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FCP and EX 1 transfer
Please Help!I have FCP 6 and an EX 1 camera and am trying to transfer material via a G4 i book to a hard drive. I have the Sony software that came with the camera but it is ‘not supported in the laptops architecture’ What do I need to make this work? Thanks in advance
Paul F
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3 Replies
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A MBP. Just put the SxS card in the EXPRESS slot and you can download just with the SONY Transfer application. I think that works only in Leopard because the drivers of the EXPRESS card.
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Hey Paul,
Sorry to second Raphael’s bad news, but what you need to make this work is an Intel based Mac. I’m not certain that Leopard is a requirement, but he may well be right about that as well.
Assuming you’ve gotten FCP 6.whatever to run on your iBook then you may be able to get the Log and Transfer functionality for EX footage to work from within FCP and forget about XDCam Transfer. I haven’t personally played with that workflow and I’m still using XDCam transfer, but it’s worth checking out as it may be your only option without changing hardware.
That said, if you can afford a MacBook Pro (or Mac Pro) you should make the jump. I personally can’t imagine working with that footage on a G4.
My $.02
Zak
“You can’t fix coverage in post.”
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[Zak Mussig] “work from within FCP and forget about XDCam Transfer. I haven’t personally played with that workflow and I’m still using XDCam transfer,”
Hi Zak,
You can import the EX-1 footage directly to FC but you need any way the SONY Transfer installed to do so. However I preffer to download with the Transfer tool, then import the .mov files to FC.
Cheers,
rafael
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