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FCP And EX-1 cards Footage problem.
As a backup measure I transfered in the past the BPAV folder on my SXS cards (from an EX-1) so I had a nice and little backup of whatever I shot in the past. I dumped those folders in my External HD and brought it to the office to try to advance some work on some stuff, Unfortunately FCP has decided that is not a good idea and says that :
“BPAV” Contains unsupported media or has invalid directory structure. Please choose a folder ehose directory structure matches supported media.
Now, I downloaded de Sony EX browser and I can play the files, which tells me that the files are still in here, not corrupted or anything. Im thinking I have a problem with the Directory structure, I have tried in diferent ways to re-transfer this folders with no luck. Any ideas?
At the moment the BPAV folders are sitting in : MacHD/desktop/backup/bpav
Is there a default directory path? or..somehitng?
Comments will be much appreciated.
Thanks
Rodrigo Alva
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10 Replies
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In the future, make a disk image of your sxs cards for backup or use ShotPutPro from Imagine Products. By moving just the BPAV folder, you created a problem.
Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
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Did you use XDCam Transfer, and not just Browser? FCP doesn’t see the footage until you take it through XDCam Transfer. Go to https://www.sony.ca/xdcamex/software.htm and download the drivers also.
Greg Ondera
http://www.Plexus.tv
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Rodrigo,
Each BPAV folder needs to be inside a separate separate folder with unique name.
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I concur, each Bpav folder needs to be in its own folder. We never have a problem with XDcam or need any other software besides FCP and Sony.
When we are shooting, we make folders for each card.FCP 6.06, OS 10.5.8 2x3GHZ Quad-Core Intel Xeon, Kona LHe, Dulce Duo-eSATA 8 Drive, 4TB Raid.
John Knapich
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This is what is so maddening about Sony not marketing their workflow for XDCam EX. I see so many of these kinds of similar posts, and you would think they would attempt to tend to it. You need both XDCam Browser as well as XDCam Transfer. Browser is for securing your footage at the time of the shoot and making sure it is going into the right folder structure. XDCam Transfer is for getting your footage into Final Cut Pro.
You can indeed just drag and drop those BPAV folders, but it is important that you not overwrite them. That is where you can really go wrong. So make a folder for each SxS card and call it Card A and Card B and so on and drop each consecutive BPAV folder into the right folder that you set up. Forget the directory problem you think you are having.
When you use XDCam Transfer go to preferences first and choose where you want to download your transfer footage to. I always keep it in a folder in Capture Scratch, as I am a bit traditional with FCP. I like to know where to find it. Then import all of the BPAV folders into Transfer as you will want to span the clips that may have spanned from one card to the next, and then go to Transfer All Footage and you have it made. Either do this from FCP or Command I the footage into FCP.
Greg Ondera
http://www.Plexus.tv
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That is actually what I did, each card has a folder. Still nothing, I did just drag and drop the bpav folders instead of using a transfer tool which was my biggest mistake 🙁
As of now (while downloading the transfer utility and drivers again) have on my desktop a folder called sbs, inside is the bpav folder with all its stuff in, same result.
Thanks for the help btw.
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Just make sure in XDcam software that you are pointing to the folder HOLDING the Bpav folder. That seems to work for me. Also, follow the recent instructions on setting up your preferences in XDCam.
FCP 6.06, OS 10.5.8 2x3GHZ Quad-Core Intel Xeon, Kona LHe, Dulce Duo-eSATA 8 Drive, 4TB Raid.
John Knapich
Creative Director/Partner
Assembypix.tv -
Well, as expected I can transfer the footage using the XDCAM transfer utility. I did not have any issues in the past with this, I did have each BPAV into a separate folder, as I do now. Still only the transfer tool is able to transfer footage, FCP7 still gives me the same eror message.
Thanks for the help again…
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Hi Rodrigo,
Download the Sony Log & Transfer plugin and then just use Log & Transfer in FCP to import the files. You can’t import the Quicktime .MP4 files directly into FPC without a plugin so FCP ‘re-wraps’ them inside a .MOV container.
Sony XDCAM Transfer does exactly the same thing. If you’ve already used you need to find the folder when your new files were saves, and import those into FCP, i.e. not what’s inside the BPAV folder.
Good luck,
Alex ElkinsSalad Daze Films – Freshly Tossed
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Hi all and thanks again for the big help..
Yesterday got it working using the Sony EX-1 transfer tool, this happend while using my office mac book pro.
I dont understand however the fact that upon getting home and start working on this to finally get it fix had no problems whatsoever. My home station has no problems importing the footage into FCP without using the Sony EX-1 Utility, straight FCP. Nothing changed on my hard drive, scratch disks set to the HD it self as it were before..weird.
Thanks again.
Rodrigo Alva
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