Anyone know what Apple is referring to here?

[Bill Davis]

I think they’re referring to the common practice of making “disc images” of removable, volatile solid state media.

It’s what a lot of us do after every 5d or similar shoot, but the same process works for any solid state memory device.

You use the Apple “disk utility” to make virtual clone of the card. It becomes your backup file and represents a perfect image of the card at the time it was ingested. When you open a disk image, the camera sees it exactly as if the card had been inserted into the card reader including mounting the image on the desktop ready for log and transfer.

“Before speaking out ask yourself whether your words are true, whether they are respectful and whether they are needed in our civil discussions.”-Justice O’Connor

[Jim Giberti]

Hey Bill,
Right now, the projects I’m starting in X are all from existing folders so I had the same head scratch as Timothy.
In fact, if you watch Larry Js section on media and Events he states flatly that you should copy any folder of files directly to your desktop before starting the ingest process.
I really should contact him and tell him how misleading this is for the countless people using Canon DSLRs (maybe the actual core of X users right now?)

So when I come back from my first shoot next week where I’ll start an X edit from scratch, If I use a Disk Image, I will be able to use the “camera Import” function in X and do selects?

I was greatly disappointed with the inability to do this based on the documentation and LJs overview.

The obvious advantage being: store a 16 gig card for posterity. Transcode only, perhaps, 2 gigs to Pro Res for your actual edit.

Hey, glad you liked my audio ideas.
I’ve been enjoying your cogent explanations for a while.

[Bill Davis]

Jim,

Once you adopt the “dick image” strategy you’ll never go back.

On location, it’s the FIRST step I take. As each CF card is filled, is imaged then those images are backed up to two location drives.

When you go to Log and Transfer, double clicking on the Disk Image looks exactly to X as if you had loaded the original card.

Even better, if you have a bunch of card images on an external drive representing the source footage for a complex edit, FCP X will “see” those files when you launch (double click open) the image files directly from an attached drive and essentially “auto re-connect” them to your project library and any open current X timeline.

Disk images ROCK in FCPx.

“Before speaking out ask yourself whether your words are true, whether they are respectful and whether they are needed in our civil discussions.”-Justice O’Connor

[Jim Giberti]

[Bill Davis] “Once you adopt the “dick image” strategy you’ll never go back.”

I’m looking forward to getting through the current projects that I have to transfer existing folders and then everything will be done that way.

But do I have to call it a Dick Image?
Reminds me of an Anthony Weiner Tweet.

[Donn Lawler]

Hi BIll! You’ll have to pardon me for being obtuse but I’m new to the DSLR and FCP X workflow… I was hoping that I could pull out the CF card from my 7D, pop it into my card reader and FCP would see it mounted… from there I could create an archive and import the footage but as I’m finding out, this is not the case. So I was hoping you would share your workflow as to making a clone copy using disk utility..? Seems to me this is the strategy I want to use until Canon fixes their oversight. I sure appreciate you guys on this forum for sharing what you know to us “little people!”