G4 powerbook useless to EX-1 user?

[Don Greening]

The Sony Transfer Tool has always been a universal binary app for both Power PC and Intel Macs. It’s the Sony Clip Browser that’s Intel only. People are using the Transfer Tool on their earlier machines so as long as you have the minimum OS and QT requirements you can give it a try. The Transfer Tool software is free anyway, so give it shot.

Hope this helps.

– Don

[Craig Seeman]

ShotPut Express from Imagineproducts will run on PPC and does copy and file verification similar to ClipBrowser. It’s not a player though but it might be a good way to copy BPAV from SxS to hard drive.

[Sandro Cannova]

Hey

yeah that actually helped a lot and I have another question,

Is it possible to convert XDCAM files with FCP or do I have to use the transfer tool?
Or as I understand from FCP 6 it is possible to use the XDCAM files, but it’s still easier to convert them bz the tool.

My question is mainly concerning the work-flow during the shoot, as we would only have the PowerBook G4 whilst shooting and a MacPro in the EditSuite.

The perfect solution (as we wanna stick to Apple) to get a MacBook Pro with loads of Hard Disk, so we can store and check the clips in the breaks. Am I right in this assumption?

Thanks again for the help,

Regards,

Sandro

[Craig Seeman]

[Sandro Cannova] “Is it possible to convert XDCAM files with FCP or do I have to use the transfer tool?
Or as I understand from FCP 6 it is possible to use the XDCAM files, but it’s still easier to convert them bz the tool. “

If by “convert” you mean have the BPAV rewrapped to MOV (it’s lossless) you can do that with XDCAM Transfer as stand alone or XDCAM Transfer as plugin . . . and now you can do it using FCP’s Log and Transfer Import too. There was a plugin for that but I believe and suspect the recent round of updates to the Sony utilities might have included that option.

Someone with FCP 6.0.4, Clip Browser 2, XDCAM Transfer 2.7 who did not download the separate utility (I think I found it on Sony Canada’s site which seems to be in the Sony vanguard) may want to confirm that. If not, I can dig up the link to that plugin.

[Sandro Cannova] “The perfect solution (as we wanna stick to Apple) to get a MacBook Pro with loads of Hard Disk, so we can store and check the clips in the breaks. Am I right in this assumption? “

You “betcha!” I just did a 2 and half hour shoot with MacBookPro and had one card offloading while the other card was still shooting. 2 and half hours and no “reel” changes. The whole think imported as one continues clip. Using SxS with MacBookPro is never having to say sorry, gotta do a reel change. Never have to worry about interrupting a speaker or worry about missing part of a live show for a tape change again.

[Sandro Cannova]

Thanks Craig for the help!

I suppose the G4 just doesn’t kick it anymore, especially with the EX1 and 3.

Cheers,

Sandro