[Jason Lyons]

XDCAM HD (35Mb/s VBR) = approx. 15.5 GB/hour X 4000=62.0TB

[Jason Lyons]

[Craig Seeman] “Doesn’t Sony XDCAM Transfer Tool support the import of proxies into FCP?”

No. The transfer tool imports proxies only to Sony’s XDCAM Transfer tool. Once the proxy is loaded into XDCAM Transfer you can then make subclips, name clips, add metadata etc, then when you import XDCAM Transfer loads the actual full resolution XDCAM(HD) footage as shot.

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I agree with Mark there are definitely reasons to edit with proxies, namely working with large libraries of footage. It seems that with XML being the common denominator here, that an elegant offline-online workflow could be achieved with minimal effort… but then again I have no idea – I don’t write code.

j

[Jason Lyons]

A bit of a confession… I failed to keep it simple… Copying the disc’s contents works just as well as cloning in half the time. Has anyone had any long term regrets about backing up or making a second master source disc to a hard drive?

j

[Jason Lyons]

Success! Carbon Copy Cloner does the trick… But it takes a while.
Updated system info from previous post – I had to move to a different machine because of an edit.

Ingredients:
2.4 Ghz iMac Aluminum or other suitable computer.
Sony’s PDW-U1 XDCAM HD reader.
Maxtor Firewire 400 drive
Carbon Copy Cloner
2 hours for a 50 GB disc.

Directions:
1) Download CCC ( https://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html )
2) Mount the XDCAM disc
3) Open CCC – Select XDCAM disc as source
4) From the Target Disk Menu – choose “New Disc Image”
5) Navigate to your destination drive & Name the Image
6) Make sure the option under Additional disk image options is set to “Create a read-only disk image
7) Make sure the pull down menu for Cloning options is set to “Backup Everything”
NOTE- “Erase the target volume should be greyed out, if not make sure it is not selected.
8) Hit the clone button in the lower right
9) Coffee break and a good time to donate to bombich software for the Reallllllly nice tool! (BTW I am not affiliated with them, wishin I were that smart!)

I am cloning to a new hard drive, freshly formatted Mac Extended. After the cloning process completed I was able to double-click in the image and either wait for it to verify or skip verification and the disc appears on your desktop just as if you had just inserted it into a drive/deck. Next, I opened XDCAM transfer software I simply had to “Add Source” under the file menu. The tool started making proxies just like normal. I imported a few test files into FCP.

At this point the only drawback is the cloning time – right at 2 hours for a 50 GB disc.

Live on!
j

[Jason Lyons]

Ah.. well its slightly comforting seeing that Im not the only one stumped here.

Im giving Carbon Copy Cloner ( https://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html) a try. I’ll post the results, so far so good except USBlllllaaaaaahhhh.

Details:
XDCAMHD Disc with 36.5 Used.
Reading from a PDW-U1 via USB (cough cough)
At 10 minutes = 4.26GB to external via FW800. System is a trusty Dual G5 2Ghz.

Later
j

[Jason Lyons]

OK, I had the same issue of moving projects from machine to machine and had a handful of pesky clips that would not relink. Matter of fact they had amnesia and didn’t know what file they should be linking to… YIKES very scary as I have several subclips, which oddly enough had also lost the relationship to their master clips. What the heck! So after reading this post, I backtracked and simply recopied the project over to my system and this time everything relinked. I suppose it is possible for the project file to be just corrupt enough to still open, but forget a few links?

Oh well. I guess all that to say try copying your project file over again and relinking.

Good luck!
j

[Jason Lyons]

Thanks for the input!
j

[Jason Lyons]

Wow I can’t believe you’ve had good results capturing this way! Hmmm… I can report marginal results from long ago playing back DV video over GigE, sharing a mounted RAID 0 on a 1TB DAS, (Poor mans SAN), but never Uncompressed 10-bit! Yikes!

If you were to connect the MacPro and XServe directly via Fibre, is there even a protocol to initiate communication? Good question. If you could, are the drives RAID’ed together on the XServe?

Are your MacPro drive slots fully populated? If not, to quickly get you past this project buy some internal drives and RAID them 0, export a QT of your final piece to your new internal RAID and output from your internal drives.

Time for a new HD system – must be Spring…

j

[Jason Lyons]

How much free space do you have on the hard drive your project is located? Sounds like it may be very full.

Have you tried the Save Project as… function? If not, try it – and try saving it to another hard drive.

Also, it is not abnormal to find copies of your project in the trash if you are using the Autosave feature. You will know they are from Autosave if they have a long string of numbers after the project name. This corresponds to the Date and Time the Autosave was written.

So on the brighter side of things, you may want to check the Autosave location for recently saved projects and see if any of them look close to the time around your system started acting up. If you can verify an autosaved project on or around the time you experienced the problem then I would try saving it to another drive, then try deleting some files from your main hard drive (to make at least 5-10% free space) if possible, then restart. You may have a lot of virtual memory usage on your hard drive that needs to be released – I’ve found this occurs when you havent restarted in a while.

If you have ample free space on your drive, then you may want to once again save off any version of your project you can find, then restart and run disk first aid, repair permissions, and if you have it Disk Warrior.

Hope this helps
j

[Jason Lyons]

I have experienced problems with OMF’s with disabled media that have enabled transitions attached to them. Might want to zoom in and check for disabled media around any fades..

Hope this helps
j