Clip Browser or XDCAM Transfer?

[Andy Nickless]

As they’re free, it’s certainly worth getting both Clip Browser and XDCAM Transfer.

One little feature I like on XDCAM Transfer is that you can select all the clips and play them continuously like a movie. On Clip Browser – you can only select one clip at a time as far as I can see.

You retain more file info if you use Clip Browser to ingest.

[David Burch]

I have actually experienced a strange thing before with XDCAM Transfer, where a small section of the wrapped file had a couple of frames of digital dropout. The strange part is that when I went back to the original BPAV, the footage was clean at the same location, and I was able to re-wrap a small section of the footage and patch it into my timeline seamlessly. As a result I never get rid of my BPAV folder until my project is finished.

Another thing Clip Browser is useful for is if you are shooting long events that span multiple cards. Clip Browser will seam the cards back together into a single video clip. I’m not sure if XDCAM Transfer does this.

[Jason Brown]

[David Burch] “I’m not sure if XDCAM Transfer does this.”

In my experience, it does not…

good information, thanks for the update.

[Andy Nickless]

[Jason Brown] “In my experience, it does not… “

Hmm . . .
In mine it does!

This is a screen grab I took this morning. The thin vertical line on the timeline shows the point at which XDCAM Transfer has joined the clip which spanned two SxS cards.

It plays (and ingests) seamlessly from this.

[Jason Brown]

Maybe I’m not using it correctly then…my card just shows “incomplete clip” … if I put the other card in, it asks me to add the previous card…I only have one slot to ingest cards.

[Craig Seeman]

I could of SWORN I’ve said this before.

Use ClipBrowser with CRC on to copy clips to hard drive folder
Use XDCAM Transfer to access ALL the folders and it will join all the clips.

If you simply use XDCAM Transfer to wrap to MOV you’re heading into so many potential nightmares. BAN this workflow. Don’t go near it!

It was the third post in the thread responding to you. If you don’t understand it ask a question rather than spend a month of back and forth only to wind up back with the same instructions.

[Jason Brown]

Thank you Craig…I’m overwhelmed because I’ve had to jump into this XDCAM workflow using both EX and Disc based formats…I’m still trying to wrap my head around workflow with this tapeless stuff.

Thanks for everyone’s help.

-Jason