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Okay. From this number of channels and the fact that you mention the UK, I'm guessing you still have Freesat as you've said in some of your previous posts on this forum.

Is that correct?

Right. That should be very doable.

If you have Freesat I'm pretty sure it would be the standard Freesat channel numbers. The ones you'd key in on a remote control with a regular TV. For example, BBC 1 would be 101; ITV 4 would be 117.

Here's a full and up-to-date list of them:

http://www.a516digital.com/p/freesat-channel-list.html

mc2xml channel IDs, as shown in the example on mc2xml's home page.

These are completely different to MP's channel IDs.

I have no idea what the mc2xml channel ID for BBC 1 would be, and MP can't give you that information either.

Without knowing exactly which 50 channels you're interested in, I could only guess that the easiest way would be to use channel number ranges.

In other words:

1. Click start, type "notepad" in the search box (for W10: type it in Cortana's question box) and press enter. This should start notepad.
2. If your favourite list included BBC 1, BBC 2, ITV and Channel 4, you could enter 101 (for BBC 1) on the first line, 102 on the second etc.... or you could save a ton of time and simply enter "101-104" on the first line. etc. I really can't give a better or more specific than this without knowing the contents of your favourites list.
   
3. Click file -> save as.
4. Navigate to the folder where you've put mc2xml.
5. Change "save as type" to "all files".
6. Set the file name as "mc2xml.chl".
7. Click save.

As previously stated, mc2xml and MP are completely separate and independent, developed by different people. I'm not aware of any export function in MP that could produce a file which is in the format that mc2xml expects.