SONY ex1 help!

[Craig Seeman]

My concern about logging is that after you’re done with a project and deleted the files on hard drive.
Months later you need to reconstitute the project and have the original BPAV but the file names on those don’t match the file names in FCP. FCP might track the files through UMID (file ID that doesn’t change) but I haven’t tested that.

Unlike P2, BPAV files have an intelligent number system so I leave it at that.
For example, I set the file name in camera to begin with 3PV and thus are numbered 3PV0001, etc.I can always make notes next to the clip but I want to know a year from now that 3PV0971 in my sequence is a given file if I need to pull it back from my optical disk backup.

You can change the AlphaNumeric in the camera . . . for example it can represent a given camera on a multicam shoot or the abbreviation for the client. Key is NEVER duplicate a number. Doug Jensen warns about that in his EX training DVD. The last thing you want is two 3PV0971 files. Imagine naming a shot JohnCloseUp3 only to have to go through 3 different shoots with JohnCloseUp3 to find which one was in your timeline. Basically I want the clip name to be a UNIQUE identifier and I save the description for the shot note.

[Marcus Perfjell]

Thank you for that valuable information, now when you mentioned I remember that you can change the filenames, will never use the same ones twice!

I’ve got to buy the DVD about the EX1.
I’m reading the user manual for clip browser now, thank you very much for all your help Craig.
You have learned me alot this afternoon:P

In the future I will be using Clip Browser instead of “just copying the files”
Marcus

The fall of building 7 is a bit weird.

[Mark Greer]

The way to do it (for now – AUGUST 2009) is Download the camera chip in VEGAS 9 using DEVICE EXPLORER – under “VIEW” (in VEGAS 9) and it will bring your clips into VEGAS to handle them. If you already brought the whole BPAV File into your hard drive, you can get all those clips named and trimmed in the XDCAM CLIP BROWSER EX- THEN EXPORT THEM FROM the XDCAM EX Clip Browser to another folder (hit shift & highlight all the clips you want to CONVERT TO .MXF Files at once) using FILE – EXPORT – Export convert to MXF for NLE – and they are just as beautiful as VLC. They don’t crash like VLCs in high quality. The cameras firewire can only transfer 25 MPS so the higher resolution settings on the camera are no good to plain old “play” through the firewire.

Mark at Video Wholesale Services – Salt Lake City, Utah.

We need better workflow. Also your XDCAM Clip Browser needs a fix for the display, it looks like “I Dreamed of Jeannie” all W-a-v-e-y on playback, like it needs an adjustment to the video interlace (which there currently is NO adjustment for.)