Re: MPX Files into FCP by Shane Ross on Jul 28, 2009 at 4:36:06 pm
What are MPX files? From where? Are you sure this is footage? From what camera? What editing system? I had to Google and this is what I found:
"ASCII text-based data format exported from Microsoft Project, a project management program; designed for transferring project data between different versions of Microsoft Project; also supported by some third-party programs that can import MPX files."
That can't be it.
http://www.teleste.com/index.phtml?page_id=1486 "When the reliability of Teleste products is combined with the unparalleled video performance and mission-critical application optimized software, the MP-X product family becomes the industry leader for video surveillance networking applications."
Re: MPX Files into FCP by Shane Ross on Jul 28, 2009 at 5:09:41 pm
Well, the HVX-200 MXF format is importable into FCP, but the thing is you need the exact file structure in order to do so. Do the people who gave you this footage have the original P2 files? That is what you would need. Once you take the files out of that structure, or consolidate (copy) into an Avid and thus making them into Avid .mxf files, then FCP cannot work with them. I believe that MXF4QT is working on a solution for FCP to work with Avid .mxf files....but I don't think it is working yet.
But if you get Automatic Duck Pro Import and export a sequence EDL that has all this footage in it from the Avid, use the Pro Import to get it into FCP...I believe it converts the media into something FCP can work with. I have to test it myself, but haven't had the time.
