Split clips on one card

[Mike Plenty]

Hi David

Wow it’s a while since this issue was top of mind!

I’ve long since moved over to Adobe CC and now ingest all footage through XDCAM Browser (or sometimes Prelude). This just copies over the footage in its native format, keeping the BPAV structure, and when looking at this folder in the Media Browser panel within Premiere Pro, all clips are joined together no matter how many separate files they have been split into within the BPAV. I’ve had other problems but this is no longer an issue for me!

Sadly I don’t think we ever did resolve the issue within FCP. We were using FCP 6 at the time and I haven’t used FCP X so I’m not sure if that’s any different.

Good luck

[Colin Hickey]

Hi Mike, just wondering if you can help me!

Were you ever able to figure out why they split? The reason I ask is that I’m working on Avid (I shot my film on a Sony EX1). The footage was shot in one long take on one card. When I tried to export it to MXF it had broke into 4 pieces. I’m trying to export it into one MXF file.

I’ve noticed in the BPAV, if you open it, inside the TAKR folder there is file which is labeled as if the 4 files were joined but you are unable to export anything from this.

Any help would be much appreciated!! I’m pulling my hair out!!!

[Paul Zwicker]

You may want to start a new thread-this one’s 2 years old.

Never remove files from or rename BPAV folder-all the data within it in needed together. If you try to open one of the files within the folder, you will get nowhere fast.

Use Sony’s XDCam Transfer Software or XDCam Browser software to convert the BPAV folder into useable files.

Not exactly sure why files are split up-they are when you run out of room on one card and the files continue on the 2nd card in the camera.
Good luck.

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[Mike Plenty]

Hi Colin, we never did figure out what the problem was, but it hasn’t been an issue since we switched over to Premiere Pro from Final Cut 7.

Our workflow now is to ingest cards in full using XDCAM Browser, which retains the full BPAV structure from the SxS card. Then the Media Browser panel within Premiere sees these broken up clips as one conjoined clip.

There have been one or two occasions where this hasn’t worked and for some reason long takes still show up as separate clips. This doesn’t happen often but when it does, we just nest them together in a sequence and then use that sequence as footage.

Hope this helps, sorry can’t be more specific!

[Colin Hickey]

Thanks for your help Mike! Much appreciated!

[Colin Hickey]

Thanks for your help!!!

[Wolf Lawrence]

what does this mean? please elaborate/clarify…

nest them together in a sequence and then use that sequence as footage.