After my first two EX3 shoots, I have questions about importing and other things.

[Daniel Wright]

[Daniel Wright] “This means that all the clips from all sources, only the whole clip will be imported.”
[Richard Doyle] I don’t get what you mean. If you can elaborate, that would be great.”

Sorry, loose connection between my brain and fingers. What I wanted to say was:

The default settings of these checkboxes are such that if you select all of the clips belonging to all of the sources and then click the Import button, only the whole clips get imported; there is no duplication as the individual parts are disabled.

Although it makes sense when you are aware of it, this behaviour sometimes causes newcomers problems. For example, if you mount cards one at a time from the camera then clips that span across cards never become available in their entirety and consequently they don’t get imported (unless you set the checkboxes to import the individual parts). That is probably why the recommended workflow is to copy everything off the cards first and then have all the cards online in XDCAM Transfer at the same time.

[Richard Doyle]

Thanks, I think I am following the recommended workflow? What do you mean when you say “…off the cards first and then have all the cards online in XDCAM Transfer at the same time.”?

I import everything with Clip Browser(the mp4 files included). And then the mov files with XDCAM Transfer.

I just bought a FAT32 hard drive and it’s no use for downloading XDCAM footage to it, because of the 4GB limit. I’ll use another hard drive.

As you can see in this screenshot, I have changed the setting from NTSC to PAL. For some reason NTSC was checked when I first opened the software. Is that okay to do this? I’m always working in PAL.