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Log & Transfer Footage from Sony HDR-XR150 Camcorder
I have got footage recorded on the internal 120GB Hard Disk of Sony HDR-XR150 using HD FX (AVC HD 24M (FX)) image quality setting.
I would appreciate it very much if some one could provide me guidance on how to:
(1) Log & Transfer this footage onto Final Cut Pro 7 on MAC Pro DeskTop, and
(2) Back up the original footage before deleting it from the camcorder internal hard disk.It is my first time to use footage from this camcorder and I am not much familiar with it.
The manual talks about Windows PC compatible “Picture Motion Browser” software, but it does not provide any support for Apple computer.
The footage, as I understand, is in AVCHD: MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 format with image quality recorded using HD FX (AVC HD 24 (FX)) setting.
Please help.
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Logging and transferring it couldn’t be easier. Just hook the camera to your Mac via USB. Once you plug the USB up, the camera will pop up with a little menu asking you which source you want to work from (either the camera’s 120gig HD or any SD card you might have in there). It can’t work from both at once I don’t think.
Once you’ve selected the HD, the camera will say it’s ready to go. Fire up FCP and choose “Log and Transfer”. All your clips should be listed in the Log and Transfer window. Choose one, mark your in and out points on the right side and any Logging info and drag it into the queue down at the bottom. (Or just drag the whole clip without IN/OUT points if you want the whole thing).
What FCP will do is transcode the AVCHD file into an Apple ProRes file that you can edit with. No problem. The transcode process is nearly a real-time process from what I’ve seen. (ie 5 minutes of footage takes 5 minutes to transcode)
The ProRes files will be saved to the capture scratch folder you have selected for your project.
As for backing up the raw AVCHD files, I imagine the camera’s HD will appear in the FINDER window of your Mac when you connect it. All you have to do is dig for the files you want. (You might have to sift through some sub-directories to find them, and the file names will probably be a pretty rudimentary numeric sequence.)
Hope that helps. I just got the same kind of camera myself (after spending eight years with nothing at home but a MiniDV camera. *shudder*) so I haven’t had much time to play with it, but I like what I’ve been able to do with it so far!
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Dan Charrington
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635 Queen St E. Toronto, ON
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Since upgrading to Mountain Lion my Sony HDR-XR150 is no longer showing all files within finder. I had to plug it into a PC to transfer the movies.
All I see is a greyed out AVCHD file. But it should be a the actual folder with all the video content.
Any ideas as I tried on another Mac with same OX
Regards, Wayne
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