UDF VS FAT (Sony SxS Cards – PMW200/PMW400)

[Nicholaus Mtawa]

Thank you Ian,

I have bought SxS Media and am getting all 50mbit/sec. Something weird arise again.

Am trying to ingest files of UDF format from camcorder (.mxf format) cannot be seen on Final Cut Pro 7 in a log and transfer window, while i was ingesting files from the same camera and same application shot on FAT format.

Note:
I have already installed
1. SxS Device driver (SxS_Device_Driver_v1052020)
2. SxSUDFDriver_v2.0.0
3. Log and Transfer Plug-In Version 1.2 for Apple Final Cut Pro 7 (XDCAM_EX_Log_and_Transfer_Plugin_1_2_0)

Still the problem persist. Please help me out to edit my files using FCP7 ingested using Log & Transfer as i did in a FAT format.

[Ian Cook]

Log and Transfer plugin is a little add-on we made for EX only. You should use either the XDCAM Transfer or Content Browser plugin. Each adds Import/Export XDCAM items to FCP’s FILE menu and both support UDF.

XDCAM Transfer is the one I;d recommend as it is extremely easy to operate and supports background processing (i.e. imports don’t lock up the computer). Content Browser is a more full featured card/file management application.

XDCAM Transfer: https://www.sony.com/xdcam-downloads –> Applications, Plugins and Drivers tab–>Legacy Applications

Content Browser–>https://www.sony.com/xdcam-downloads–>Applications, Plugins and Drivers tab

[Nicholaus Mtawa]

Thank you Ian Cook, am happy for joining this forum. Lots of my problems have been solved so far instantly.

Lastly, my PMW-EX280 it is a chinese version, is there any firmware update that can get my camera to English Language? I’ve been searching for it since i bought and ended up getting the update of PMW200/EX280 version 1.10 and it still deny to Update, any help!

Nicholaus Mtawa

[Ian Cook]

No firmware update but see if there a a LANGUAGE option in the OTHERS menu

[Walter Corbett csc]

Ian is there a tutorial or some place that will tell me how to download from my SXS cards to my mac to a hard drive.
I downloaded the UDF Content Browser but nowhere that i can find are there any instructions on how to download the cards…I have a sony reader

[Ian Cook]

No, but it is a pretty simple process. Best practice is to use CB to drag the clips from the card to your drive (i.e. from one location in the Explorer Window to another). Make sure that CRC checking is enabled in Preferences–>Edit–>Copy. This adds verification to the process.

You can also do a ‘Copy All’ using the “ALL” button in the top left of each Explorer Window or by right clicking on a card and selecting “Copy All.” This will clone the card to a location you can select.

You can also do Mac OS Finder (i.e. drag and drop or copy/paste) copies of the card though this is not recommended as there is no CRC/checksum verification. If you do find yourself having to manually copy the files, copy everything you see on the root level of the card to a new folder (e.g. “card 1”). Do not rename or modify the contents. If you put everything into a new folder Content Browser will treat that folder like an archive, meaning you will see the files as soon as you click on it.

[Nguyen Anh]

Dear,

I have a problem with our Cam PMW-150.

Please tell me how to export to file .AVI with Pmw-150?

May be I have to change form UDF to FAT?

Thank you so much indeed!

Anh

[Brian Holloway]

Hey Ian,
Hope you don’t mind me replying to such an old post. If you were recording on a PMW500 on a FAT formatted card on a to match an EX camcorder, would that allow the SxS card to be read by an EX recorder like the PMW-EX30?
Cheers!