sony hxr-nx5u nxcam and Final Cut

[Kara Herold]

have you had any problems with LONG CLIPS?

[Kara Herold]

THIS IS MY PROBLEM RIGHT NOW. DID THE UPGRADE HELP?
THANKS

[James Cho]

Hi Chris,

What are the steps you took to transfer the footage from the NXCAM/memory-stick-pro to your FCP version 6? Did you need to buy a memory stick pro card reader?

[Christopher Smith]

I use SD cards instead of the Sony cards. But yes. I use a card readerand do a log and transfer.

Christopher Smith
Senior Broadcast Specialist
Warrington College of Business Administration
University of Florida

[Albert Salvato]

Wondering if anyone else has found a solution to this problem yet, of having long takes taking forever to tansfer from a nxcam 128GB flash memory unit. I have a 51minute clip that is taking more than 7 hours to transfer.

My theory is, that this is a highly compressed file that is unraveling itself during transfer and therefore creating a huge video file. If I let run over night I end up with a workable but very large in file size video.

I have tried Sorenson Squeeze and this does work faster but audio and video becomes out of sync fix it and then trying to render. That again your waiting for EVER makes me want to go back to tape almost.

Focus Firestore memory unit would save in a ready to go .mov files and would break the clip at every 2GBs this worked swell.
Is there a way to program the nxcam flash unit to do seamless breaks?

What is the best solution for recording long sessions?

[Eric Pensenstadler]

I use the nx5u and FCP7. I have not experienced that long of transfer times and I regularly shoot 50+ minute clips.

Are you log & transferring dirrectly from the flash memory unit or are you transferring ALL the files from the FMU onto a harddrive, and then from there (the harddrive) L&Ting into FCP? I suggest the latter.

Also, make sure you’re converting to ProRes 422 and not ProRes 422 HQ.

I hope this helps, but if not then post back more specific info.

Eric

[Caeser Pink]

I had this same problem but the answer is simple. You remove the flash drive card for the camera, then plug the USB cord from the computer directly into the flash drive.