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Working with Sony and JVC XDCAM EX clips in FCP 7.0.3
Hi there!
For the first time I’m working with those codecs in FCP and face some difficulties. All files are placed on an HDD in the exact folder structure the cameras wrote onto the cards.
The Sony XDCAM EX files have to be transfered by Sony XDCAM Transfer. This works quite well for each file after another (although constantly errors occur, telling me “The clip thumbnail could not be saved to the cache as it was an unrecognised format.”) But how do I manage to get one new clip out of the number of clips the camera devided my shot into? From other threads in here I derive that should be possible, but I can’t find anything in the Help of the program. A detailed description would be very nice.
In addition, there is one file, that’s supposed to be four minutes long. But after transfering from mp4 to mov it’s just one second and one fame. Any ideas how that did happen?A hint to join the natively importable JVC clips in one new clip as well would be very nice too.
Otherwise I would put those single clips one after another in one timeline and export them as one QT Reference clip. I need them as one clip, as it’s going to be a multicam edit.
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[Stephan Liehr] “”The clip thumbnail could not be saved to the cache as it was an unrecognised format.”
This sounds like you are using an old version of XDCAM Transfer on Snow Leopard. You need to download version 2.12.
[Stephan Liehr] ” But how do I manage to get one new clip out of the number of clips the camera devided my shot into?”
My comments in this post should answer your question:
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/142/873329[Stephan Liehr] ” there is one file, that’s supposed to be four minutes long”
Does it span onto another card?
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If i’m not mistaken. The JVC shoots native quicktime movies in XDCAM EX codec.
So you shouldn’t not have to transfer/transcode anything. Just copy the files to your media drive, import in fcp and edit.
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Thanks for the hint to the XDCAM Transfer update, Daniel! That helped joining the Sony clips of one camera. But the tool doesn’t seem to support the same thing for JVC XDCAM EX…
And no, the EX clip that’s shorter after the transcode from mp4 to mov doesn’t span to another card.Thanks Paul, but I do have to join my XDCAM EX clips to one new clip, containing all clips of one camera. Otherwise they’re not editable with the multiclip feature. That makes transcoding necessary. But maybe you know another way to merge those clips?
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