Clint Fleckenstein
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Actually they’re announcing that I’m turning 40. No word yet on whether I’ll get any free swag out of the deal.
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When I started in “the biz” as a punk kid, I worked with a 2″ TCR-100 cart machine and a pair of Ampex ACRs, but never quad decks…we’d upgraded to 1″ C decks by then. I pulled my share of boneheaded stunts on that old gear over the years, too!
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Echo here. Those files are all invisible to you if you use the Clip Browser, and simply copy and/or drag & drop clips. It takes care of all the metadata housework for you and allows you to combine or split folders, move or copy folders, even make new clips. If you decide not to do things the easy way, then you’re likely to end up “breaking” the structure of the BPAV folder that the free software relies on.
It don’t [sic] get any easier than using the Clip Browser; it takes just as much work (if not more) to try to “shortcut” your way around it in the OS.
It’s kinda like joining a handyman forum and saying “I tried to loosen/tighten an allen head screw using a torx bit that fit, now I stripped out the head. Any suggestions?” Then you’d get a bunch of indignant replies saying something along the lines of “get an allen wrench next time.” 🙂 The Clip Browser is the right tool for the job.
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“I am taking the footage from the EX1 camera using firewire into my lab top. I have installed the Clip Browser V2.5.1 for mac.”
Wrong cable. The firewire connector is for video (HDV) only. You need to connect using a USB cable.
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Thanks a bunch, Daniel. I’ll have to look at that again. My big concern is that if I export a Quicktime movie title “Screaming Cheetah Wheelies” that I have a way to connect it to a raw XDCAM file back down the road. I’ll take some time to play around with it.
In regards to the Calibrated Software codec…I can’t install that on a Final Cut Studio system, can I? That’s why I figured I would export Quicktimes to the RAID that we keep online using this workstation, and archive the BPAV folders to XDCAM disc for the fire safe. Then I could use CatDV to catalog the Quicktime movies.
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I’ve been playing with the 30 day demo for a while and it doesn’t like the raw clips (it sees the Quicktimes okay though). Am I missing something, or is this yet another feature of the application that I can’t test with the demo version?
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Hi, Ron. If you just transfer straight from the cards, are you not archiving your footage? If you are doing so in a separate step, you would benefit from using the Clip Browser. It does CRC error correction as it copies the clips, for one. It allows you to easily create and manipulate new BPAV folders, too. I’m a backup neurotic, so the idea of not archiving anything makes my eyelid twitch.
By the way, archiving the files you convert from the raw BPAV folders is NOT the correct approach. There have been discussion threads ad nauseam on this forum, outlining why that’s exactly the wrong thing to do. If you backup only the converted Quicktimes and later on have to make MXF for Avid or something, you’re in for a more painful conversion process.
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You can use the Clip Browser to create new BPAV folders and copy/move the raw clips in between them, keeping metadata intact. Everybody’s workflow is different, but maybe this might be handy for you on some level. I’ve done this to combine BPAV folders for organizational purposes, and I’ve also used its built-in folder split function to make several DVD-sized BPAV folders from one gigantic one. Maybe you’ve already done this.
I messed around with the whole idea of renaming clips and/or trying to get comments or notes to stay with the file en route to Final Cut Pro. In some cases it worked; however, as soon as I removed that BPAV folder as an available source from XDCAM Transfer, all the data I put into those clips disappeared. It turns out it was only stored as cached information for the XDCAM Transfer application, and not added to the metadata in the BPAV folder. Boy, was I ever disappointed. If there’s one remaining feature I wish Sony would add, that’s got to be it right there.
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We’re in the process of starting just that. We have a PDW-U1 on the iMac used to organize and catalog our footage. We started with DVD while awaiting the firmware upgrade but now will be using the unlocked data capabilities of the XDCAM discs as a (hopefully) more durable backup medium. We keep our stuff online so this will just be for archival backup.
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I just sat an EX-1 on my desk and ran through two new 16gb RED Transcend cards. No problems on either one using MxR adapters.
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