[Ian Cook]

ok… but how is this different from what we’ve been doing and the screen recording I sent you?

-link the card/archive
-select all or select multiple
-Import into FCP

The button below the viewer is an ‘express’ import that automatically imports using the most recent settings, without a dialog box or a chance to change anything (like the ‘whole clip vs sub clip’ option). But in our tests and discussions we always used/referenced the menu option..

FCP 7 and FCP X have completely different architecture. There is no way around a basic preference selection for the one you are using.

So I’m not sure what is broken. But I’m glad you are back in business.

[Ian Cook]

The reason is that the decode time and edit performance for ProRes vs MPEG 2 and the other listed codecs is almost the same. It was Apple’s decision to disable this option for these formats.

[Ian Cook]

Thanks, Craig, I just saw this and was not aware until now that this was not a possibility

[Ian Cook]

negative…

[Ian Cook]

gotcha… i’m happy to walk you through anything you need to do but bear in mind (I know this has come up before) that Browser does not convert to ProRes, it just rewraps the file to a QuickTime in the original XDCAM codec. Maybe your Media 100 is converting to ProRes on import?

for what it’s worth all you need to do is highlight the clips you want, right/control-click and select Import Into Final Cut Pro. the converted .movs will go to the folder you set up as the destination in the preferences. done.

[Ian Cook]

No problem, check it when you can. I’ll continue to test with my own files. Screen shot of error is below.

[Ian Cook]

is it still uploading? i get an error saying the folder doesn’t exist.

[Ian Cook]

It is working with XAVC but for some reason not with XDCAM or XDCAM EX, either by preference setting or manually. Checking on this now. Stand by.

[Ian Cook]

Content Browser does the same thing and does so fairly easily; this is an oddball problem. A tutorial would only tell him to do something we know is currently not working for him. I know we all love Transfer but maintaining 5-6 different XDCAM applications was too much… Too many tools for users to have to deal with and too many applications to have to update and QA.

[Ian Cook]

For purposes of testing can you tell me if you are trying this only on archives created using XDCAM Browser or older Browser applications? The prefixes of your archives suggest XDCAM Browser (this is fine and should work; I’m just trying to reproduce your problem).

Please try creating a new archive as I suggested earlier and let me know if that works. If you could do this with a new clip that would be better.

1. Highlight a location (e.g. ‘Desktop’) in the top Explorer window and make a new folder there. call it TEST and make sure it is highlighted.

2. Go to the FILE menu and select IMPORT. Browse to an .mp4 on your SxS card or in your archive. The path will be [archive or media name]/BPAV/CLPR/[clip-named folder]/clip name.mp4. Import the file.

This will create a new BPAV with new clip/archive metadata in the TEST folder you created earlier. As soon as the process is done you can view this like any other archive in CB.

3. Select multiple files from the new archive–>Import Into FCP.

Please let me know..