Don Greening
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Hi Dave,
You need to have both cards’ media available in the Transfer Tool window before the spanned clip can be imported. You can do this two ways.
Copy the BPAV folders from both cards to a hard drive and then navigate to those two folders within the the Sony Transfer Tool app. Once the Transfer program sees the completed clip you can choose to import it to another folder in one shot. Keep the two BPAV folders unaltered and separated into two other folders, otherwise the first one will get overwritten by the second one.
Or you can use the EX as a deck connected to your computer via USB. Make sure both cards are mounted on the desktop and then launch the Sony Transfer app. The program will see the two cards along with the spanned clip and import it.
Hope this helps.
– Don
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[Steve Cohen] “Some one had suggested changing the name of the disk right on the Mac desktop. It won’t let me do that either. “
I haven’t worked with XDCAM disks but can you not change the name using the “Get Info” dialogue box? Highlight the disk icon and hit Cmd-I. See if you can change the name there. Just a thought.
– Don
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Keep in mind that you’re not limited to shooting at 60 fps with the EX. Since you’re shooting 24p why not overcrank @ 48 fps for a half speed slow-mo effect. This way you can drop your overcranked clips into your 24p timeline in FCP and it will play at 50% speed without any extra timing adjustments.
– Don
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Final Cut Pro 6.0.2 and newer has the EX codec that’s required to display and edit the footage from the EX1 and EX3 cameras. If the FCP sequence settings match the EX clip settings then there is no “render time”, if this is what you’re referring to. This means you can play back and edit transferred EX footage in real time right away. Adding effects to EX clips within FCP will result in the same type of rendering times as other Long GOP codecs.
– Don
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Zane is right. USB drives are fine for storing things but not for editing.
– Don
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I have two of these:
They’re a bit pricey if you pay full retail but they work okay as long as you don’t have to walk and shoot at the same time. If you do, you have to pull the waist pad away from your body with your thumb first. Lots of adjustments on the brace, though.
– Don
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[Alessio Gemma] “I select it and I paste (ALT-V) the settings copied previously… but it doesn’t work… the clip remains 4:3… “
When you hit “Option-V” to paste the attributes a window will come up with all the different parameters available for pasting onto your destination clip. In your case, where you want to change the scale and/or motion parameters you need to make sure there’s a check mark next to those attributes before you click OK.
Have a look at Martin Baker’s excellent tutorials:
https://www.digital-heaven.co.uk/podcast/
View his 2 podcasts entitled Pasting Attributes 1 and 2.
– Don
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Let me know how things work out. After you’ve pasted the attributes you can still slide individual widescreen clips from side to side in the timeline to keep important bits in frame.
– Don
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OKay. You can drag first 16:9 clip into an SD 4:3 timeline. If the sequence is still empty FCP will ask if you want to change the sequence settings to match the clip settings. Just say no. FCP will automatically letterbox and pillarbox the clip. Double-click the clip in the timeline to load it into the Viewer. Make sure “Image and Wireframe” is active. In the Viewer drag the corner of the clip until the top and bottom of it fills the 4:3 frame. This will create a centre-punch of your widescreen clip.
Hit Cmd-C to copy the clip’s attributes to the clipboard. Drag the rest of your widescreen clips into the sequence, highlight them all and hit Option-V to paste the first clip’s scale attributes onto all the other highlighted 16:9 clips.
Hope this helps speed things up for you.
– Don
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[Elysia Cryer] “So, there’s nothing I can do to recover what I’ve already done?”
Convert your .avi files to .mov files first. Then make what you’ve already done “offline” in the sequence and then replace with the converted files. You’re edits should remain in place but will now be accessing the converted files.
– Don