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Sony HVR-DR60
I have been using the Sony HVR-DR60. Every single time that I use “that dang thing”–problems. When I use the “log and transfer” many clips will transfer just fine, BUT every time there are a couple of clips that will not transfer OR will not showing up in the transfer window. What gives? I always have to use my tape. Sometimes I can switch to Video mode on the unit and press play then “caputre now” in FCP…
If I am missing something, please let me know.
Thanks,
Sean Harris
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6 Replies
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It’s called “Bleeding Edge Technology”.
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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
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I don’t have any solutions to offer… but only to add to the list of problems.
Today we taped for 1 hour and 26 minutes… and because the HVRDR60 is formatted in FAT32, it has to chunk that video into 4GB files. None of our sessions that went in over 20 some odd minutes (over the 4GB file size) came in correctly. We either only got the first file’s worth or even less.
Too bad too… We’re looking to purchase a harddrive based pro-ish HD cam and thought we’d found a great solution. I just haven’t had a good experience here and reading around on the web has mostly been more similar stories of grief.
I’m using the Sony Plug-in (v101) for FCP 2 on a MacBook Pro running OS X 10.5.4
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I would suggest that you contact your local Sony rep about these issues. They should be able to direct it to the proper people.
OR…
You can contact Juan Martinez here on the COW. He’s a Sony engineer and all around tech whiz with this stuff! He’s a member of the EX series team but I’m sure that he could help you out.
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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
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Thanks.
I’ll check locally first… I just wanted to see if anyone had more up-to-date info/something easy that I was missing.
-Steve
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Steve,
Sorry your having trouble, if you haven’t already…try setting dr60 to “video” and FCP to “capture now”
your footage may all be there.The “log and transfer” seems to have trouble mostly. Some times, I have actually had material on tape that wasn’t on the DR60, but most of the time the footage is there, but FCP’s log and transfer doesn’t like the DR60…you’ll get an idle drive error.
(I am currently trying a cache off experiment and see if it causes the drive to go idle)
Hope this may help.
Sean Harris
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We did try the capture now thing and it does work… we just weren’t planning on having to do real-time capture. The speed of the transfer is what brought us to look at this solution.
FWIW we haven’t seen any actual errors pop up… it just thinks it’s done before it is and the clip is much shorter than it should be.
Yes, all of the files are there and we’ve looked at them with MPEG Streamclip to verify it. So for now, we’ve just moved the full folders (of M2T files) over to another FW hard drive and cleared the hvrdr60 for more recording. We’ll either convert them with streamclip, or bring them in on another computer that has Premiere on it. It seems to deal better with the m2t files directly. (not that Premiere is a long-term solution for us, IMHO)
It’s just frustrating/disappointing that between two companies like Apple and Sony, we, the users, are left with this level of interoperability.
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