Clint Fleckenstein
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Well, one other way this can happen is if you have channel 1 turned off in XDCAM Transfer before importing, and have the box checked for “only import monitored channels” or whatever.
The only thing the camera can do is record channel 1 to both channels; it can’t do the same with channel 2. Therefore it’s either an importing/rewrapping issue or a footage-interpretation issue.
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The audio tracks are recorded and interpreted as dual-mono. In Final Cut Pro, they’ll be mixed in preview and your timeline. The quick & easy way to isolate your channels is to highlight the clip and hit option-L, which via menu is the “Stereo Pair” command. That will pan CH1 to the left and CH2 to the right. You could also do this manually in the preview window.
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I’m with Ronn. I sent a friend some MXFs despite my gut feeling that I should send him the BPAV. Sure enough, he came back saying he couldn’t use them. I burned the BPAV folder and the Sony software apps and sent him on his way. He still had problems with them, and it was going to SD anyway, so I just downconverted the stuff and left it at that. He’s on an older Media Composer so we deduced that it was simply not current enough to deal with the footage.
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Well, one nice thing about it being an SDHC card and not an SxS card is that you can throw it into a garden-variety card reader and try a number of recovery utilities. On a SxS card you’re hosed that way, at least in my experience in playing with a few “what if” scenarios.
My guess is that even if a file recovery utility was able to find and recover the files on the card, it will NEVER make sense of the cryptic nature of all the folders, subfolders, and other little files associated with the metadata. That’s because the directory information is gone, and these utilities actually look for orphaned files on the card. So just try to get the MP4’s restored. Then see if you can use Clip Browser to rescue those into a new BPAV folder on your hard drive of a new card. You may lose metadata but recover the footage, which at this point seems like a best case scenario.
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I’m a big do-it-yourself kinda guy, but the price of the upgrade is small enough, and the turnaround short enough, to make sending it to Sony a safe bet and a good idea. After all, if THEY toast the firmware they’re (presumably) not going to send it back broken 🙂
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Is there a way to “de-brick” such a camera?
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We love our 7506’s.
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Darn. I was hoping to be useful. The only other thing I could suggest is checking and re-checking all the settings in the U1 Utility to make sure that the disc is properly formatted (there is a recovery utility) and that it’s not set as write-protected. Those things have to be done through the application, if I remember correctly.
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I don’t think this is an XDCAM Transfer problem…make sure you install the latest version.
Sony released a firmware update for the PDW-U1 that enabled a lot of functions for XDCAM EX users and Mac users in general. The file I have in my Downloads folder on this machine is “PDW-U1_VFAM_v221_WinMac.zip”. You might want to check your firmware version on that drive. I downloaded the update from the Sony support site.
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I’m not sure on the “MPEG-2 vs MPEG-4” thing. I think the EX cameras technically encode an MPEG-2 stream in an MPEG-4 file wrapper. I can say that the EX codec seems quite efficient, since we edit in the field on a MacBook Pro (one of the very first Intel models) without any worries.
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