Ex1 SD cards that span…into vegas

[Gilles Gagnon]

I should add… as I researched this I see refs to the sony clip browser. Do I need this in SVP 11?

Cheers,

Gilles

[Mike Kujbida]

Gilles, I hope the following suggestion will work.
Download XDCAM EX ClipBrowser.
Put a card into a USB reader, hook it up to your computer, open up ClipBrowser and browse to the folder containing the video files.
I can’t tell you the exact path as I’m sure that camera lays files out differently than mine does.
When you do find it, you should see a bunch of clips in the preview window.
Now go File – Export – MXF for NLE and choose a path for the converted files.
Repeat for all cards.
Import the new MXF files into Vegas and you should be good to go 🙂

[Gilles Gagnon]

Thanks for coming to the rescue Mike!

1. Is there not a direct method? without needing the extra software?
2. How are clips that span 2 cards handled? will I see it divided in 2 clips? (without any drops) or will the 2 be stitched together? I only have one card reader.

Thanks,

Gilles

[Mike Kujbida]

Gilles, MY JVC cameras split the recording into (as I recall) 2 GB. segments even though I may shot for over an hour continuous.
ClipBrowser puts them back into one continuous file.
If you don’t want to go through that, here’s another suggestion to try.
Find out what format the EX1 recorded in and do a search of the card for that format.
The search result screen should show only the files with that particular extension.
Drag those into a properly labeled folder and then into Vegas.
The only drawback to doing it this way is that they won’t be one continuous event (if that’s what you’re after).

[Gilles Gagnon]

Hi Mike,

Just to let you know, I’ve d/l the browser app and am exporting the clips to .xmf as we speak. Don’t know how it’ll handle the card span. I just hope no footage time is lost.

Thanks!

Gilles

[Mike Kujbida]

Gilles, please let me know how everything turns out.
I know you won’t lose any footage because I did a test some time back to see what happened when I spanned a card and not a single frame was lost.

[Robert St-onge]

Gilles,
You could also drag all your .mp4 files from the EX1 sd card and drop them on the Vegas timeline in the proper order, then select all shots and group them pressing G on your keyboard. You will still have the splits in the shots but they should play seamlessly and hold out as one shot.

Mike’s method is good in the sense that you will have one seamless shot, no visible splits.

Mind you that there is also Device explorer in Vegas which I never use but could probably handle your .mp4 files.

[Gilles Gagnon]

Thanks Robert,

I’ll try the dev explorer next time. I didn’t this time around because all my research and Mike’s approach pointed to the browser Snoy util. I assumed there was a good reason for it. Perhaps I was wrong and could have used dev explorer. I now have .mxf instead of .mp4s. don’t know if this matters.

Gilles

[Robert St-onge]

Gilles, .mxf or .mp4 are the same in quality.

Only when the EX1 was out, you couldn’t import .mp4 footage into Vegas and you needed to convert it to .mxf

In the latest versions, Vegas handles the .mp4 footage from the EX1, with no conversion.

[Gilles Gagnon]

Clear as iceberg h2O!
Thanks Robert,

Gilles