EX 1

[Dean Sensui]

Not sure how you transferred your files. I hope you kept the BPAV folders intact.

Each BPAV folder should be nested within its own folder. You can label that outer folder anything you want. Reel 1, Reel 2, etc. Keep the names short, just in case.

You can then use the XDCam Transfer application to browse what you shot, and convert them to a file format compatible with FCP.

Dean Sensui — Hawaii Goes Fishing

[Rafael Amador]

Hi Andrew,
I have an EX-1 but haven’t been in our situation. can not help you.
Have a look in the “SONY CineAlta” Forum.
There are the brains of the XDCAM.
And as Dean says: DON”T TOUCH NOTHING FROM INSIDE THE BPAV FOLDER!!!
Everybody who do that gets in troubles.

Mac OX 10.5.2-FC 6.02-QT 7.4.1
G5 2x2Gh 4GbRAM-BlackMagic Extreme
PMBP 17″Core2Duo 4GbRAM-AJA ioHD
JVC DTV-17″
SONY EX-1 . SONY PD170
..and always a big mess on top of the table.

[Navarro Parker]

Yup, the XDCAM Transfer app is the key. Launch it, Click the Add button and then find your BPAV file. All your clip icons will load up. Select the ones you want and then click “import”. (You can also set in/out points on each clip too)

XDCAM Transfer will put a Quicktime wrapper on your files. Then any Quicktime aware app will be able to play them.

There’s also a setting to send converted files directly to your open Final Cut project.

[Zak Mussig]

Andrew,

I’ll reiterate the advice you’ve gotten about nesting the intact BPAV folder within another folder rather than renaming it or modifying it. This is the key part of the EX workflow.

To avoid confusion and frustration, it should be emphasized that there are two pieces of software that deal with footage from the EX1. The clip browser, which it sounds as if you’re using, is just playback software. The XDCAM Transfer app, which everyone is referring to, is the one you want to use. You can find it here.

Add the folder you put a BPAV folder inside of (adding the BPAV folder itself doesn’t work). Now mark your clips and/or subclips and transfer them.

Does anyone know if they fixed the bug whereby clips are duplicated in the FCP browser if you have to software add them vs importing them into FCP yourself? That may determine which you want to do.

Hope that helps,

Zak

“You can’t fix coverage in post.”

[Rafael Amador]

[Zak Mussig] “Does anyone know if they fixed the bug whereby clips are duplicated in the FCP browser if you have to software add them vs importing them into FCP yourself?”
It seems that no fixed in the new version. People complains about in the CineAlta Forum.
I really haven’t had that. I always use the Transfer as stand-alone.

Mac OX 10.5.2-FC 6.02-QT 7.4.1
G5 2x2Gh 4GbRAM-BlackMagic Extreme
PMBP 17″Core2Duo 4GbRAM-AJA ioHD
JVC DTV-17″
SONY EX-1 . SONY PD170
..and always a big mess on top of the table.

[Steve Connor]

It’s fixed for me!

Steve Connor
Adrenalin Television

Have you tried “Search Posts”? Enlightenment may be there.

[Robert Dexter]

It was an FCP 6.0.2 bug, not an XDCAM Transfer bug. It’s fixed in FCP 6.0.3 so if you’ve recently upgraded that’ll be why the duplicates have gone away!

[Andrew Gregg]

Thanks guys. I was trying to open the mp4 files. I had the XD cam transfer software installed, but wasn’t opening from the BPAV folder.

Andrew Gregg
Director
LiveABC Taiwan

[Andrew Gregg]

Another question. I recorded the project in 720 60p, just to experiment with the slow motion. My timeline is set to 720 60p, and the clips look as if the shutter angle has been changed – choppy like. When I change the timeline to 720 30p, it’s in slow mo. Is there any way to have it look normal (ie 24/30p video)?

Thanks for any help.

Andrew Gregg
Director
LiveABC Taiwan

[Don Greening]

[Andrew Gregg] “I recorded the project in 720 60p, just to experiment with the slow motion.”

Shooting in 720p 60fps is not the correct setting for shooting slow mo. If you want smooth slow mo you need to shoot 720p 30 fps and then enter the “S&Q Motion” mode. Then adjust your frame rate anywhere from 31fps to the maximum of 60fps. If you shoot at 60fps using the “S&Q Motion” mode your clip will play at half speed and you can check the result right away in the camera.

Using the regular 720p 60 mode is good for capturing fast action sequences such as sports but I’ve never been able to get decent looking slow mo in post using this setting.

– Don