Don Greening
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[Robert Semeniuk] “Am I making this more complicated than it is? “
Maybe a little. You can make the clips you don’t want included in the first project “offline.” Right or Control-click one of the clips in Final Cut Pro’s Browser window and choose “make offline” from the pop-up menu. You’ll be presented with a few choices: Make offline but leave the media on the hard drive or make offline and move the media to the trash or make offline and delete from the hard drive. Choose the first option.
Create a new project and navigate to your “offline” clips by using the File>Import command from the Final Cut Pro menu. If you want, you can go to that particular folder before you create a new project (not by using any particular program) and create a new folder. The shortcut for that is Cmd-Shift-N (in the Finder). You can then drag and drop your EX clips from the first folder into the new one. Then start FCP and navigate to the new folder and do the File>Import thing again.
If you want to keep your render files, Audio Waveform cache, Thumbnail cache, etc. for the new project separate from the first one then go to the FCP menu again and click on System Preferences. Choose the new folder you just created in the Finder as the new destination for everything. You are now done.
BTW, if you ever need any help on stuff that is more Sony EX-specific drop into the Sony XDCAM-CineAlta Forum here at the COW. A large chunk of us EX shooters use Final Cut Pro anyway and we’re more than happy to help out a fellow EX owner.
Welcome to Creative COW, Robert.
– Don
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Hi Adrian,
Question 1: I’m pretty sure there’s a PDF manual for Clip Browser that is part of the package when you download the program. Or it could be on the software CD that ships with the camera. I can’t remember exactly where I got it but I do have it for Clip Browser v.1.0. You’ll have to decide whether you can use this particular version but if you want it I can email it to you if you respond within the next 2 hours. Otherwise I’m away for the rest of the day. My email is: greeningATshawDOTca. Meanwhile, you may have better luck getting the PDF for Clip Browser v.2 here:
https://www.sony.ca/xdcamex/support.htm
Question 2: [Adrian Vallis] ” For the SONY XDCAM TRANSFER TOOL software, is there any advantage to using it as a plugin within FCP as opposed to using it stand alone, creating the quicktimes and then dragging the folders containing the quicktimes from the browser into FCP.”
No advantage with doing it one way or the other. Sometimes if you use the Transfer Tool within FCP some of the clips may come in with duplicate filenames. Personally, I prefer to use the transfer Tool as a stand-alone app and then import the files into FCP by using the general File>Import command from the Final Cut Pro menu. It just depends on how you like to work.
[Adrian Vallis] “It seems to me that as the TRANSFER TOOL ignores the logging bin in FCP and just puts the files into the root directory of the browser”
Create a new bin in FCP’s Browser then double click to open it. Make sure it stays the active window, go to “File>Import”. Navigate to your clips and shift click all the ones you want, then import them. They’ll show up within the active (and open) bin window. Previously, before even starting FCP, when I use the Transfer Tool I’ll highlight certain clips depending on shooting category and choose a destination for those imported clips in the Transfer Tool Preferences. When when it comes time to import them into FCP the clips are already segregated into the proper folders. It’s better this way than being being presented with a ton of clips in one folder, all with numbered filenames when it’s time to transfer them to FCP.
– Don
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Hi Marianne,
I won’t be able to tell you why the clips came in squeezed because I’m not an Avid editor but I suspect it’s not an EXCAM or Clip Browser problem but an Avid thing. There has to be an easy way to change your clips from 4:3 to 16:9 within Avid somewhere by viewing the properties of a clip and flagging it as 16:9. You shouldn’t have to re-import anything.
If you right or control=click on a clip in Avid does a pop-up menu appear where you can view a clip’s properties? How about within the bin window where you can view all your media files? Can you view the clip’s properties there somewhere?
In Final Cut Pro there’s an anamorphic column where you can put a checkmark to flag a clip as widescreen. Avid has been around a long time so there has to be an easy way to change your clips to 16:9. You may be better off asking this question in the Avid forum here at the COW.
– Don
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Hi Rob,
Welcome to Creative COW.
I’m slightly confused:
[rob soucy] “So Im trying to transfer a clip that is marked incomplete.”
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[rob soucy] “I can watch the whole clip in the xdcam preview window “
You mean you can watch the entire “incomplete” clip but there’s more to the clip that you can’t watch. Am I on the right track here?
The clip is marked incomplete because your camera switched cards before you stopped recording this particular clip. In order to complete the clip you need to have the clips from the other card present in the transfer window. Once the program detects the presence of both of the clip pieces it will automatically join them and you can transfer/import the single clip to the .mov format for editing.
You can still transfer an incomplete clip by setting in and out points in the viewer window. This will create a new clip and convert just that portion to .mov format.
– Don
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Hi Kuhnen,
There’s an issue with the new Macbook Pro and Sony’s FAM driver. Sony’s aware of the bug and is apparently working on a fix. Here’s a previous thread on this topic:
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/142/860940
– Don
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Wow. Nice one, Andy. I’m going to have to check out this Calibrated Q thing for myself, as it may crop up again with someone else, and probably sooner rather than later.
– Don
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[Carol Breton] “I am wondering since I have seen stuff regarding Tiger and Panther, if maybe Leopard system isn’t compatable with compressor. “
That’s a possibility. I don’t have Leopard on any of my machines so I’ve never checked for compatibility issues between Compressor 2 and Leopard. But you can by going to the Apple site and check for minimum/maximum Final Cut Studio requirements specific to your setup.
I have OS 10.4.11 on my 2.7 Ghz G5 and Compressor 2.0.1 works fine on that. It also works fine on my Macbook Pro (Compressor 2.0.3) with the exact same OS version. My Mac Pro is using Compressor 3.0.2, again with OS 10.4.11.
Once you’ve determined if it is a version compatibility issue or not you’ll be better equipped to decide about staying with Leopard or going back to the latest version of Tiger. The reason I’ve never upgraded to Leopard is because I don’t have a need and my systems are very stable the way they are. Something to consider.
– Don
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[Craig Seeman] “It also says do NOT install their EX codec if you have FCP. That’s meant for playing back EX .MOV files on systems that do not have FCP.”
……and there you have it. Thanks, Craig for doing a bit more research than I was willing to do at the moment. I had a feeling Calibrated Q might’ve been an issue from helping a previous poster.
The moral of this story is to read the fine print before installing any third party software.
“Parts left out cost nothing and cause very few service problems.” – quote from a past president of GM and still true to this day.
– Don
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LOL! you made my day, Todd. Thanks for the giggles.
– Don