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julietlimapapagolf

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Working With Canon XF300 Files

Sep 25, 2011 3:38 PM

Tags: #import #canon #mxf #xf300

Hi everyone,

I rented a Canon XF300 for a live event shoot yesterday, and now I am trying to get the footage into an editable form. The two hour event was broken up into numerous .mxf files (The container file that the Canon XF300). My main concern is how to merge those separate files into one large 1.5 hour file, to make the editing process smoother. Does anyone have any suggestions? I am using the CS suite for this job, but I also have FCP7 on my system, in case the workflow involves that software...

Thanks in advance!

Joel G.

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1. joe bloe premiere,

Sep 25, 2011 3:58 PM in reply to julietlimapapagolf

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Copy the entire folder structure from the card to an internal hard drive,
then use the Media Browser to import the media to Premiere.

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2. lasvideo,

Sep 25, 2011 4:02 PM in reply to joe bloe premiere

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And backup your digital files to another hard disk (or two)! Once they are gone from your camera, If you have any problems with your computers hard drive, your screwed.

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3. Matt Petersen,

Sep 27, 2011 7:21 PM in reply to julietlimapapagolf

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I'm faced with a similar problem as the OP. I can't find a way to join 2 or 3 clips together so a sequence can be edited as one. I'm on PP 5.0.3.

Apparently (and I can't confirm this) for Panasonic P2 files, Premiere works out which clips are supposed to be contiguous (using the metadata) and joins or merges them in some way.

This does not appear to be the case for Canon XF300/305 MXF clips.

Has anyone come across a workflow for joining or merging MXF clips for use in PP 5/5.5?

Matthew P
Brisbane, Australia.

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4. Colin Brougham,

Sep 27, 2011 7:53 PM in reply to Matt Petersen

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Canon XF spanning and metadata support was added in CS5.5, so yes--it's not automatic in CS5.

You could import the clips, drop them in a sequence end to end, in order, and use that as a clip; it's called "nesting."

Did you check in the Canon-supplied software if it can merge the clips into one file?

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