Originally posted by: halperin
so i got back the raw footage from my wedding and all the files are in the .mxf file extension. when i try to play the clips with VLC player it plays but the video seems to be skip frames. audio comes out fine though.
what i would like to do is edit all the various clips and put them into one wedding video. what is the best way or what software should i get to start playing around with that? also, why wont they play in vlc player? how do i make the final video play normally? thanks!
We'd really need more information to provide you with any sort of solid explanation, solution or advice. That being said...
Are you on a PC or Mac? What OS are you running? What are the hardware specifications of your system? This will help identify what software packages your system is capable of running as well as allow us to narrow suggestions for the best to use.
Regarding the .MXF files, .MXF is just a "container" file type and not an actual codec/format. To attempt to deterine what's going on with the video, we've really got to know what the actual codec/format of the video and audio are. To do this in VLC: For Windows, click Tools then Media Information. For OS X, click Window then Media Information. In either case, after doing so you will most likely have to click the little arrow next to each stream displayed and read off the information displayed there. You'll most likely see two streams, one for audio and one for video.
If your system is on the older side and the codec/format used to encode the video is newer/more compressed, that in and of itself could explain the skipping. If that's the case, you won't need to do anything other than upgrade your system in some manner (possibly as simply as putting in more RAM but potentially involving upgrading the CPU+heatsink or replacing the system entirely) to get it going. Question: Have these files ever played on any other system or hardware without the skipping issue you've described? If not (especially if they played back in that manner on the hardware that captured the video), the files themselves could be borked and only contain what you're seeing--lots and lots of dropped frames.
Let me/us know and we'll see what we can do to help more specifically.