PDW-U1 can´t write

[Ian Cook]

Do you have the driver installed? If the U-1 is always in read-only mode, how do you write from Vegas? Are you working from multiple systems?

Latest driver can be found here:

https://www.servicesplus.sel.sony.com/sony-software-model-PDWU1.aspx

Afterwards use the bundled utility app to upgrade the firmware on the U1 (firmware is included with the utility; you don’t need to download anything else).

[Allby Corry]

Thank you Ian,

I have all new upgrades U1 v2.30, firmware 4.50.

Looking in the properties of all the folders, are read only.
I´m using win7 64-bit and if I go to the disk management I can see that the drive is read only.

I can not understand how I can write to it.
I know is that if I export a file IMX from any program other than the CS5, I can write the file in the U1, very strange…

Cheers,
Allby

[Ian Cook]

Does the drive itself show as read-only or just the Clip, Sub etc folders? It’s normal for these folders to be restricted. Are you able to export sequences in other codecs from Premiere?

[Allby Corry]

Looking at the drive in the disk management it´s read only.

I exported the sequence to avi, dv and 25 others codecs, but none of them lets record to U1 disk.

Is it possible to be a problem of Premiere?

[Allby Corry]

Ian,

I just export a file using the IMX Rhozet Carbon Coder, and can record in the U1 as well as the file generated in Vegas.

[Ian Cook]

Is Rhozet exporting a file with a C*** name, while Premiere is exporting a file with the sequence name? You need to enable Free Naming on the drive (in the Utility app) in order to send it anything with a non-canonical file name. Can you check this?

[Allby Corry]

Was in Free, I switched to C*** and back for Free but still the same way.

Sorry but what is C*** name?

Rhozet exported with the same name that I exported from Premiere.

[Ian Cook]

What if you export locally and then try to manually copy the file to /clip?

C0001 etc file names are the default names for XDCAM files. The ‘Free Naming’ setting allows you to use arbitrary names.

If you’d like to send me a short sample file to check out here on my system, let me know.

[Allby Corry]

Ian,

I’m exporting to a drive and then try copy using explorer.

I have a mac book and installed the U1 and tried to copy the file generated in Premiere (win7) and received the following error:
The folder can not complete the operation because some data in “file name ” can not read or written (Error code: 36)

I’m sending you a short sample.

1467_verao.mxf.zip

[Ian Cook]

The file has 4 channels of 16 bit audio. I think this is probably the issue. IMX formats must have 4 channels of 24 bit or 8 channels of 16 bit. The U1 can work some magic with the channel counts on certain formats but can’t do 16/24 bit conversion. Can you try again with 4 x 24 or 8 x 16?