Greg Ondera
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Yes, I still say don’t reformat. Drag your BPAV folder as is onto another drive before you start messing with the card. Do not take or manipulate anything in the BPAV folder. You can go look in the CLPR folder and see what mpg4 files are in there and double click on them to see if what you are missing is there. Each take should be in its own folder.
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Yikes! Don’t reformat it. There was a recent post that had the same problem with an interesting solution, but I don’t remember where that is.
Could it be that the clip is spanning onto another card? If so, then include both cards int he Transfer. But it sounds like you’re not even at that stage yet, and the content is all on one card.
I’m not much of a help here, but I wanted to get to you before you start reformatting.
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Never use a fan-less hard drive for editing! Notice how blazing hot it is getting? If you don’t have your footage backed up, then I would do that right now. Fan-less drives can blink out with no notice, and if you use it for editing, then you are killing the drive. Always use a fanned drive for editing because you are whirling that thing constantly. I do indeed use these fan-less hard drives but only to transfer footage from the field to editing dives. They are tremendously handy for that.
There is also a case for planning for redundancy and using a RAID 5 mirrored hard drive system so that you have backed up your footage.
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Corruptions! I have run into this many times and I fully agree with you on wmv files. They can sometimes work and most often they are awful. I suggest making a tape of the program and re-batching the edited program and making codecs from that. If you’re using Final Cut it will get buggy and more buggy and soon you will have to trash your preferences because of these files, which is no big deal, but soon you may not even be able open up the FCP file. I’ve had this happen. Making a tape and re-batching may be a mindless work-around, but on those sleepy nights when you need to get that thing out the door and you don’t need another obstruction, you may as well eliminate the unseen obstacle.
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You might see if Calibrated has something you can use <https://www.calibratedsoftware.com/>.
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I just wanted to chime in about Compressor. I have been reading that Compressor is not the best encoder to use for H.264, but that Episode and Squeeze are better. In fact I am looking at some compared examples now in a PDF. I know it is a little off subject, but does this sound right to you experts out there?
Greg Ondera
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An alternative is for you to also use Windows on the Mac, but never ever use the Windows side of things to go on the internet because that is where all the bugs come through.
I do not use Windows, but I do indeed use my Mac for both personal and pro work and Mac is the most stable platform no matter what. I just don’t have any trouble with FCP or any of the other software, but I should now knock on wood.
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Auto iris is at least not the end of the world if it is dark. I often use it as I have to in surgery, because I can’t often reach the cameras which are on boom arms. I certainly don’t do this when I can have full control of the camera. And if I shoot an open wound case, in which auto iris will flutter and adjust when white surgical gloves come into the scene, I will most certainly use manual iris.
If the footage is dark then take it into FCP and use the 3-way color corrector to raise the exposure level as you would in photoshop. What is unforgiving about digital exposure is when you shot overexposed. And in principle, only underexposed footage can be brightened, but overexposed cannot.
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You need the Driver <https://www.sony.ca/promedia/drivers.htm> but get Browser and Transfer while you’re at it if using FCP <https://www.sony.ca/xdcamex/software.htm>
Greg Ondera
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I must say that I have been a bit frustrated with Sony for not marketing and teaching XDCam workflow better. The best information I got in the beginning was from Doug Jensen and Vortex Media DVDs. But I advocate using XDCam Transfer to get the BPAV folders into FCP. If you have a clip that spanned over to another card, then Transfer them all at once, so you see the spanned clips. Calibrated is good software, but since I often let the camera roll in surgery, I like those clips spanned over multiple cards into one long clip I can synch with other such clips.
Greg Ondera
http://www.Plexus.tv
http://www.SurgeonToday.org