Confused about Calibrated Q products at DVinfo.net

Dave Chalmers · November 26th, 2009, 04:56 PM

Hi there,

I'm looking to buy a Calibrated Q product to enable the use of XDCAM Transfer on a mac without FCP, however I'm getting confused about the difference between their products.

I understand that XD Decode gives me the required codecs to allow XDAM Transfer (working, presumably using quicktime) to decode and display the clips, so I definitely need that.

What I don't understand is what the MXF Import product would add to this?
As far as I can see the XDCAM Transfer SW works fine with just the XD Decode product, so I'm not clear what extra I would get from getting the MXF Import product as well.

Anyone worked this out?

Regards

Dave

Dave Chalmers · November 26th, 2009, 05:58 PM

I'm going to answer my own question, as in the meantime I got a very helpful email from Greg at Calibrated SW.

The two products deal with different parts of the issue - MXF Import make quicktime apps 'understand' MXF wrappers and XD Decode allows decoding of the essence codec.
Since XDCAM Transfer already understands the wrapper there's no need for MXF Import.

Hope that helps someone else.

Regards

Dave

November 26th, 2009, 04:56 PM	#1
Dave Chalmers Regular Crew Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: GLASGOW, UK Posts: 71	Confused about Calibrated Q products Hi there, I'm looking to buy a Calibrated Q product to enable the use of XDCAM Transfer on a mac without FCP, however I'm getting confused about the difference between their products. I understand that XD Decode gives me the required codecs to allow XDAM Transfer (working, presumably using quicktime) to decode and display the clips, so I definitely need that. What I don't understand is what the MXF Import product would add to this? As far as I can see the XDCAM Transfer SW works fine with just the XD Decode product, so I'm not clear what extra I would get from getting the MXF Import product as well. Anyone worked this out? Regards Dave

November 26th, 2009, 05:58 PM	#2
Dave Chalmers Regular Crew Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: GLASGOW, UK Posts: 71	Got an answer I'm going to answer my own question, as in the meantime I got a very helpful email from Greg at Calibrated SW. The two products deal with different parts of the issue - MXF Import make quicktime apps 'understand' MXF wrappers and XD Decode allows decoding of the essence codec. Since XDCAM Transfer already understands the wrapper there's no need for MXF Import. Hope that helps someone else. Regards Dave