[Mark Fanjoy]

Okay, thanks for the reply. So I will continue with the knowledge that if FC can see the directory and displays files for any particular directory group, then it is displaying all of the available media within, whether single files, or paired as spanned files.

Thanks

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[Mark Fanjoy]

Shane, I’ve just discovered and learned the same thing about spanned files after pulling my hair out trying to figure out why there are more MXF files in my folder than appear in Log & Transfer.

Thank you. Now I get it. However, this leads me to a follow up question. Is there a key indicator/ID of sorts in FCP that identifies a file as being spanned?

My concern here is, I am working with unfamiliar media from the client and thus I cannot view the material and confirm all MXF files are being loaded and seen by Log & Transfer to be ingested.

Or based on the fundamentals of the MXF directory structures, is it even possible for an individual MXF file to be ignored/unseen by Log & Transfer?

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[Mark Fanjoy]

Yep, that’s what I’ve been doing is buying more drive space, and getting on my DIT’s butt about letting the cameras run long!

You are right, there is not much of a difference between using FC and Streamclip as for workflow. But there are a few nuances that cause some issues and is more time consuming in the long run. One example is, I have to create a unique QT file name when saving in FC, where Streamclip defaults to the current QT file name. May sound silly, but when jamming through thousands of files, that typing adds up vs dragging a clip to the Streamclip window, and saving.

But, at the end of the day, FC is proving to be the more integral way, and that is the priority bottom line.

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Rafael, thank you for the input. What you are describing is exactly what I discovered using Streamclip. I understand I can use my native XD Cam .mov files directly with FC. What I want to do is edit them in a similar fashion as Log & Transfer prior to bringing them into FCP. I want to remove the few seconds and minutes around selected takes, creating a new and smaller .mov file.

Maybe this will help. In a recent 3-camera shoot, my DIT let cameras run long before and after action takes. Thus, I ended up with about 800gigs of data, about 300gigs of garbage recorded.

If these were MXF files, I would simply run them through Log & Capture and create .mov files of only the material I want to work with in FC. But other shoot days, .mov XDCam files were created, and have similar garbage. From my knowledge, I cannot trim those unless I take each one into FC, set in/out points, and output as new smaller sized .mov files. Too much data to go through that process.

Streamclip acts as a viewer and quick in/out point editor, and is perfectly configured for this. BUT, it seems to be causing a color shift. So, I’m searching for something else, if it’s out there.

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[Mark Fanjoy]

Thanks, Jerry. Below is a snapshot of the native file settings. Can’t tell if my image is attaching so just in case: XDCam HD422 1080p30 50Mb/s (1920×1080).

The end use is broadcast, 16×9 letterbox SD, and HD. The content is women talking head testimonials, hair modeling, and other beauty shot B-Roll for a shampoo product. Editing in FCP7.

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[Mark Fanjoy]

No, I’m still in the same boat. Unfortunately, I think my question was too lame for this forum to bother with an answer! I searched the subject, but could find nothing.

I have all my project files in the same directory now, so I’ve just learned to search and find.

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[Mark Fanjoy]

Great advise, Shane. That’s the information I needed to tip the balance to the originals.

Thank you very much for taking your valuable time to guide me.

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Okay, thank you for taking the time to confirm what appeared to be the obvious to me, but wanted to make sure.

My desire for that info was to have the luxury of working within FC to view, sort, and “play” with various test shots and see those settings while I learned using this camera. But I can do this through ImageBrowser and the original footage.

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As you know, 7D media clips are accompanied by a .thm file with EDIT information from the camera (ISO, fStop, Shutter speed) valuable information that I can see when viewing the original clip in ImageBrowser.

However, and as you know, Log & Transfer ingests clips,converts them to a single QT file and ignores this companion .thm file.

My question/post was to verify if I was understanding this correctly and accept the fact that proceeding with this traditional FC conversion routine with 7D clips, that I would also have to accept losing the .thm file EDIT data (unless, of course I reference the info from the original clips via ImageBrowser).

Was hoping I was missing a FC import setting that would somehow “pick up” that companion file and merge the EDIT info into the single QT file.

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[Mark Fanjoy]

You will still need to convert them for editing in FCP

Understood, but I’ve been studying the clips I converted (Lightroom-to-MPEG Streamclip) since my original post earlier, and I can’t visually see any degradation in the video. So, I’m assuming from this, if MGEG Streamclip is an acceptable converter (to ProRes422LT)in this Forum’s opinion, then it’s the same end result (but with one extra step) as it would be using a card reader and FC Log & Transfer.

Agreed?

I also just learned converting the 7D clips to ProRes is tripling the file size. Gonna need another hard drive!

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