Visit us at IBC 2008 in Amsterdam to see our MXF4mac solutions in action.

Ardis Technologies, the storage provider for Pro Video, Film and Audio presents the DynamicDrivePool as the basic requirement to achieve long expected Project and File Level Sharing between post production applications such as those from Avid, Final Cut Pro, Pro Tools and others using MXF. MXF4mac solutions demonstrate native access to MXF media in Final Cut Studio and Pro Tools from the DDP shared storage system. Visit Ardis Technologies at the IBC, Hall 7, J01.

FCP User Groups and Digital filmmakers from Los Angeles, Boston, Mexico, Italy, Germany, UK and from around the world will be heading to Amsterdam, The Netherlands for the First Annual IBC FCPUG SuperMeet to be held on Sunday, 14 September, 2008 at the Gashouder on the grounds of the beautiful Culture Park Westergasfabriek as part of IBC. This event will be the largest gathering of FCP Users and Gurus on the planet during IBC week. Hamburg Pro Audio is one of the Silver Sponsors at this First Annual IBC FCPUG SuperMeet. Come and join the event to see MXF4mac solutions in action, including the newest 1.3 version of MXF4QT and P2 Flow. P2 Flow is our latest workflow tool that works hand in hand with MXF4QT to speed up native MXF imports from Panasonic P2 tremendously in Final Cut Pro including meta data mapping and without converting or referencing to the QuickTime MOV format.

Sunday, 14 September, 2008 - 19:00 - 24:00 (doors open at 17:00)
Culture Park Westergasfabriek, Gashouder, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

www.lafcpug.org/ibc_2008

The 1.2 release of our pro importer solves the audio rendering in Final Cut Pro with D10/IMX files. We also have now the first export version available for PAL users.

It’s an exciting update for all D10/IMX users as we could fix the audio rendering issue in Final Cut Pro. Finally all D10/IMX media is supported natively in Final Cut Pro without the need to render audio anymore.

We also provide now a FxPlug plug-in for Final Cut Pro to update streaming MXF media with just one single mouse click. UpdateFCPMedia will launch automatically with Final Cut Pro and provides a new user interface element to fast re-scan and update media files. There is zero latency and no buffering or chunking of the recorded, ingested or transferred MXF media - you get what is there in the moment you click on the icon.

New features of MXF4QT Import version 1.2:

• AES3 audio rendering solved in Final Cut Pro (MXF4QT SD+HD Pro Import only. Not available in demo version)
• Support for duration set to 0 (e.g. EVS OP1a D10 edit while record files)
• Enhanced D10/IMX NTSC audio support
• UpdateFCPMedia FxPlug plug-in for Final Cut Pro (not available in demo version)

We now also have the first export version of MXF4QT available. We extracted the exporter from the importer so our import and export components are now completely independent from each other and available as separate products.

Features of MXF4QT Export version 1.0:

• MXF OP1a D10 export in QuickTime and compatible applications
• SD PAL
• IMX 30, 40 and 50
• AES3 audio 48 kHz, 16 bit (8 channels per track)
• 4:3, 16:9, Auto and None aspect ratio modes
• Streaming MXF export
• Universal Binary

Five weeks after our first release we provide the 1.1 update for both MXF4QT and MXF Info Light. Please check all details for this exiting update. Additionally to the well known MXF4QT Import we have now the first D10/IMX50 export available for PAL users. Please contact us if you are interested to get a copy of this version. The export is not available in the demo.

New features of MXF4QT version 1.1:

• AVC-Intra support
• SMPTE 384M uncompressed 4:2:2 UYVY (e.g. for BBC D3 transfer project)
• Enhanced D10/IMX video support
• Timecode is now supported for spanned clips with Panasonic P2
• Track and media improvements
• Track name metadata support
• Enhanced Finder support for previews and icons
• Finder Contextual Menu item for lock/unlock and type code changes of MXF files (retail version only)
• MIME support for audio only MXF media
• Update support
• Challenge and Response copy protection is now handled by the installer (retail single license only)
• D10 IMX50 PAL export now available

Features:

• MXF OP1a GC and OP-Atom import in QuickTime and compatible applications
• SD PAL, NTSC and HD 720p, 1080i
• IEC DV25
• DVCPro25 and 50
• IMX 30, 40 and 50
• SMPTE 384M uncompressed 4:2:2 UYVY
• DVCPRO HD, AVC-Intra
• PCM audio 48 kHz, 16 bit (1 channel per track)
• BWF audio 48 kHz, 16 bit (1 channel per track)
• AES audio 48 kHz, 16 bit (1 channel per track)
• AES3 audio 48 kHz, 16/24 bit (4/8 channels per track)
• Timecode
• Access of streaming MXF media (edit while transfer and edit while record)
• Universal Binary

New features of MXF Info Light version 1.1:

• AVC-Intra UL support

Hamburg Pro Audio released the first versionof MXF4QT Import. A new free demo is also available for download.

New features of version 1.0:

• Panasonic P2 timecode support (please see notes)
• Audio timecode support
• NDF (non-drop frame) timecode support
• QuickTime Aperture mode support
• Final Cut Pro timescale support
• ‘aes3’ OSType support
• Finder QuickLook support in Mac OS X 10.5
• Challenge and Response license management
• Free demo version now opens the first 30 seconds of MXF media

Features:

• MXF OP1a GC and OP-Atom import in QuickTime and compatible applications
• SD PAL, NTSC and HD 720p, 1080i
• IEC DV25
• DVCPro25 and 50
• IMX 30, 40 and 50
• DVCPRO HD
• PCM audio 48 kHz, 16 bit (1 channel per track)
• BWF audio 48 kHz, 16 bit (1 channel per track)
• AES audio 48 kHz, 16 bit (1 channel per track)
• AES3 audio 48 kHz, 16/24 bit (4/8 channels per track)
• Timecode (please see notes for Panasonic P2)
• Access of streaming MXF media (edit while transfer and edit while record)
• Universal Binary

Hamburg Pro Audio launched the MXF4mac website to provide comprehensive information about the new MXF products for the Mac. A demo version of MXF4QT and the basic MXF analyzer MXF Info Light can be downloaded for free.