Charles Martin
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…i’ve posted on the Vegas forum also. I’ve learned that the only option for ‘batch’importing from a hardrive is to use ‘device explorer’…which will create duplicates to work from.
Now that I know this i will adjust slightly my workflow.
when you say—‘works for me’… do you mean that is what you do?
Or have you found a way to use ‘import media’ to do a batch import of your EX material from an External or Internal hardrive…?? -
…ignore that last post…. i’ve tried the DVD which i burned in two different dvd players….and it seems to work fine… no idea why it won’t work in the first one.
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Many thanks! …your questions and advice helped me get it sorted out…much appreciated..
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—I’ve just done some experimenting and indeed…there is a way to tell Device Explorer where to ‘save’ the material. I was able to direct Vegas to import the video material to a separate external hardrive…. so problem solved.
Much appreciated ..thanks to your thoughts and advice I was able to come up with the best workflow for this and it should solve my dilemma. Thanks… -
….Agree …100 per cent. In fact…I have a copy of all material on a separate hardrive. I put another copy onto the internal hardrive of my computer thinking Vegas would use that one after I ‘imported’ everything…
As mentioned ..I tried the ‘import media’ function…that didn’t work as explained before. I then used ‘device explorer’…which worked but I noticed that my internal hardrive space was dropping..so when I checked i discovered Vegas had made a second copy during the import…
The issue for me is internal hardrive space…obviously I don’t have the room to have an extra copy there—- so for me i will continue creating a copy on a separate external drive (or two) then navigate to device explorer to import to vegas….making sure i have enough space on my internal hardrive for such an import.
Unless I am missing something the only problem I see is that I’m going to use up space pretty quickly on the internal hardrive this way…..fine if I know I’m not going to ever need to return to an edited project down the road… but what if I do…? Clearly if i wipe that stuff off the internal drive that Vegas has created its not going to have anything to edit with…correct? Sure–i’ll have the backup on a hardrive or two somewhere but thats not going to help me if i need to come back and edit a project that I’ve saved on Vegas……again—maybe i’m missing something ..or maybe i need to check whats going on when device explorer does the import…maybe theres a way i can direct it to import it to a different external hardrive that way i don’t use up the space on the internal hardrive.
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you’re right about the drag and drop thing. If i open one of the files and drag the mp4 into Vegas there is no problem.
The problem seems to be that when you store EX material to a hard-drive it creates something called a ‘bpav’. Within that are all the video clips you’ve recorded each with a name…so.. every time you start and stop the camera you create a video clip. For the sake of explanation you would get something like: ABC_0001, ABC_0002, ABC_0003, and so on. You use something called Sony clipbrowser to then copy the video clips you want from the Media card (from the camera) onto an external or internal hardive. When you open up the folder where you’ve stored them you get a list of all those files. But within each one of those clips there are 5 folders…Only one is the MP4 video that you actually want. So if i open up ABC_0001 i will see an MP4 file, an SMIL file, a PPN file, an XML document and a BIM file. So i can highligh for example ABC_0001, ABC_0002, ABC_0003 but since its only highlighting essentially some kind of folder wrapper that contains the MP4 file Vegas won’t import it. Again..i can open these files to access the MP4 file (which has the same name by the way..i.e. ABC_0001) and drag it in or import it…but it has to be done one by one which is simply not feasible if you’ve got 200files.
This is a problem—if i’ve already copied all my video material to a hardrive i want vegas to work off that…but i can’t do that unless i import one by one which isn’t practical. I CAN import using ‘device explorer’ but then Vegas creates duplicate copies which i really don’t need. I’m going to try to contact sony about this but i really do appreciate your time and assitance with it..you’ve certainly helped me eliminate what can and can’t be done. -
…thanks again…as always very helpful!
The strange thing about this is that you can bring an EX video/file into Vegas using ‘import media’… but only one file at a time…which obviously isn’t practical.
My hope is that Sony will address this issue and allow ‘batch’ imports someday..that would solve the problem pretty easily. -
i you have purchased Vegas Pro 9….I am now on version ‘e’….is Pro 10 considered an update? or would I have to buy it?
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i’ve tried dragging and dropping the EX files into a media bin…it won’t work. The files are BPAV files and are not presented as MP4 files …which is essentially what EX video is wrapped in when its created. It won’t let me drop the files in as they appear in the hardrive folder….
This is all very strange—-again—i can ‘import media’ one file at a time but it will not allow me to batch import all the files in one hardrive… only one at a time… -
…the way i work..generally—is that when i am on a shoot I dump all the EX1 material off the card and into a folder at the end of each day…so after about 3 or 4 days i end up with a folder on either internal or external drive with anywhere from 30 to 60gb’s of EX material.
The cards are expensive so you can only have so many–they are then erased at the end of the day.
I then create a Vegas project and want to import all or most of that material. If you use the ‘import media’ setting it only allows you to import one clip at a time….not practical..
I use device explorer because it allows me to ‘batch import’ all the files/video material. But when I do it this way Vegas seems to create a whole separate bunch of video files in an ‘imported media’ folder.
Perhaps i didn’t understand something in your previous message. Apologies if i have missed something