[Ian Cook]

Heather,

All you should need to get the card to mount properly is v 1.04 of the driver. You mentioned an icon in the taskbar– does it give you choices for ‘memory card’ and ‘power off card’ or something to that effect, with ‘memory card’ grayed out? Does your MBP have an I7 processor? If so there may be a compatibility issue; we’ve received a number of reports of issue with the SxS driver not working properly with these laptops. Let me know if any of this sounds familiar..

Ian

Ian Cook
Sony Broadcast and Professional Company

[Ian Cook]

Hi Dale,

Do Clip Browser 2.6 or XDCAM Transfer 2.12 recognize it as a valid MP4? If you have issues here, try manually importing the MP4s using Clip Browser. To do this highlight the location where you’d like the files to reside (e.g. ‘Desktop’) in one of the Explorer Windows in Clip Browser and then select File–>Import and browse to the mp4s. (If you refine the search in the Import window to mp4s you should be able to see and import all of them at once.) If it’s only the metadata that’s been compromised this will rebuild the meta based on what’s in the actual .mp4.

Do let us know..

Ian

[Ian Cook]

Yes, the ‘lite’ (i.e. MP4 import-only) version of Cinemon will be available within the next month or two. The initial release was delayed. There should be a trial version up soon, prior to the release version. I’m told it will be a 30 or 60 day trial.

[Ian Cook]

Actually the Log and Transfer plugin rewraps to mov using the native codecs in FCP. It does not transcode. The HDV L+T plugin will convert to a selectable ProRes codec but there is no prefs menu to change codecs for EX. You’ll need to use Compressor, Media Manager or do an SDI ingest directly to ProRes. (See clip ‘Test 2’ below..)

[Ian Cook]

XDCAM Browser 1.0 should be posted this week or next. There will be a free base version with 2 options– a codec pack from Main Concept (as with Clip Browser) and a chargeable bundle of added features. Many of the key features in the add-on pack will be XDCAM optical features such as Live Logging and support for Clip List EDLs.

The GUI and workflow will be familiar to anyone who’s used Clip Browser. FCP users will see an Export for Final Cut Pro (or, specifically, “Register for Final Cut Pro”) option in the Right Click and FILE menus. This re-wraps the .mp4s or .mxfs for FCP. One thing of note for FCP users is that XDCAM Browser imports are a foreground process. This may change in a future release.

[Ian Cook]

Hi Ronnie,

v1.10 is required for SDHC and SxS-1 cards.

If you are at 1.10 or higher your firmware version info is available in menu–>Others. If you are below 1.10 you need to access the maintenance menu (Menu + Rotary wheel + Cancel) and look in IF (Information)–>VERSION.

Cheers,

Ian

[Ian Cook]

On the camera itself you have control over the file names (created using a title prefix such as Julie_ with an advancing numeric), Shot Marks (time code markers you can punch in using the assignable buttons) and Status Flags (clip specific markers added in playback/media mode).

You can also use the Sony Clip Browser app to add/change metadata. In Clip Browser you can add Clip Titles, Comments and additional markers. You can also annotate the text associated with those markers. The Sony XDCAM Transfer plugin for FCP also allows you to add some of these fields.

Avid and FCP support most of this metadata. File names, Clip Titles, Comments, Markers and shot flags all come across into either app.

In Avid for example, you’ll see the following:

Source/Volume name, File Name, Status Flag, Clip Title, Comments and Shot Marks (Shot Marks get translated into Locators)

In FCP, you’ll see:

Source/Volume name, File Name or Clip title, Comments, Shot Marks (Shot Marks get translated into Edit Markers…you can also use XDCAM Transfer to divide master clips into sub clips based on the position of the Shot Marks)

Hope this helps..

Ian

[Ian Cook]

Hi Fred,

Please check the cable you are using. CCU-M5 will output camera video or color bar signal only when the camera is connected and detected. CCU blinking panel active light indicates no camera communication.

DXC-930 & CCU-M5 are joined together through CCTZ-3RGB or CCTZ-3YC cable (20 pin male to 26 pin male) connected to Cable extension adaptor CCZZ-1E to CCZA cable (26 to 26 pin) or through CCTQ-3RGB cable (20 pin male to 14 pin male) using cable extender 14 to 14 pin CCQQ-1 to CCQ-AM cable.

Hope this is helpful. If you need additional support please call our tech support group at 800/883-6817 (M-F, 9AM-8PM EST) and hopefully they can assist.

Best,

Ian

Ian Cook
Sony Broadcast and Professional Company

[Ian Cook]

Hi Julie,

Are you looking for specific fields that may be supported by Avid, FCP or other software, or just a list of what types of metadata the camera and/or format supports?

It’s a tricky question because the camera records a number of different types of metadata but some of them are not read or supported by other apps (for example, most of the Real Time metadata such as camera settings; these are stored frame-by-frame in the clip’s .BIM file but as far as I know Sony Clip Browser is the only app that can read them). As far as Non-Real Time metadata (usually what people are talking about….this includes descriptive info like Titles and Comments) the format supports unique file names, clip titles, clip comments/descriptors, markers and other fields. If you could provide more info on what you’re looking for I could probably provide a more concise and useful answer..

Cheers,

Ian

Ian Cook
Sony Broadcast and Professional Company

[Ian Cook]

Hi Jim,

Yes, there’s a USB ‘B’ type connector on the right side of the camera handle.

Best,

Ian