Your video file will definitely be an Intra codec in 10 bit 4:2:2.

For Intra Codec you definitely need Video Pro X with possibly an additional Intra Codec Pack for around €60.

The safest thing to test would be to provide a short, 15-second video file here for uploading via Google Drive or similar providers.

But not via the forum's upload function, as this converts everything to X264.

There are users in this forum who also have Magix Vegas.

It would then be possible for these users to test your demo file with ProX or Vegas and provide you with information about the extent to which your material can be imported and processed.

Thanks to both answers. It was enough to do timely further research. Looks like Video Pro X is limited. I need both XAVC-I and XAVC-L. Vegas lists those as supported as a kind of afterthought added to the end of the specs. I guess Sony isn't too popular. Catalyst Edit, which I never bought, also of course supports them since its from Sony. Choice I must now make. Also Avid provides support, but I only have the Avid audio suite of tools. No video and a bit pricey.

@Arlene-Allen

Hi Arlene.

It's not that the wrappers are an afterthought but each has to be bought under licence as they belong to the company that produces them and they charge for its use. Each additional proprietary wrapper belongs to the company that produced it and they charge an amount for each licence.

It is up to each developer to decide which they think will be used most and attractive to the buyer.

It's one of the reasons for the cost of the more expensive video editors as they have more import and export options. It is also the reason a proprietary video editor is free to the customer of the camera and can only normally use the files their own cameras produce. The higher the quality of the files produced often requires a similarly high specified machine for them to work on as each frame can contain a lot of data.

Ray.

@Arlene-Allen

Hi

. . . . Looks like Video Pro X is limited. I need both XAVC-I and XAVC-L.  . . .

The only difference between these 2 formats and AVC-Intra is the frame rate, bitrate and in the case of XAVC-L it is also Long GOP.

None of these should limit Video Pro X with the AVC-Intra codec installed.

As @Marc-Goder has suggested please provide a couple of short samples of both formats 15 - 30 secs long should be enough - for testing.

John EB
Forum Moderator

I'm using a Canon XF200 video cam. It's native format is MXF on CF memory sticks. One of the settings is to record MP4 on a micro SD card. I recently shot some video and forgot to set the MP4 option. Now I have to convert the MXF files to a format MEP17 can use. I'm using VLC Media Player to convert to MP4. The problem is I don't know which options to set on the conversion. I'm not going to distribute the produced files for end users, I want to edit them with MEP. Is there some advice as to which options to set? I'll have to go into VLC to list those options if it will help.

I'm sure this isn't the place to ask but have to start somewhere.

Jim

@emptech

I've only had a quick look at VLC for transcoding; most of us would use Handbrake or AVIDemux as they offer a bit more control over the process. The first step is to get the details of your MXFs; MediaInfo is great for this. If you could go to the Text view, then copy the readout and paste here we can advise further.

I did find an example MXF on the interweb here (the first one, 66mb) and I can open it in MMS 2024, but I guess yours are slightly different. AVIDemux won't open that MXF so I have used Handbrake, which works OK. I converted that 3 minute file to MP4 (H264) and AAC in 20 seconds.

@emptech

Hi

. . . . I'm sure this isn't the place to ask but have to start somewhere . . . .

Yes and no.

You are in the correct forum, however have hijacked another users' topic which relates to Sony cameras. Please do not hijack another users topic, start a New Comment if you cannot find a recent topic with the same issues for the same camera make as you are having.

As you have recorded to the CF card, then the video format is probably MPEG 2 Long GOP 4:2:2 which is not supported by MEP 17. Handbrake should be able to convert them to a format MEP 17 will import eg h.264 video and AAC encoded audio.

@AAProds

Hi Al

. . . . I did find an example MXF on the interweb . . . .

I have checked those files and while they do import, I believe they are not original camera files, they appear to be FFMEG conversions.

John EB
Forum Moderator

@Arlene-Allen wrote:

Thanks to both answers. It was enough to do timely further research. Looks like Video Pro X is limited. I need both XAVC-I and XAVC-L. Vegas lists those as supported as a kind of afterthought added to the end of the specs. I guess Sony isn't too popular. Catalyst Edit, which I never bought, also of course supports them since its from Sony. Choice I must now make. Also Avid provides support, but I only have the Avid audio suite of tools. No video and a bit pricey.

Sony is popular and the support in Vegas Pro is not an afterthought. Many use Sony cameras for video. If you want to see if Vegas or VPX handle your videos, download the trial versions and give it a go. That's the best way to know for yourself what works and what doesn't, in addition how well it works on your specific computer..

And there is always the option to supply sample raw footage uploaded to the cloud for others to download, test and report back.