Clone an XDCAM disc?

[Jason Lyons]

A bit of a confession… I failed to keep it simple… Copying the disc’s contents works just as well as cloning in half the time. Has anyone had any long term regrets about backing up or making a second master source disc to a hard drive?

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[Colin Powers]

Jason,

How did you just “copy” the files? What program did you use?

I couldn’t get CCC to recognize my XDCAM disk at all (23G disk) – CCC announced that the disk wasn’t an HFS+ volume and therefore CCC wouldn’t have anything to do with it.

I’m mounting the disk to the desktop using a PDW-F70 deck connected to the Mac via firewire in FAM mode.

I haven’t figured out any method for making a disk image much less cloning or copying the data back onto a disk.

Regards,

Colin

Colin Powers
Director of Production & Programming
Mountain Lake PBS
http://www.mountainlake.org

[Jason Lyons]

I mounted the XDCAM HD disc on Mac OS 10.5.6 via the Sony PDW-U1. It mounts to the desktop like any other drive, so copying was just like copying from another hard drive. The copying method proves to be worthless if you plan on using Sony Transfer tool or any other software looking for an actual XDCAM disc to acquire footage. However if you have a NLE that edits MXF natively then this option might be of value to you.

Regarding Carbon Copy Cloner, I simply pointed CCC to the XDCAM HD disc and told it to make a read-only disc image.

Are you able to mount the XDCAM disc to your desktop? Are you using the latest Sony XDCAM Transfer software 2.9?

[Colin Powers]

We are using the v2.9 XDCAM software and OSX 10.5.7

We are using the PDW-F70 deck instead of the U1. Maybe this is the problem.

In any case, CCC will not allow me to do anything with the disk as mounted.

I’ve noticed that Sony has posted v2.10 of the transfer software which may make this process work with our setup.

Colin Powers
Director of Production & Programming
Mountain Lake PBS
http://www.mountainlake.org