[Andreas Dalsgaard]

Thanks. Clear answer to my question, although the facts you offer are annoying. Gotta go. Gotta compress a lot of files…:-)

[Andreas Dalsgaard]

Dear Craig,

You are my new hero!!! Fantastic – worked right away after days of distress

Andreas

[Andreas Dalsgaard]

Great to hear from you. I’m pretty distressed here!!!

I have imported directly through clip browser 1 (although I do have downloaded 2 by now). The clips have been sorted in bpav folders through by the clip browser. What happened was, that a large amount of clips were organized in one big folder. Then at some point the programme told me, that this folder couldn’t contain any more clips. After that, I organized the rest of the footage in smaller folders around 25gb. I have been able to import these later clips into the xdcam transfer, and further into FCP, but not the footage from the original folder.

The clip browser can both split and combine folders. I have tried to split the bpav into separate folders with a maximum of 10 GB. Then I tried to import these folders separately into XDCAM transfer. That worked for the later clips from my footage, but not for the main bulk. I have tried many different folder sizes, but nothing works. The later clips only worked, after I made them smaller than 10 GB. All the time I have been combining and splitting through clip browser and not manually.

Now I have combined the footage in one bit folder again. It is organized in a pbav, which contains an CLPR with all the clips, plus an empty TAKR folder and CUEUP and MEDIAPRO XML files. All the clips are in separate subfolders under the CLPR, with each folder containing the MP4 file plus SMI, PPN, XML and BIM. In total I have 541 separate clips with a total of 300GB.