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Flip4Mac XDCAM Import/Export Component

Flip4Mac XDCAM Import/Export Component

for Final Cut Pro

Version:  2.1.1

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needs improvements really soon....it's still too expensive

Feedback Type:  Commentary

Contributed by: versiontracker587 Tuesday, April 25 2006 @ 02:54 PM PDT

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: 1-6 months

Recommend Product: YES

Yes it's good, but MXF import is currently the only app that can perform this trick and at a substantial price i may say. I've converted 20 XDCAM discs with it and it performs almost flawlessly, the quality of the converted quicktime movies is excellent. Then again there isn't much to choose either. MXF has almost no options or adjustments.

And MXF import has it's best functionality if you convert from an XDCAM-deck with an ethernet-port.

But: there are very few networking-players around, so most of the time i only have the cameramans XDCAM camcorder as player. And these do not have networking, only firewire. Here's the gripe: Firewire doesn't allow you to mount the XDCAM as a device on an OS X-desktop. This only works on Windows PC's. It does however let you access the XDCAM-device as a tape-deck, and then you can do an old-fashioned log and capture, but that's doing things really slow. So, in order to do a speedy and non-linear import, you need a PC and a gigabit network and a Mac to make it work fast. I did try to import MXF from an XDCAM-ethernet equipped Sony-deck directly connected to my Mac, but that's only 100 MBit, so the firewire-workaround is still much faster.

What i would like in version 2? The ability to mount the XDCAM disc on the desktop with firewire on the Mac. Without using ethernet or a PC.   

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