Don Greening
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Ralph I sure hope you’ve been getting my emails and the Dropbox link because I haven’t heard anything from you for a couple of days now. I did start sending you stuff 3 days ago. Perhaps you’ll see this reply soon.
– Don
Don Greening
A Vancouver Video Production Company
Reeltime Videoworks
http://www.reeltimevideoworks.com -
Thanks for taking the time to post your solution, Mr. Stevens.
– Don
Don Greening
A Vancouver Video Production Company
Reeltime Videoworks
http://www.reeltimevideoworks.com -
When FCP starts acting weird the first thing to do is trash the preference files. There’s a free program at Digital Rebellion that will to this task for you called Preference Manager. You can find it at the link below.
https://www.digitalrebellion.com/prefman/
Try the program and see if this solves the colour issue.
– Don
Don Greening
A Vancouver Video Production Company
Reeltime Videoworks
http://www.reeltimevideoworks.com -
Could you be a little more specific? Are you saying that you did a software update to OS 10.9 Mavericks? If so then you’re in uncharted territory here because it’s recommended that you don’t upgrade if you’re using professional video editing software of any kind with this first version (10.9.0) of Mavericks. And this also includes the latest versions of Premiere Pro and Avid Media Composer. I think Lion was the last OS that was officially supported for FCP.
I’ve heard of some folks that have been using FCP 7 with Mavericks but are finding the reliability sketchy at best.
– Don
Don Greening
A Vancouver Video Production Company
Reeltime Videoworks
http://www.reeltimevideoworks.com -
If you want to contact me offline I can email you the MPEG 2 pkg. or upload it to Dropbox and send you a link to share that folder. I think I’ll also send you 2 files that are found in the application support folder for Final Cut Pro. They are:
SonyExportPlugin.bundle
SonyImportPlugin.bundleThe path for these files is:
Macintosh HD>Library>Application Support>Final Cut Pro System Support>Plugins.
If the 2 files mentioned above are not present let me know and I’ll email those as well. These folders are relatively small components in size so emailing or doing Dropbox is no biggie.
I still recommend getting the Calibrated Q MP4 EX component though which will allow you to edit the MP4 files natively within FCP 7.
email: info AT reeltimevideoworks DOT com
I’m also going to send Ian Cook an email and see if he’ll help troubleshoot this.
UPDATE: I just got an automated reply from Ian Cook’s email addy that he’ll be out of the office until tomorrow Nov. 5th.
– Don
Don Greening
A Vancouver Video Production Company
Reeltime Videoworks
http://www.reeltimevideoworks.com -
Well, it looks like we’ll have to get serious then.
From what you’ve described it sounds as if XDCAM Transfer has lost its link to the XDCAM EX family of codecs. These codecs reside within FCP 7 and not with XDCAM Transfer. Can you recall if you’ve made any changes recently to FCP 7 or to FC Studio 2 as a whole? If the EX codecs are still accessible by FInal Cut Pro 7 then they should still be available to XDCAM Transfer.
One of our resident COW contributors and Sony gurus is Ian Cook. He works for Sony and If anyone can figure out what your issue is he can. Heck, he probably helped write the code for XDCAM Transfer. Ian will probably be back here tomorrow (monday nov.4th).
In the meantime, there is a plugin that allows you to edit XDCAM EX files natively in FCP 7 and to view the video files directly within the Sony BPAV folder with programs such as CAT DV, Quicktime, etc. It’s called the Calibrated Q MP4 EX component and you can find it here:
https://www.calibratedsoftware.com/MP4EXImport_Mac.asp
I use it in CAT DV 10 and it works great. I think the price is around $150.00 USD. but at this point in time it might be worth it for you to buy.
If you could also satisfy my curiosity and search for a certain codec package on your startup drive to see if it’s there. The path is: Macintosh HD>Library>Receipts> QuickTimeMPEG2Pro.pkg.
If you can afford to wait another day please give Ian Cook a chance to have a crack at your problem.
– Don
Don Greening
A Vancouver Video Production Company
Reeltime Videoworks
http://www.reeltimevideoworks.com -
Compressor 4 will do a fine job and it’s only 50 bucks at the app store.
– Don
Don Greening
A Vancouver Video Production Company
Reeltime Videoworks
http://www.reeltimevideoworks.com -
I think the first thing you should try is to trash the preference files for XDCAM Transfer and for Quicktime.
The path is: Macintosh HD>Users>”yourname”>Library>Preferencescom.apple.quicktimeplayer.plist
com.sony.bprl.xdcamtransfer.plist
Some system maintenance:
- repair disk permissions using Apple’s Disk Utility
- download, install and run a free utility program like ONYX which will clean out any old or corrupt files.
- buy Diskwarrior (no editor should be without this) which will rebuild your startup drive’s directory.
Do only one of these tasks at a time in case one of them restores XDCAM Transfer back to working order, otherwise you’ll never know what fixed what.
See if any of this does the job for you. Regular system maintenance is hugely important.
https://www.alsoft.com/diskwarrior/
– Don
Don Greening
A Vancouver Video Production Company
Reeltime Videoworks
http://www.reeltimevideoworks.com -
You need a UV Protector filter for each of your cameras for everyday use. This filter will (obviously) protect the front lens element as well as offering a light UV filter for atmospheric haze. If I’m reading your Sony HXR-NX70E specs correctly the filter diameter is 37mm. so that will be your guide when ordering filters. This camera doesn’t seem to have any internal filters so you should consider getting a set of neutral density (ND) filters as well. They act like sunglasses for your camera. If space between the lens is at a premium then make sure the ones you buy will fit behind the lens hood. Companies like Tiffen make half thickness filters for certain cameras.
The PMW 200 has ND filters built in so all you need here is another UV protector. If the lens is the same as my EX1R then you’ll need a half thickness filter to squeeze in behind the lens hood. I use a Tiffen “77mm Wide UV Protector”. That’s all it says on the box and on the filter itself.
Here’s a link to some generic filter pictures that will give you a starting point for your filter purchases.
https://www.tiffen.com/filters.htm
– Don
Don Greening
A Vancouver Video Production Company
Reeltime Videoworks
http://www.reeltimevideoworks.com -
It was a reference to Dr. McCoy from Star Trek.
– Don
Don Greening
A Vancouver Video Production Company
Reeltime Videoworks
http://www.reeltimevideoworks.com