Log and Transfer vs Pro Res compressor

[Vander Furff]

Thank you very much for your timely reply, and this is an excellent tutorial.

Having followed all the steps, though, I’m still having trouble logging and transferring the already transcoded footage. The only way I seem to be able to get it into the system is by direct import. As long as basic issues like conflicting file names are addressed, can you tell me what the downside of this might be? The errors I’m getting upon use of log and transfer regard file structure, but the file structure of unchanged prior to transcode to 422 mov from mts files.

Thanks again for your time and insightS.

Best,

VANDY

[Don Greening]

I’m not quite sure I understand your latest question but here goes.

The Sony Alpha SLT-A99 release date was at the beginning of September 2012. Development on the legacy Final Cut Pro 7 was halted at least 2 years before that. It may very well be that FCP doesn’t quite understand the Sony A99 naming convention or its AVCHD clip wrapper and this is where you start to see transfer errors in the meta-data.

Rather than going through FCP’s log and transfer, if you’re able to simply select all your converted A99 AVCHD files and import them into a FCP bin there shouldn’t be any problem doing it that way. Once you bring the transcoded files into FCP any meta-data that was successfully transferred along with the clips will stay with those clips throughout the editing process.

– Don

Don Greening
A Vancouver Video Production Company
Reeltime Videoworks
http://www.reeltimevideoworks.com

[Vander Furff]

Don,

This response is very helpful.

Might have been confusing, my reference to file names. To clarify, the shooters delivered files from separate A99’s which defaulted to the same file names. Would typically handle that during L & T, but in this case have done so offline.

You may be onto the problem with the AVCHD wrapper. Certainly makes sense, given the FCP 7 reaction. One puzzler is that we also had some D7000 footage that wouldn’t transcode, either. An older camera, obviously, but regardless everything is flowing now. Good to hear your thoughts on bringing transcoded footage into the project via only import. Wasn’t sure if there was something I was missing so it’s a reassurance.

Btw I upgraded to Mountain Lion just prior to these problems, and am seeing some feedback that FCP 7 plug-ins don’t always play nice with Mnt Lion.

Off to go play with Plural Eyes 3.

Thanks once again for your time,

VANDY