Daniel Wright
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When XDCAM Transfer (or Log and Transfer) converts to QT, it is only a re-wrap. The limiting factor tends to be the disc speed so it should hardly take any longer than copying the same file with Finder.
If you are mounting the cards from the camera over USB then this would account for the sluggishness you report. In that case, it might be better to copy the entire card over to your hard disc (with Clip Browser) and rewrap from there. It also helps if the card image is on a different hard disc from your import directory.
FWIW
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I’m presuming that you are looking at XDCAM Transfer’s ‘Installed Components’ window. This tells you what you need for *absolutely everything* to work. If you click on an item in the list, XDCAM Transfer tells you what its for below.
You don’t necessarily need to install everything in that list; you only need the XDCAM Drive software if you are using a PDW-U1.
HTH
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You could try importing your clip in pieces by removing the check from the SMI file at the top of the list on XDCAM Transfer’s logging tab and checking the subclips instead.
That way, you should get the clip imported in the 4GB chunks that it is recorded it. At the very least, this should help narrow down the problem.
HTH
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[Pasquale Tropea] “Please refer to the details from the context of each clip”
I wonder if that is supposed to mean ‘context menu’? Try right-clicking (or double clicking?) on the problem clip in the list. You may get some more information about what went wrong.
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I did a test by removing the .SMI file and found that XDCAM Transfer didn’t care; the clip played as normal. This would suggest that the missing .SMI file is not the only problem. Was the card removed before the light had gone green, perhaps?
You could try copying the .MP4 file into a folder and adding that folder to XDCAM Transfer. If that doesn’t work, then the .MP4 file itself must be broken.
In case you haven’t tried already, it might be worth putting the card back in the camera and seeing if you can play it.
HTH
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There is no ‘official’ solution for saving your subclip mark up made in XDCAM Transfer.
There are some possibilities, however.
If you are working only with Macs:
(1) You could save the database created by XDCAM Transfer. The path can be found by looking on the Cache tab in the preferences. You should find three folders there. Save the one containing the database and the one containing the thumbnails to the General folder of your disc. Don’t bother saving the proxies because XDCAM Transfer can make those again (‘Fetch Proxies’ from the disc’s context menu).On the other machine, copy the database and thumbnail folders out of the General folder into a folder somewhere sensible and then change XDCAM Transfer’s Cache path to point to there. You should then be able to see your mark up just as it was.
(2) Alternatively, you can use the Applescripts posted on this thread to save all your logging to a file and then retrieve it again.
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/142/870550#870581
If you want to see subclips made with XDCAM Transfer in Windows, then I’m not really sure. It’s easy enough to write the logging to a file (e.g Robert’s script) but then you need something on Windows that can show it. There may be a possibility with the PDZ-1 software but I don’t have much experience with it myself and I suspect this would be non-trivial.
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[Stephan Liehr] “”The clip thumbnail could not be saved to the cache as it was an unrecognised format.”
This sounds like you are using an old version of XDCAM Transfer on Snow Leopard. You need to download version 2.12.
[Stephan Liehr] ” But how do I manage to get one new clip out of the number of clips the camera devided my shot into?”
My comments in this post should answer your question:
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/142/873329[Stephan Liehr] ” there is one file, that’s supposed to be four minutes long”
Does it span onto another card?
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[Daniel Wright] “This means that all the clips from all sources, only the whole clip will be imported.”
[Richard Doyle] I don’t get what you mean. If you can elaborate, that would be great.”Sorry, loose connection between my brain and fingers. What I wanted to say was:
The default settings of these checkboxes are such that if you select all of the clips belonging to all of the sources and then click the Import button, only the whole clips get imported; there is no duplication as the individual parts are disabled.
Although it makes sense when you are aware of it, this behaviour sometimes causes newcomers problems. For example, if you mount cards one at a time from the camera then clips that span across cards never become available in their entirety and consequently they don’t get imported (unless you set the checkboxes to import the individual parts). That is probably why the recommended workflow is to copy everything off the cards first and then have all the cards online in XDCAM Transfer at the same time.
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Answers to a couple of your questions:
1. You only need the XDCAM Drive software if you are using a PDW-U1 for reading/writing optical discs.
2. The reason that the longest clip is not imported is probably because the check is removed next to the 16100056.SMI file in your ‘subclip dropdown.’ These checkboxes allow you to prevent clips from being imported if you do all your logging upfront then select all the clips and click Import.
The longest clip has been split into parts by the camera. This is because the card format is FAT 32, which only supports files up to 4 Gigabytes. XDCAM Transfer should import these as one clip *provided* all of the cards are available (which appears to be the case judging from your screenshots).
By default, the checkboxes for the parts(shown as subclips) are disabled, only the checkbox for the entire clip (represented by the SMI file) being enabled. This means that all the clips from all sources, only the whole clip will be imported.
Why you are seeing a ‘There may be insufficient disc space’ message, I am not sure. I have only seen this message when there is really not enough disc space. Maybe someone else has a suggestion for that.
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You can fix your problem by upgrading to the latest version of XDCAM Transfer, which is version 2.12 (read two-point-twelve, not two point-one-two). It is available from Sony Canada’s download page; they just haven’t updated the text to match.
This version supports lose MP4 files that have been unceremoniously ripped out of the BPAV folder structure, which is really where they should be.
Older versions (pre 2.9 ?) of XDCAM Transfer will not show lose MP4 files. The Log and Transfer plug-in does not support them unless they are in their BPAV folder.
HTH