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XDCAM File Sizes Change when Copied in Mountain Lion
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Still haven’t had a lot of time to get to the bottom of this, but today I had a job working with SoundDevices PIX240’s. Transferring using my Mountain Lion system to 2 Mac-formatted drives via eSATA. No difference in file sizes.
I still think it’s a combination of a particular non-mac formatting and enclosed directories. Just not quite sure of which ones. I know P2 and SxS cards seem to be affected.Louis Block
video/audio technician
Flying Wombat Productions
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Another interesting observation:
This week I’m wrangling P2 cards. I’ve noticed that when I do a “Get Info” on the copied directories, the file sizes match for about 3 seconds, then they update to the larger, unmatching numbers. What’s interesting, is that it makes no difference when I actually call up the information. I get the same updating behavior whether I check it immediately or an hour after copying the files. It’s as if the actual act of invoking the directory information is causing it to change.
Louis Block
video/audio technician
Flying Wombat Productions
San Francisco Bay Area -
It appears that only the BPAV folder is altered by Mountain Lion. If you drill down to the next folders you can verify the number of bytes the the clip folder (with XDCAM this is the CLPR folder) in the same way as before, by using “get info.” It’s not as elegant, but it works if you happen to miss the number before it changes.
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hi scott, i´m experiencing the same problems with r3d and mxf data from the canon c300 right now. did you find any more explanations meanwhile?
cheers rupert
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