XDCAM EX Clip Browser problem

[Craig Seeman]

[Andrew Beneze] “I am new to the tapeless world and have just got an EX3. My problem is that when I open the clip browser nothing happens. I just get the options (file, edit, view) at the top of the page.”
Either the description is incomplete, you’re not explaining everything or you need to reinstall ClipBrowser.
File, Edit Preview, Window, Help.
A row of icons which duplicate some of the menu functions
A top and bottom Explorer window
A Preview Window on the right.
Select icon for SxS on top left and see thumbnaiils to the right of it.

[Andrew Beneze] “FCP is seeing the SXS reader through Log and Capture. Is this the same thing? “

NO. ClipBrowser is to Copy BPAV (with CRC on preferably), split or combine (usually for archival on optical disk or other).
Log and Transfer re-wraps to MOV for FCP (as does XDCAM Transfer but has many more features).

ClipBrowser PDF Manual Mac OS portion is about 40 pages.

[Andrew Beneze]

Hey Craig, you are right. I did leave ‘preview and window’ tabs out. I am watching the Vortex DVD on the EX3 and they are showing how it should look. I am just seeing the tabs at the top of the screen.

[Craig Seeman]

I’m not sure what you mean. Does it not look similar to what you’re seeing on the DVD?

[Andrew Beneze]

No. I just have the tabs at the top.
Just got off the phone with Sony Support. they tell me that Clip Browser was designed for Macs using Avid. That confused me a bit. They gave me other ways to save the BPAV file.

Thanks for your help Craig.

[Clint Fleckenstein]

Step one: open New Explorer Window. You should find it under the File menu if I remember properly Please don’t take my brevity as a wiseguy answer, once you get that new window open you’ll be ready to rock I’m sure.

Cf

[Andrew Beneze]

Believe me I understand. I just got off the phone with Sony. They claim that Clip Browser was not designed for FCP but for AVId. They did me some simple work arounds to save the BPAV files.

[Craig Seeman]

[Andrew Beneze] “Just got off the phone with Sony Support. they tell me that Clip Browser was designed for Macs using Avid.”
The person you spoke to was ill informed or you misunderstood.
ClipBrowser works on intel Macs and Windows and it’s not tied to any NLE.
Please read the manual.

[Craig Seeman]

[Andrew Beneze] “hey claim that Clip Browser was not designed for FCP but for AVId. “
MAJOR WRONG See my other post.

[Andrew Beneze]

Thanks Craig. I did. I have figured it out. I appreciate your time on this.

[David Soriano]

i’m in our boat. I am editing in FCP and have been simply copy/paste BVAP to HD then re-wrapping to .mov via XD CAM TRansfer, totally bypassing Clipbrowser. Now i am looking in to archiving BVAP and getting files off media card through something more secure than copy/paste. This is where Clipbrowser comes in, but can’t seem to get a simple import of files off card going. All i see are these .mxf file. Guess i need to go over manual. What did you end up doing?