Article Focus: In this video tutorial, Creative Cow leader Jeremy Garchow will walk you through a potential P2 workflow complete with metadata and native DVCPro HD editing on a Mac using MXF4mac’s MXF4QT Import and P2 Flow Contextual Menu (CM). Editing DVCPro HD P2 with no log and transfer!
Native P2 Editing in Final Cut Pro with MXF4mac
by Jeremy Garchow on Mar 8, 2009
@ Trevor-
Thank you. Yeah, not sure if FCP will ever work natively with MXF material from Panasonic quite like this. Time will tell. Every computer needs an MXF4mac license on it.
Jeremy
Native P2 Editing in Final Cut Pro with MXF4mac
by Trevor Ward on Mar 8, 2009
Good tutorial. Seems like this is something the should happen in FCP anyway. So what happens when the project is taken to a machine that has FCP but NOT MXF4mac? Or those guys go out of business?
Native P2 Editing in Final Cut Pro with MXF4mac
by Jeremy Garchow on Jan 20, 2009
To Josh-
Expensive maybe, but it saves boat loads of time and all of your information is in tact. Time is money. It might seems expensive because there's not a big application to show for it, but the heavy lifting that is happening (such as extracting frame accurate time code and audio mapping) is a tough job. Spanned clips are brought in as separate clips, they are not married, and the time code remains in tact across the two clips. The upcoming full version of P2 Flow will support FCP labeling so you can identify spanned clips right in the browser. In my opinion, Calibrated and MXF4QT Import are two different utilities. Metadata is becoming more and more essential to our workflow so it's not an option to not have it. MXF4QT import allows more flexibility that just importing MXF files into FCP. The guys at MXF4mac are treating MXF media as and end to end solution. It's quite cool.
Jeremy
Native P2 Editing in Final Cut Pro with MXF4mac
by Josh Wallace on Jan 20, 2009
Wow. That looks really great, thanks Jeremy. The P2/FCP workflow has finally become what it always promised to be!
399 Euros or US$515 is way too expensive for this though. Calibrated MXF offers almost all of those features for US$75. Only thing Calibrated MXF's version is lacking is the Metadata mapping which they will hopefully add in an update soon. And those contextual menu features which look pretty handy. How does MXF4Mac handle spanned clips?
Native P2 Editing in Final Cut Pro with MXF4mac
by Jeremy Garchow on Dec 16, 2008
Glad you like it! Stay tuned for the next one which will cover a but more of the MXF4mac workflow options.
Native P2 Editing in Final Cut Pro with MXF4mac
by Kim Rowley on Dec 16, 2008
Excellent tutorial, Jeremy. Thanks. Great subject, great presentation. Great usable information.
Native P2 Editing in Final Cut Pro with MXF4mac
by craig hellen on Dec 12, 2008
