[Gareth Sylvester-bradley]

You can get a QuickTime movie from SxS card with XDCAM Transfer 2.1 even when you don’t have the Apple codecs installed (which is probably why XDT says ‘No Image Available’).

Go to XDCAM Transfer > Preferences > General tab and select ‘Import clips with no installed codec’. As it says there, if the appropriate codecs are not installed you won’t be able to view or edit the imported movies on your computer – but you could send them to someone else!

[Gareth Sylvester-bradley]

I think the timecode overlay option in XDT was removed because QT Player now displays the timecode properly if the movie has a timecode track (and all proxy and hi-reso movies from XDT do).

> QuickTime 7.1.6 (https://www.apple.com/support/downloads/quicktime716formac.html) adds support for:
>
> – Timecode and closed captioning display in QuickTime Player

[Gareth Sylvester-bradley]

Have you actually tried running XDCAM Transfer with FCP 5.0.4? It might actually work… (Sorry if you’ve already tried!)

Maybe they only specified FCP 5.1.2+ because Apple added support for more codecs in 5.1.2 like ‘HDV – 1080p25’. And there were some useful bug fixes like the one for the Final Cut Pro 5: Unexpectedly quits after importing XDCAM Clips bug that caught several of us out before.

[Gareth Sylvester-bradley]

OK, html tables seem to confuse the COW, so here’s a plain text version:

Here is the list from the XDT User Guide with the FCP 6.0.1 Sequence Presets and their old FCP 5.1.4 names that XDT 1.1 expects to find.

FCP6                    FCP5
DV NTSC 48 kHz          (no change)
DV PAL 48 kHz           (no change)
IMX NTSC (30 Mb/s)      MPEG IMX 8-bit NTSC 

[Gareth Sylvester-bradley]

Launch XDCAM Transfer 1.1 (which for some reason Andy & I shorten to XDT) and click the Help > XDCAM Transfer User Guide menu item.

Here is the list from Section 8.1 with the FCP 6.0.1 Sequence Presets and their old FCP 5.1.4 names that XDT 1.1 expects to find.

FCP6	FCP5
DV NTSC 48 kHz	(no change)
DV PAL 48 kHz	(no change)
IMX NTSC (30 Mb/s)	MPEG IMX 8-bit NTSC

[Gareth Sylvester-bradley]

I posted a workaround for the IMX50 export problem here:

https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/142/855681?

Not sure that this solves the PDW-D1 problem at the top of this thread, since Martijn said that export had started successfully but bailed out at around 2%… That sounds like something different.

Martijn, what firmware does your PDW-D1 have? Does even a short IMX sequence with tones&bars fail to export in the same way? Or only your real sequences? Any other info might help one of us track down your problem.

[Gareth Sylvester-bradley]

I posted a workaround that should solve some of your problems on the CineAlta forum:

https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/142/855681?

[Gareth Sylvester-bradley]

Hi Wayne,

> I can’t even export to XDCAM IMX50 anymore, either!

Did you see an error message like this?

Export Failed
The preset ‘MPEG IMX 8-bit NTSC – 50 Mb/s – 48 kHz’ is not installed on this system

This would appear to be because the Sony XDCAM export plug-in expects to find the sequence presets with the names used in FCP 5.1.4 that was shipping when Sony shipped XDCAM Transfer 1.1.

Unfortunately Apple have renamed these in FCP 6, so you have to apply the following workaround until Sony release their next plug-in.

1. Go to Final Cut Pro > Audio/Video Settings… to bring up the Audio/Video Settings dialog.

2. Go to Sequence Presets tab.

3. Find and select the FCP 6 preset for your sequence.

In my example case, this is named ‘IMX NTSC (50 Mb/s)’.

4. Click the ‘Duplicate…’ button which brings up the Sequence Preset Editor dialog.

Change the name from e.g. ‘IMX NTSC (50 Mb/s) Copy’ to the name that Apple used in FCP 5.1.4, e.g. ‘MPEG IMX 8-bit NTSC – 50 Mb/s – 48 kHz’.

5. Click ‘OK’ and repeat step 4 for any other sequence presets you use.

Then click ‘OK’ to exit the Audio/Video Settings dialog.

6. Quit and restart FCP so that it loads the new sequence presets.

7. Export now works!

[Gareth Sylvester-bradley]

It sounds like you’ve tried a lot of the obvious troubleshooting, but you don’t say if you see any error messages, e.g. in the Transfer software, when the import stops?

Here’s one other thing to try:

Identify the clip you want to import and find its hi-res MXF file in the Clip folder on the disc in Finder. Try copying just that MXF file with Finder to a new folder on your local hard disk.

If that works, try adding the new folder in XDCAM Transfer, and importing the clip from there (you may not see a proxy in the Transfer software, but you should be able to import from the MXF on hard disk).

In either case, let us know what errors you see from the software, or Finder.

[Gareth Sylvester-bradley]

Dummyheads no longer –

QuickTime 7.1.6 (https://www.apple.com/support/downloads/quicktime716formac.html) adds support for:

– Timecode and closed captioning display in QuickTime Player

And it works with the XDCAM Transfer proxies (and full-quality movies).