeline they'll play smoothly. However, using the XF Utility, you can actually (virtually) stitch the individual mxf files that make up a single clip into one single file. This is especially useful if you are using the footage in a multi-cam scenario. The Utility also gives you an easy viewer in which to review the footage.
Footage from the camera doesn't look its best if it was shot in low-light, however I've found that Neat Video has helped make even quite low-light and grainy footage shot with an XF300 look very pretty.
One important watch-out-for: if you are saving the footage off to an external drive for editing later, be sure to save it INCLUDING the "Contents" level. The media files won't play without the Contents level. You can make a file that for example includes the event name, but import the entire file from the camera including the "Contents". Then, when importing the footage into the Avid from the folder, you can specify "mxf" as the file type.
Victor Seckeler
---In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, <selander@...> wrote :
Hi,
We shoot a lot with this camera. It's been a few years since I set it up
with the Avid, but my memory is that once we installed the Canon AMA
plug in, it 'just worked.' Very smooth and easy, we've never had issues
with it. We transcode, but unlike AVCHD, the AMA clips play very
smoothly and you could cut right with the AMA clips if you want if
you're just dealing with a few streams.
Tim Selander
Tokyo, Japan
We shoot a lot with this camera. It's been a few years since I set it up
with the Avid, but my memory is that once we installed the Canon AMA
plug in, it 'just worked.' Very smooth and easy, we've never had issues
with it. We transcode, but unlike AVCHD, the AMA clips play very
smoothly and you could cut right with the AMA clips if you want if
you're just dealing with a few streams.
Tim Selander
Tokyo, Japan
On 2017/01/12 2:34, David Dodson davaldod@... [Avid-L2] wrote:
> Has anyone any experience with material coming out the Canon XF300? I'm about to get some, and they tell me this camera only shoots MPEG2. Does AMA see this material? Any tips of info on handling this stuff? Warnings? Watch-out-for's?
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> Thanks,
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