Sony EX-1 import

[Eric Filios]

Gary,
No, i’m neither the shooter, nor the production manager, nor the person who transferred the footage incorrectly and then re-used the SxS media. I AM, however, the poor post-production schmo who has to try to rescue the footage after the fact (kinda like the waste-water treatment plant, i get all the effluent washing downstream to me). i’m not blaming sony or anybody, just looking for a solution.
and if they had asked me about work flow beforehand, i would have told them to use panasonic P2, which i am all set up to handle. so let’s be careful about casting aspersions.
And yes, it is a brave new world out there with data flowing around like politician’s promises.

eric filios
aardvark productions
charlotte, nc

[Gary Adcock]

eric

I was not casting aspersions, and the issue is the exact same with P2, without the contents of the entire disk, there are few things to fix the issue.

have you tried rebuilding the media files but dropping the CLPR folder into an existing “correct” archive:?

the BPAV folder contains
TAKR
MEDIAPRO.XML
CUEUP.XML
CLPR

and you maybe able to fool FCP to reconstruct the contents.

[eric filios] “I AM, however, the poor post-production schmo who has to try to rescue the footage after the fact (kinda like the waste-water treatment plant, i get all the effluent washing downstream to me)”

I hope you charge alot for this – I charge extra to clean up others mistakes.

gary adcock
Studio37
HD & Film Consultation
Post and Production Workflows
Inside look at the IoHD

[Eric Filios]

“have you tried rebuilding the media files but dropping the CLPR folder into an existing “correct” archive:?”

No, haven’t tried that. might be worth a shot.
How would one rebuld the media files? I have gone into Clip Browser on the PC and was able to “import” the clips i need as unregistered clips; so i can see them and i know they’re there. but take the drive over to the FCP mac after doing that and XDcam transfer still sees no clips.
there is a BPAV folder just hanging around on the hard drive, with nothing in it but an empty CLPR folder, a cueup XML, a MediaPro XML, and an empty TAKR folder. but i don’t think the dates match the dates i’m looking for. all the clips i want are in a CLPR folder by themselves.
i don’t really want to change the code for all these. i’m not a programmer. plus my glasses aren’t strong enough to read all that fine print! maybe if i charge them extra, i can afford a new pair.

thanks, all aspersions put aside.

[François-michel Nolin maffolini]

Here is a little something, might help.
My boss rent an helicopter to shoot the site from the air where McCartney was suppose to play in Quebec city. It was film with an XDCAM EX.

Yesterday i was ask to numerize those shots. But i did an error, i only transfered it on a hard drive, from the SxS card reader, not imported them in FCP. So today i tried to numerize them, guess what it didnt work.

I started to search on forums and find something. Someone said that in order to do that you have to download the latest update for XDCAM TRANSFER. Doing that, i was able to import the files in the XDCAM TRANSFER program but i was only able to see TC but no image or media at all.

Search again and found a PLUG-IN for LOG and TRANSFER on FCP. It only work on FCP version 6 and beyond. It worked and i imported the shots.

Here is the link

https://www.sony.ca/xdcamex/software.htm

[Tom Filin]

This may help.
If you only have the MP4 files, and can get access to an EX-1 camera, you should be able to recover the files for FCP.
You need to format a SxS card in the camera so it builds the correct directory etc. You then copy the MP4 files into the same directorys that they were in on the card. When you load the card into the EX-1 it should give you a message that says the files need re-indexing. You say yes to the camera, and it should rebuild the missing files.
Hope this helps.

[Tom Filin]

Just to confirm the full process I have just gone through it on a machine.

1: First place a clean SxS card in the EX-1 and from the media menu format the media.
2: Connect the camera via USB to the machine, I have an XP machine, and delete the two XML files in the BPAV dir.
3: Copy the MP4 files into the sub dir CLPR, from your machine.
4: disconnect the USB and you will get a message on the EX-1 that asks if you want to restore the media? You do this and the EX-1 shows the video clips in the clips windows etc.
5: Connect the EX-1 camera backup to the machine with the Sony XDCAM EX ClipBrowser V2.0 and view the video clips on the USB disk. At this point the ClipBrowser will move the clips and re-build the BIM, PPN etc files in the original directory on the SxS card.

Hope this helps.