Device Explorer and hard drives?

[John Rofrano]

[Bob Mark] “I can’t seem to get Device Explorer to see any EX1 folders on hard drives. Is that possible?”

No, the Device Explorer is the way you should be placing the video onto your hard drive in the first place. Once it’s on the hard drive, there is no device to explore. 😉

~jr

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[Mike Kujbida]

Did you copy the entire BPAV folder and all its contents to your hard drive?

[John Rofrano]

[Mike Kujbida] “Did you copy the entire BPAV folder and all its contents to your hard drive?”

Oh yea Mike, I almost forgot. He can right-click in the Device Explorer and select Browse… and browse to the folder above where he copied BPAV and have it open. Thanks for reminding me. 😉

~jr

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[Bob Mark]

Thanks for the replies. I should have supplied some more info. I’m using Vegas Pro 12 64 bit. I copied the entire contents of the SxS card to the hard drive. When I go to the BPVA folder with Device Explorer, “open” is grayed out. I also, have a SDHC card in a slot with a copied BPVA folder on it and “open” is grayed out on it as well. I am trying the use the clips directly, without having to convert to MXF.

Thanks.

Bob

[Mike Kujbida]

Bob, you need to go one level higher than your BPAV folder.
Here are two examples from cards for footage I shot yesterday on my JVC HM-750.
The one on the left is browsing the card directly while the other is after copying the contents of the card to an external hard drive. In both cases, I had to go one folder level higher to get OK to light up.

[Bob Mark]

Great. Thanks Mike. I thought I tried that. I guess not. Thx Agn.

Bob

[John Rofrano]

Yea, that’s why I said, “…and browse to the folder above where he copied BPAV and have it open.” You need to browse what would have been the drive letter.

~jr

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[Bob Mark]

As crazy as it sounds, I thought I had clicked on everything I saw!!
Operator error. Thx.

Bob

[John Rofrano]

[Bob Mark] “As crazy as it sounds, I thought I had clicked on everything I saw!!”

That’s the exact problem with that interface design… You don’t see the Browse button!

You have to know to right-click in an empty area. IMHO the browse button should be on the toolbar. I can’t see any reason to make that one single function a hidden right-click. It even fooled me because I thought I remembered pointing it to the filesystem and I looked for how to change where it was looking and it wasn’t until Mike posted that I remembered about the right-click menu.

~jr

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