[Ian Cook]

https://f1.creativecow.net/file/1473/1473_imx4x24.ini.zip

[Ian Cook]

I was able to get this to work successfully using the attached settings. Can you try an export using the attached Main Concept template? The U1 had no problem writing these to disc..

If this fails we may need to have Adobe take a look at a short sample file to help us determine of some errant information is being placed in the file header or elsewhere. Our tech office does not have a hex editor or anything comparable. The files you sent me will play in the dedicated Sony MXF player but they hiccup and stutter continuously. None of the machines will write these to disc and the FTP daemon on the HD-1500 keeps returning a ‘rec format unmatched’ error, which means there’s probably something slightly out of spec with the files…

[Ian Cook]

this one fails as well with ‘rec format mismatched’ error when trying to FTP to a PDW-HD1500. i have a feeling there is something wrong with the file Premiere is encoding. i will need to test on my end with an export from our CS5 system. there was a bug in CS5 that affected certain exports but I believe that was already addressed. stand by..

[Ian Cook]

Can you send me a short sample file that’s IMX50 with 4 x 24 or 8 x 16? Also could you briefly step me through your export? File–>export, select MPEG2 MXF, etc etc

Thanks

[Ian Cook]

The file has 4 channels of 16 bit audio. I think this is probably the issue. IMX formats must have 4 channels of 24 bit or 8 channels of 16 bit. The U1 can work some magic with the channel counts on certain formats but can’t do 16/24 bit conversion. Can you try again with 4 x 24 or 8 x 16?

[Ian Cook]

What if you export locally and then try to manually copy the file to /clip?

C0001 etc file names are the default names for XDCAM files. The ‘Free Naming’ setting allows you to use arbitrary names.

If you’d like to send me a short sample file to check out here on my system, let me know.

[Ian Cook]

Is Rhozet exporting a file with a C*** name, while Premiere is exporting a file with the sequence name? You need to enable Free Naming on the drive (in the Utility app) in order to send it anything with a non-canonical file name. Can you check this?

[Ian Cook]

Does the drive itself show as read-only or just the Clip, Sub etc folders? It’s normal for these folders to be restricted. Are you able to export sequences in other codecs from Premiere?

[Ian Cook]

Do you have the driver installed? If the U-1 is always in read-only mode, how do you write from Vegas? Are you working from multiple systems?

Latest driver can be found here:

https://www.servicesplus.sel.sony.com/sony-software-model-PDWU1.aspx

Afterwards use the bundled utility app to upgrade the firmware on the U1 (firmware is included with the utility; you don’t need to download anything else).

[Ian Cook]

If you record via SDI from an external source on, for example, an EX30 set to external regen, and the source happens to have broken TC, the clip created on the EX card will have TC breaks. This can happen if you are going from an XDCAM optical disc created with Clip Continuous and Free Run enabled (see above post) or if the source is an HDCAM or HDCAM SR tape with TC breaks.