Importing XDCAM footage into CS6

[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Mike,

When working with camera media, the best process is to COPY the top folder from memory card directly to your hard drive. Do not dig down and try to copy just video files, and do not use any Sony transfer software. Reason being that some formats have the audio and video separate, and there is MXF data and such interspersed throughout all the folders,and if Adobe doesn’t have access to ALL the original info, that is where problems come from.

So copy the whole works over to hard drive “as is”, then the next important step in Premiere is to use the MEDIA BROWSER to import the clips, rather than just “Import”. Media Browser will dig down and pull up the video clips for you, in the proper context, so that they work

Thanks

Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor Computers

[Mike Albertini]

Hi Jeff,

Thanks for your reply. I don’t have access to the camera or the memory card. I have been given an external hard-drive with folders on it which has all of the content in them.

I WAS importing through the media browser from the top most folder and still getting the message ‘the file has no audio or video streams’.

I’m pretty sure there’s nothing wrong with the file structure I was given because FCP7 could import it though Log & Transfer.

Bearing all that in mind is there anything else which you think could be the issue?…This is the first project for which I’ve used CS6 so it could be some of my settings aren’t quite right…

Saying that, this project has also included Canon 7D and Canon 5D footage and that imported ok.

Any advice would be much appreciated

Thanks

Mike

[Jeff Pulera]

Mike,

Possibly an Adobe bug, so be sure you have the latest update patches installed for Premiere. Beyond that, PC guy here and don’t have any other brainstorms, sorry

Thanks

Jeff

[Mike Albertini]

Hi Jeff,

I just updated to CS6.0.2 and now instead of getting the message ‘the file has no audio or video streams’ when I try to import it from the media browser I get the message ‘unsupported format or damaged file’.

But FCP7 imported them ok so they’re not damaged and CS6 supports these files…

So still not sure what’s wrong…

Thanks for the help,

Mike

[Chris Tompkins]

Like you’ve done, use the files FCP created to get thru the job. Then R&D why this is happening with APP when you can.

Chris Tompkins
Video Atlanta LLC

[Imad Creidi]

I have The same problemmmmm
and dont have FCP i have avid but the export didnt work , i have the files only but all of them i copied all of them from the memory card but still not able to get them to CS6 what can i do plz help

[Alex Elkins]

Same here. My solution was to re-wrap to .mov using XDCAM Transfer. Bit of a pain, but at least technically speaking it’s still native.

Alex Elkins
@postbluetv
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[Lee Denham]

HI, I just renamed my .MOV to .MP4 and it worked like a charm.

Please try that and let me know what happens.

Best,

Lee.

https://www.LeeDenham.com

[Frank Flynn]

Hi, just catching up with this thread as I’ve just started using a Sony pmw300. I’m on prem pro cs5 and I simply transferred the clips and all other files from sxs cards via USB to my hard drive then used media browser in prem to import to the project – it all works perfectly with no errors so far, but I’m wondering if I need to transfer the other associated files with the video clip? Does it make a difference or does pp reference them somehow in the project?

Anyway just thought I’d mention that it’s trouble free at the moment tho this is my first project with this media!

System: Windows 7 64bit premiere pro cs5.03, matrox rt.x2: importing 4:2:0 xdcam HQ 1920 X 1080 footage.

[Jeff Pulera]

It is important to transfer ALL files, keeping the folder structure intact. We first discovered this years ago with XDCAM having erratic playback, crashing, etc. when using basic File > Import methods.

Once we switched to copying all files and using Media Browser, problems went away. Don’t tempt fate.

The Media Browser also imports spanned clips as a single clip. Doesn’t physically alter them, but just “understands” them correctly on import.

Thanks

Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor Computers