Import Error from SXS card

[Tom Laughlin]

Thanks for answering my questions. No, what I meant was, when we playback the BPAVs on cards and using the cameras to playback the video on the cards, the video is clean from what I see. But, yes, it doesn’t mean the entire card is clean. I know the cameras don’t playback .mov’s, I meant when ‘we play cards with the camera’. But yea, we’ll be doing CRC-checking from now on. This CRC-info was never emphasized by the Sony work-flow dudes at NAB this year, the B&H guys, or anyone else up to this point, before hitting the forums to trouble-shoot this. This is a major issue, that needs to be emphasized more. I guess we’re part of the small minority of whom have not been so lucky as others – who’ve gone way longer and have never had these problems, with CRC-checking. It’s just so frustrating that we’ve been doing this for a few months now, and are just now seeing this flaw in workflow.

Craig, thanks again for your posts. I really appreciate your patience and time in answering. Have a great week. Look forward to your future posts.

Thanks,

Tom Laughlin
Producer/Editor
Salt Lake City, UT
FCS3/Sony EX-3/Mac Intel

[Craig Seeman]

[Tom Laughlin] ” This CRC-info was never emphasized by the Sony work-flow dudes at NAB this year, the B&H guys, or anyone else up to this point, before hitting the forums to trouble-shoot this. “

Sony doesn’t even mention ClipBrowser in their XDCAM EX Final Cut Pro guide on their website. The original Clip Browser 2.0 didn’t have it as an option. Apparently they learned better and added to a following update. They never added any details about it on their site though.

In the ClipBrowser 2.6 manual (Mac Page 74)
Copy error check option
For greater copy reliability, you can enable the CRC (cyclic redundancy check) error check option.
and page 90
Perform CRC check after copy: When this check box is checked, the application performs a CRC (cyclic redundancy check) error check after copying a file, and displays a message if a copy error is detected.

[Tom Laughlin] ” I guess we’re part of the small minority of whom have not been so lucky as others – who’ve gone way longer and have never had these problems, with CRC-checking. It’s just so frustrating that we’ve been doing this for a few months now, and are just now seeing this flaw in workflow. “

Actually I think over time a fair number of people bump into issues that may be the result of bad copies. It isn’t common but it’s a numbers game. Shoot day in day out and the odds increase.