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  FCP X, XDCam SXS and Yosemite

  Posted by Michael Sanders on October 25, 2014 at 9:56 am

  So I have a problem..

  I upgraded my edit machine to Yosemite and made sure all the important stuff including XDcam SXS import to FCP X – Which it does fine.

  I now have a card that refuses to load. The card is a 64GB pro+ card (which I normally use with an F55) formatted and shot in a PMW500. The card is full – I mean down to the light flashing rapidly full!

  The second card of the shoot has about 4 mins of material, exactly the same type of card, formatted the same just less material. But loads fine.

  Anyone else have any similar problems?

  Michael Sanders
  London Based DP/Editor

  Michael Sanders replied 11 years, 6 months ago 1 Member · 2 Replies
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  Michael Sanders

  October 25, 2014 at 11:27 am

  So after further investigation I cannot get either of the PMW500 cards to load into FCP X. These are UDF formatted cards.

  Both cards can be read fine and I can transcode a file to Prores in Catalyst Browse. But FCP doesn’t read them at all. Just sees black

  I can read and ingest a card formatted in a F55 in XAVC mode into FCP X 10.1.3 perfectly fine.

  Michael Sanders
  London Based DP/Editor
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  Michael Sanders

  October 26, 2014 at 9:57 am

  The current state of play is this:

  I removed all the files I could see relating to SXS cards from Library – Filesystem and Library – extensions and then reinstalled as per Sony’s advice of device driver first then the UDF driver.

  Currently the card shot on an F55 in XAVC mode reads fine, but when I put a card from an PMW500 with XDCam MPEG50 material, formatted UDF mode it comes up as “This disc is not formatted” – so at least its reading it.

  This by the way is using a Sonnet Thunderbolt Express card adaptor.

  Any ideas gladly welcome!

  Michael Sanders
  London Based DP/Editor

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