XDCam EX problems with transfer

[Dennis Radeke]

Indeed, Premiere Pro will work natively with XDCAM media (or just about anything else as well). The most impressive for me are Canon 5D/7D and AVCHD media…

If you want to work with FCP, you could conceivably use Adobe Media Encoder to batch process your XDCAM footage to ProRes if everything else isn’t working for you.

On a more drastic (but cheaper) scale, you could try to format your hard drive and rebuild your Mac to get everything working properly.

Dennis

[Andy Mees]

[Dennis Radeke] “On a more drastic (but cheaper) scale, you could try to format your hard drive and rebuild your Mac to get everything working properly.”

Gosh. Well that is rather drastic advice Dennis (and as time is money I’m not seeing it as particularly cheap either). I appreciate you’re trying to sell Premiere Pro but I’d respectfully suggest that Jason’s issue may have nothing to do with his Mac / FCP install not working properly. Ideal it may not be, but the FCP tapeless ingest system is currently designed to support ingest from camera native media only ie original and correct full folder structure intact. My guess is that Jason’s system is already in good working order and might be doing so quite happily if he had that original media or properly imaged media copy.

Don’t get me wrong tho, am not trying to detract from PP’s ability to better support the plethora of modern camera native formats out there these days, thats a great feature and well worth proselytizing. My EDIUS systems do this too and I regularly bemoan FCP’s lack of support in the area (Of course thats when I’m not too busy shouting at EDIUS for making tasks that would be easy in FCP such a bloody nightmare. Lol)

Best
Andy

[Jason Porthouse]

Thanks Dennis, but my FCP system is quite fine… 😉

I’m pretty anal when it comes to maintenance, and a great advocate of ‘if it ain’t broke don’t fix it’ – such that when I migrate to FCP7/Snow Leopard in a week or so I’ll be storing my nice, reliable Tiger/FCP6 combo away in a little box should I need to change – it’s worth the 30-odd quid a new hard drive cost me.

The problem is, most definitely, to do with the XML files missing as a result of the director not copying over the BPAV files. I have now tattooed the requisite workflow on the inside of his eyelids, so this mistake won’t be made again. Files transferred in the proper manner, even though convoluted (Camera>PC laptop>Hard Drive>Mac) work fine. I’ll wager the XML contained within the BPAV file has some kind of tag that stops XDCAM transfer from fully seeing the files – for one, the creation tag seems to be different. I don’t have time (or the will) to start messing around with XMLs, so I’ll be trying the plugin Andy has suggested.

Here’s hoping Apple and Sony get this sorted for FCP8, but I won’t hold my breath.

Jason

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[Rafael Amador]

Jason,
Had you tried IMPORT the MP4 to the CB?
rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com

[Andy Mees]

He did Rafa, yes. (Up a few posts). CB accepts MP4 import by a couple methods and Jason tried both … it seems the resulting BPAV structure as created for him by CB was indeed recognizable by XDT but the consequent Import process just threw up errors nonetheless. I’d poke it with a stick myself if I was there (seeing is believing) but it does seem that something may be truly screwy.

[Rafael Amador]

The SONY’ boys really complicated the things.
rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com