MXF to OMF utility ?

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Sanchez

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Hey HVX experts,

Hope everyone is enjoying their new holiday toys -

I just got my HVX over the holidays ... I also have a DVX, I just wanted to take advantage of the end-of-year financing/tax write-off and bundling deals and also needed to add a 2nd camera package to my production company.

I currently edit/produce a weekly SD show that's broadcast on our local PBS affiliate. I've been editing using an old version of AVID DV (3.5) on an Athlon-based PC. It's been great and rock solid for the past 5 years. My plan is to continue shooting and producing in SD but in widescreen, squeeze mode so the station can up-convert and insert into their HD broadcast stream.

I would like to stay with AVID (been a user for more than 10 years) and am trying to avoid upgrading for now until I start producing/shooting in HD. I am very comfortable with the AVID interface. I know I would need to upgrade my computer as well as my AVID in the future if I want to start producing/shooting in HD to allow for direct MXF import into AVID.

To tide me over ... Is there a utility to convert the P2 MXFs to OMFs to allow import into AVID?

I thought by purchasing the HVX and recording ontu P2 I would save on my monthly tape stock costs. But, I can't import the P2 MXF's into my old AVID, so I'm still stuck shooting SD ontu tape ... any solutions ?

I have the CS3 Production Bundle (I use AE and PS) but, as I said above, I would like to stick with AVID for editing.

Could I use Premiere as the conversion utility (MXF to Quicktime) to allow import into AVID? I realize that AVID would then have to turn the QT files into OMFs.

Thanks,
Jay
 
Hi Jay- I can't answer your first question (not aware of any that do that).

You're one of the lucky ones . . . proficient with your Avid (although it make your choice more difficult because of the expense to upgrade).

As an owner of current versions of Edius Broadcast, CS3, and Xpress Pro I can only recommend that you either upgrade your Avid or become familiar with CS3.

For me it's a tight race between Edius and CS3 . . . hardly use the Avid anymore (but I'm not a well seasoned user).

Best.
 
Thanks for the advice ---

FYI, I'm in FLA right now visiting family over the holidays (I'm based outta VA) -- I'm enjoying the December FLA weather just a little north of you in Venice/Sarasota. I got my HVX shipped down to FLA (purchased from Spec-Comm) so I can familiarize myself with the camera while on vacation (?).

I guess I'll have to start learning Premiere ... currently I use Premiere CS3 for creating credit rolls on my graphics/audio workstation, which I then xfer over my LAN for import into AVID.

I may just splurge on the AVID mojo that a DVXuser has been trying to sell on the Marketplace section ... hopefully that can run on my Athlon and is a version that would directly import MXFs ...
 
Thanks Barry !

I'm going with FOCUS's HD File Converter -- the trial (non-functioning) version looks like it'll do exactly what I need and then some.

BTW, I'm using this "down" time to experiment with the HVX and read through your in-depth book.

--Jayc
 
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