MXF to After Effects

[DCSensui]

I'm interested in previewing MXF files in After Effects on a Mac, specifically a Mac Book Pro. This is to help ensure proper lighting, etc, when doing green screen composites in the studio.

Right now the only option is to import into Final Cut Pro, then drop the media files into AE for test composites.

Was wondering if there's a more direct process that wouldn't require having to go through FCP.

At the moment I suspect the only option would be recording directly to the Mac Book and bypass the process of making MXF files on a P2 card.

 

[hvx_germanboy]

Would be great if there would be a direct way into AE (in europe they dont even have the settings for pal set), but unfortunatly ae doesnt work with .mxf at all.

And my feeling is that this wount change in the future, so for cc i think we have to see the developement of nles like edius(pc ) what we can do directly from there.

MAybe you should check out the cineform products, you will still have to convert the files (to quicktime in your case, hope that works as i am .avi and pc based) but its doing this very well and does the "whole files" automaticly.(not sure how the workflow is in fcp)

Good luck and lets pray that one day adobe surprises us in a positive way!