[Hilary Koob-sassen]

My darling Craig,
thank you for your help, and please forgive my inability to stitch it all together: Is this correct order of opps then for the low budget EX-1 and Powerbook G4 user:

“IN THE FIELD”

1) plug EX-1 into usb of power book G4 17″ or card into usb reader into usb of power book G4 17″.

2) make a series of sequentially numbered folders on the desktop

3) once the sxs card has mounted (become visible) onto the desktop, drag the BVAP folder into its own discrete numbered folder.

4) delete the BVAP folder from the card and empty the trash.

5) insert card into camera and continue recording.

“BACK AT THE STUDIO”

6) connect powerbook G4 to G5 2.5 Quad Desktop via firewire 800, and transfer the sequentially numbered folders to the archiving disk. copy again to the working disk.

7) Open XDTransfer and click “ADD DEVICE”

8) Select the first of the sequentially numbered folders !!!??????OR THE BPAV FOLDER INSIDE????!!!.

9) Repeat steps 7) & 8) for each of the sequentially numbered folders.

10) XD transfer will automatiically “import” (ie change wrapper to .mov) from these folders in the same way that it does from an sxs card in the camera, just much faster.

Is that right? could you disambiguate 8) please?

I thank you very very much for your help,
Hilary

[Hilary Koob-sassen]

Hallo,
I wish you could detail your setup…
did you use xdcam transfer?
what op sys, what fcp, etc.
sony card reader, yes… but please, the details, and what files did you open in VLC?

[Hilary Koob-sassen]

but with a mac?

[Hilary Koob-sassen]

A clarification of what one can do with a G4 powerbook and an EX-1 would be great. Otherwise it seems that built into the cost of an EX-1 is a macbook pro or alot of sxs cards.

I think that because it won’t handle final cut 6 and xdcamtransfer, you cannot really “transfer” the video onto the G4 powerbook as .mov, but only drag it on as an unusable store. This Bpav folder would need to be put back onto the camera and then recaptured on at least a G5 capable of fcp6 and xdcamextrans, true?

In short, is it true that the G4 is relatively useless to the EX-1 user?

longing for PRO CLARION CLARITY ON THIS!
Thanks, Hilary

[Hilary Koob-sassen]

Hi,
I had dragged 5 EX1 BPAV folders direct to my laptop. I finally gave up trying to import these directly into xdcamtransfer and instead carefully re-dragged them onto formated sxs cards via the usb. then I recaptured onto my desktop using the xdcam transfer. This took a long time (onto camera and then back off) but it worked. make sure you keep the bpav folder system as the ex-1 creates it. Then just treat it like a finniky sd card.

hope this helps.
Hilary