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Sony Ingest Z7U Question…
Hey All…
Been a while since anyone asked/commented on this, but is there any news on loading files directly from CF with the Sony Z7U? I know you can ingest from it “real time” but that really blows. The only savings there is head-wear, not time.
Would be nice to copy the CF files to an archive location and ingest from the files. Otherwise, there’s at least one extra set of files doing the CF-> Hard Drive-> Clipwrap-> Transcoded files-> to File import FCP X.
Is there some magic formula I’m missing? Why can’t FCP X do this? Why hasn’t Sony bothered to help?
All the best,
Fitz
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Mike,
I wish Sony came up with a plugin for FCPX. Meanwhile I go back and forth between ingesting in FCP7, and using Clipwrap, so I don’t really miss not having a Sony plugin.
Thankfully, the HDV files are relatively small, so if I keep a copy of the card, as well as the ingested files, it’s not an insane amount of space on my drive.
And I’m considering NOT keeping a copy of my cards since I keep a clone of my external drives, with all the ingested media on it.
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Don’t live your life in a secondary storyline.Mark Morache
FCPX/FCP7/Xpri/Avid
Evening Magazine,Seattle, WA
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Thanks for the reply, Mark. I guess I was hoping for a way to “Clipwrap” my footage right into a camera archive or even to create a camera archive from a folder of QT files.
I’d gotten in the habit of copying my CF cards to my drives first, but since the need to be transcoded for FCP X to see them, I now wind up with the CF files, the transcoded files, and the plain old QT files in the events folder.
Also, if I’m not mistaken, doesn’t Clipwrap strip away some of the original metadata?
Oh well, maybe someday FCP X will be able to ingest directly – like by embedding something like Clipwrap in the “Create Archive” function.
– Fitz
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I think there should be a folder like the itunes folder “automatically add to itunes”.
By dropping footage in there, it migrates into the FCP Events folder without making another copy.
To avoid that, here’s what I do.
After I clipwrap the footage into a media folder, I then ingest the footage into FCPX without copying the files to the event folder. This creates aliases to the media in the event.
I like to keep it like this, so I can manage my media folders myself.
If I want the media to live in the event folder, you can simply drag the media files from where you have them, right into the “Original Media” folder, thereby replacing the aliases with the original media files.
Whenever I’ve done this, FCPX has had no trouble recoginizing the media files as the same thing as the pointer.
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Don’t live your life in a secondary storyline.Mark Morache
FCPX/FCP7/Xpri/Avid
Evening Magazine,Seattle, WA
https://fcpx.wordpress.com -
Good tip. Thanks! I still wish there were a way to create Camera Archives from folders. It would be an easy way to keep files “semi-online” for quick use without mucking up the interface with a million projects or whatever. Maybe I’m looking for a distinction where there isn’t a difference?
– Fitz
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