This is the second part of my series about working with camera cards in Apples Final Cut Pro X. In the first part I have covered the basics, now it’s time for some more nitty-gritty. Copy? Rewrap? What Does That all Mean? I have already explained in the first part of this tutorial that Final Cut Pro X will copy media off the camera-cards into its own storage location. While this is true it does not always make an exact duplicate of the files on the card. Some file-formats like mpg4 from some Canon DSLRs are copied over as they are, but a lot of formats like Sony’s SxS or XQD cards or Canon’s XF-format are treated differently by Final Cut Pro X. Instead of copying the .mxf files those cameras write to their cards 1:1, Final Cut Pro X rewraps them to .mov files. NOTE: Final Cut Pro X can import most MXF files directly for a while now. So if you import a single .mxf file FinalCutProX will not rewrap it. If you are importing from a card it will rewrap. Rewrapping means Final Cut Pro X strips the mpg4 encoded video out of the MXF container file and puts it into a new QuickTime container. During this process, video is not re-encoded or altered, thus not degraded in quality. This is an important fact to keep in mind! Some camera formats — I have encountered this for example with video from the Fujifilm XT-2 camera — are imported (copied) into Final...
Published By: CineD - Friday, 18 January, 2019